Good, glad to hear it.
Great, Micky. You can criticise your party when it comes to their housing policy and even say they got it wrong with the CGT. But the cost of housing being capitalism's end game? Pray tell, where have you been in all the recent discussions here about ...
We are? https://healthcentral.nz/elderly-kiwis-dying-in-cold-homes/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/105645152/new-zealanders-hungry-and-cold-in-their-own-homes-this-winter etc, etc.
I've been thinking about political ideologies- I can understand how a certain economic/social theory might appeal initially to someone and they want to explore it more, even experiment with it should they reach a position of power. But to not acknowledge ...
But I'm doing OK, so everything's fine and they gave them $25 a week, didn't they?
Which once again invites the question: what is Labour for, exactly, if they're not going to ever deliver anything?" They work for Capital https://democracyproject.nz/2020/11/10/josiah-banbury-labour-won-the-election-battle-but-national-won-the-ideological...
Maybe they get a bonus for every person left to fend for themselves. At one point they were, that and deliberately denying all entitlements. It was common knowledge in our circles but then they got sprung publicly, the powers that be got a bit embarrassed...
"I would like to know whether any prospective beneficiaries have gone into depression and worst still, could not see a way out of it due to lack of financial help." You might want to include current beneficiaries in that question.
booking appointment times can be made by phone or on-line. Although they will do everything possible to prevent you seeing a real person. They don't like that. Be prepared for being told it can all be done online (including scanning in the necessary ...
So the Canadians have to suffer too? Just like most countries can't distinguish us from the Aussies, can you 100% tell where in North America that person originates from? I've met a fair few America migrant here who consider themselves 'political refugees'...
I've just been talking to a good friend, a Canadian ex-pat who's lived in Denmark for decades. She went out for a walk with an American friend earlier and they were afraid to speak in English because of their accents. She really believed they would at the ...
A Dem Presidency/Congress is still going to be severely hampered if they can't get the Senate. Even (even forbid) a Trump win could be mitigated a bit by this.
Mitch McConnel and Linsday Graham re-elected despite all the damage they have wrought. The former probably a bigger psychopath than Trump. Dems taking control of the Senate is the more important outcome.
and thus the Pharmac saving cost the taxpayer a lot of extra money overall. And that really sums up everything wrong with the Pharmac 'model'.
A bit over-dramatic there, RL. While the days of those types of constructions are definitely long-gone, there's nothing wrong with the idea of a state-only rental system, one that caters for renters at all levels, from those saving for their first home, to...
I'm sure I was one of many who wanted to scream (or do worse), at this self-entitled tone deaf twat while listening to her whining this morning. I'll never be a home owner, I was never going to be Personally, I want the State to be my landlord because for ...
David Clark set an extremely low bar for a Health Minister. Little must've volunteered, I don't think it's the first choice for most aspiring Ministers. He just might surprise us all.
Sepaloni will be back in MSD. Because she's just so empathetic and genuinely caring. Not.
This term I would like to see Labour Ministers employ office staff who: a) know how to set up an auto-reply to emails. At least we know our correspondence has got there. How hard can that be?? b) have the common decency to respond to correspondence from ...
Not off-topic at all and +1000. Clearly the lesson hasn't sunk in yet :(
The first, and primary job of any government is to protect it's citizens. I believe that task was accomplished as well as it could be, and my government and leader behaved as I would expect them to in the circumstances. Had it been a National-led ...
Because, as per my earlier comment, even if all 94,146 of us voted it wouldn't sway an election. And the reality is for multiple reasons a lot can't/won't vote and they know it. And TAS numbers have gone up by 30,000 in just 2 years?? I put most of that ...
Safe to say there's plenty. I periodically find myself talking to peers who haven't even heard of it, yet alone know they're probably eligible for it. Just because the Ministry is just as legally obliged to inform us of our entitlements as we are of having...
63,067 (2018 numbers so safe to say many more now). https://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/statistics/benefit/2018/benefit-fact-sheets-march-2018.pdf (p.6)
I know feeling happy and hopeful is not a left wing virtue Interesting comment. I think we are able to be, but certainly in this particular context (even before final votes are counted) we've got every reason not to get our hopes up, based on the noises ...
I'd say a combination of both.
Good point, but I can understand why it would be very hard to find underclass voices, especially those prepared to speak on the record and provide their real name. I'd love to, but not with the combination of it a) affecting my current and future ...
But haven't you heard, Weka? Apparently we don't vote. That's all politicians are interested in.
Actually, I think it may have been on Checkpoint last night. I'll have to look for the link later.
@Janet I can't find the link but there was a Morning Report interview asking this exact question. The gist of the reply was it takes an awful lot of training to get the qualifications these guys have and will take a very long time to train up NZers. But ...
Yes she did get that first line wrong, that dates back to National and their pathetic attempt at saying how wonderful they were at fixing child poverty. I gather you don't get TAS woodart? If you don't then you'll get to keep your $25. As for the many, ...
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