Appropriations specifically for children should not be being used for other purposes.
My main point wasn't about child poverty, it was do what works and people will support you. Of course poverty and child poverty are related but that doesn't mean we can't treat them separately.
In my mind a child living in poverty is something completely different to poverty in general.
It's not a matter of is it palatable to the left, right or centre, it's a matter of does it work or is it just another waste of resources. If the Ardern government are successful at removing child poverty they would win support from every political quarter...
We on the left should know the deal. Without a serious reworking of capitalism, risky for a small nation like NZ to undertake, the structural inequality embedded within society that we seek to remove will remain. Short of this all that can be done is ...
Kiwis aren't gullible. So they won't elect some privileged woman like JC who just makes stuff up to get her own way or win an argument. Americans however...
These are pretty basic mistakes Goldsmith is making such as not double checking if he's double counting and not checking if something is just pencilled in or is an actual spend etc. The tories are talking Goldsmith up as the next Roger Douglas, somehow I ...
Well there is positive liberty ie what good is freedom of the press if you can't read, and negative liberty which is what libertarians peddle. If you don't have some sort of feel for basic scientific facts, and many people don't, then you become ...
Never before in the history of humanity have so many human brains solved so little.
Trump/Pence or Biden/Harris? A soulless choice for a soulless nation. Makes me grateful I'm a New Zealander.
Jacinda and Labour have got a lot of media coverage from this virus crisis. These latest polls just go to show where the National Party's true support level would usually be, if they didn't have all this mainstream tory media constantly banging on on their...
There do seem to be a number of these lower functioning, easily decompensating types in the National Party. But I guess that's unsurprising from a party that champions privilege. It is a bit of a convenient get off my back excuse to say that your mental ...
Trying to win a theoretical argument about whether fiscal spending expands or contracts an economy is not the same thing as winning an election. This seems lost on the tories.
I'd give the government a better mark than perhaps they with typical kiwi modesty give themselves. Day to day life is returning to normal, demand is returning to the economy, the virus is eliminated though still a threat and adequate support systems are in...
What sort of dick collects American political memorabilia. Oh, that's right he's in the National party, that would explain it. I'm definitely getting rid of my MANGA, make angry nats go away, hat as I'm not sure of it's meaning or cultural context.
I don't think Jacinda has too much to worry about with this Muller guy. I saw him go after Davis. He came off as too aggressive to me. He will have to tone it down a heck of a lot and even then he probably won't be able to hide his true colours. Kiwis ...
Ardern up, Bridges burning. The hardest game to win is a won game. Now the tories know what it felt like for us under the smug rule of the smiling assassin. I still think you need at least some hair on your head to win an election, but that's a tale for ...
Since about September 2019 the stock markets became more volatile responding to liquidity issues in the financial sector. Initially for the first couple of months January/February of the covid 19 threat becoming apparent the markets didn't respond. They ...
Hi neoliberal capitalism meet my good friend reality. Imagination, humans are too neurotic for that. So a shopping list, a critique of something that doesn't need critiquing or a long winded story about something similar will just have to do. A crisis of ...
This is as bad as it gets. I'm sure Ardern and her government know they have to front foot this. All we can do now is lessen the damage and impact of the fall to New Zealand. Fortunately our Government and our Reserve Bank have a bit of ammo to fight this ...
Biden is dodgy going by his record, a pushover and probably past it. Sanders moves the dial too far to the left to be electable. Warren is a charlatan. Trump is a big bag of wind who talks a big game on trade and immigration but is essentially a harmless ...
Well, that doesn't sound right or just. I'm sure there's a sensible solution to the problem you pose. As good a critique as it is I don't think it's Marxism though.
UBI, next you'll be telling me that you want a universal complex income. We on the left are playing checkers while our opponents are playing chess. But then those have always been the odds when you're from the wrong side of the tracks. Dig deep.
So you accept a certain amount of big money corrupting influence over the political process in return for not having to pay for and hear political campaign opinions you find unintelligible. Personally I think that would be one of the better ways for my ...
It is usually conservatives who are most against the public funding of political parties in the name of fairness. So it is they who should have the least to crow about if their opponents appear to breach private donations laws.
I don't think ruling out working with NZF will gain the tories any votes or make it easier for them to sink NZF. Everyone knows that if they needed Peters after the election and he gave them the nod they would jump in bed with him quicker than I can say ...
Oh well, that's nice for you Soimon. That would account for your flexibility with the truth. I'm trying to rack my brains to remember the last decent idea to come out of that particular school.
What law school did you say you went to again Soimon?
Australia, maybe when you've had a few of your own people burned alive until death by Mother Nature, you might want to have a look at your climate change policy.
Scott Morrison's attitude reminds me of an old Michael Jackson lyric, "they don't really care about us."
Not going far enough or fast enough. Well there are factors constraining them. I'd rather they were in government and doing something rather than out of it and doing nothing. Broadly they are following left principles of democracy, liberty, community and ...
An Australian solidarity group for West Papua today warned of a fresh “heavy handed” Indonesia crackdown on Papuan villagers with more “arrests and torture”.
Joe Collins of the Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) gave the warning in the wake of the deployment of 30 elite ...
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