It is called. "Eugenics". Something which should have been dustbinned in the past.
A timely reminder of the continued disaster inflicted on New Zealand, by ideological zealots in the 80's and 90's, as we have a Government hell bent on doubling down on it. New Zealand's low productivity, diminishing balance of trade/capital flows, and ...
Disaster Capitalism. Deliberately underfund to fuck up the public system. To justify replacing it with private, for profit, corporate raiders.
wouldn't have required any infrastructure upgrade at all. The infrastructure is decades old and requires upgrading and earthquake proofing. Nationals fuckup is going to end up costing many times more. More ships are more costly to run. Two full size ...
A member of the "ruling class" gets winged and everybody is pontificating on how terrible it is. How many ordinary peoples lives have they blighted or ended? Little concern about the deaths in the USA from those who cannot afford medical care or shootings ...
100's of millions. Given his denial of AGW. Billions!
"Proto fascist". No. Just a common or garden fascist. Then we get to the point. If someone had killed Hitler, would the world have been saved a lot of grief?
And. Pigs might fly. Meanwhile. In the real world. Employers offer part time uncertain "on call" work with irregular hours. Random on call 365 days a year without compensation is the norm, not an outlier. Few like job share arrangements. The chances of a ...
Having seen many people trying, and failing, to find jobs that fit in with having children and the need for childcare. Even more impossible with a special needs child that gets expelled from daycare. Jobs like that, are like Unicorns. Not to mention the ...
Where do you find part time regular hours jobs? Under your hat?
So much bullshit is flying around from the ignorant, that i'm reserving comment until I hear from people that actually were there. You will note that Master mariners, have been conspicuous by their absence in the "chatter" ! We know that accidents/...
Sunny. Another fucking idiot. Will fit in well with the current coalition of clowns.
Key and Luxon at least had successful careers before they entered Parliament. LOL. That is an arguement against letting people into power that have had "successful careers before entering Parliament". As both of these examples show, their only skill is ...
Only because UK Labour has abandoned ant pretense of being in any way a left wing party. Corbyn and anything which will freighten the establishment horses has been purged.
Tell me? What percentage of Māori in Northland, had jobs, food and adequate housing in Northland in 1959, compared to 2023?
Like they get with free prescriptions eh?
Only absentee landlords, Cockies and cookers voting in the Pakeha roll?
There is. But no procedure/training, can solve several tens of thousands of tons losing power or steerage at the wrong moment. Anything mechanical can break down. Ships do have duplicate and emergency steering, and emergency power generation for it, but it...
Log ships go there. Much less manoeuvrable, and much less reserve power than ferries.
I've seen some really stupid shit about the ferries over the last 24 hours. This however, comes close to winning the prize!
The ferry problems, and past problems with infrastructure during the earthquakes and floods highlights the fragility of our transport links. Showing the need to support coastal shipping in general. We currently have only two NZ registered container ships. ...
"Savings in back office staff" is already showing in education. Tightened criteria for help such as Teacher aids is already apparent. Oh well. The increase in kids without hope for their future will reap huge profits, for NACT's privatised prison owners, ...
Ships, like any other machinery, have mechanical breakdowns. Obviously the older they are, breakdowns are more likely. Exacerbated in many cases by the "screw costs down" to increase management bonuses, mentality.
Yes. Someone "in charge" apart from the bunch of idealogically destructive and ignorant vandals currently in Government would be good.
The costs of the new ferries, along with the related infrastructure were horrendous. Absolute rubbish. It may appear "horrendous" in the fever dreams of right wingers. Not compared with the ongoing costs of continuing with aging ferries and terminals that...
That is now wealthy boomers children.
As over 40% of boomers are getting to retirement without owning a house. And many more still with a mortgage on retirement, as well as having to help out kids. Including those who were "reformed" in the 80's and 90's and never managed to accumulate capital...
It seems that cleanup costs have exceeded royalties.
TV prices would have dropped as technology improved, wherever they were made, so prices then and now is not a valid comparison. Even now there are technologically efficient NZ designers and manufacturers successfully competing world wide. Now, NZ below ...
National's "plan" to sort the mess out" is to spend many more billions on roads, which have a worse cost benefit ratio when everything is taken into account, including environmental and opportunity costs, than upgrading the ferries to serve for at least 30...
Legacy of the great tax swap, where tax on high incomes, inheritances and unearned gains was decreased, and GST and income tax on median incomes and below, increased! We will see a repeat today, no matter how they dress it up with spin. Low income earners,...
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