There is an alternative view offered in Stephen Joyces article on the health reforms by Andrew little - but it is rather weak. I am no expert but my major observation of the merger of the DHB's is that the bureaucracy increase was huge. Normally in a ...
Just received news that Maria Muchado was banned from standing against Maduro. She has thrown her support behind Edmundo Gonzalez and my friends from the city of Merida are now requesting my prayers for him. Found this BBC link. https://www.bbc.com/news/...
Maria Muchado is standing against Nicolas Maduro in the Venezuelan elections this weekend. She is a remarkable woman who has policies to get Venezuela back to where it was economically and socially before Chavez took control. Polls suggest the opposition ...
Newsom has endorsed VP Kamala Harris so will definitely be wating for the next election cycle
Wow I had no idea anyone could earn that much. He is a financial genius. I assumed he was short of cash after his Twitter purchase resulted in so many leaving the platform.
Elon Musk has committed 45m per month to elect Trump.
We keep getting into debates about what is racist and the equality of all NZ'ers. This will continue until we arrive at a definitive answer as a nation as to whether Maori ceded sovereignty - or not - according to the Treaty. Te Pati Maori and the Greens ...
Why don't we put some guns on the new cook strait ferries. Then we could take them out of the overcommitted transport budget and get them into the defence spending
If the bike business is struggling financially maybe she puts her own family needs ahead of her country or party and stays on as long as possible simply for the money.
Could she join the Maori Party?
I don't get why she should resign. It is alleged that her husbands business illegally hired staff and paid staff less than the minimum wage. So far there exist only allegations. The issue is yet to be tested in a court of law. Darleen says unfair and ...
It won't be easy for Starmer to pursue a moderate path with that majority. Like NZ Labour in 2020 with a similar once in a lifetime majority their activist supporters will be pushing for bold reforms. The biggest issue is housing, and like NZ Labour he has...
Biggest wedding in 200 years but the honeymoon will be disappointing. Like NZ Labour in 2020 Starmer will have a huge majority because the voters were desperate for change and their only option under FPP was Starmer. Who polled poorly right up to the ...
Just heard it reported by Barry Soper on ZB that developers would have to finance infrastructure if they choose to develop rural urban land. I imagine this would be like the new Milldale subdivision where house buyers pay a levy attached to their rates ...
Labour voters had the option to go left with Jeremy Corbyn or choose the neoliberal path with Starmer.
When the post debate polls come out next week Biden will be replaced if his support falls five percent or more. It's a pity Biden didn't get the nomination in 2016. He was a better candidate than Hillary. A friend in the US who is a lifelong Democrat ...
I think all of us believe in a mixed model. No one ever suggests de socialising Health or Education. And even Act support the need for welfare. It seems to me that our current tax system is working OK but we need more money for infrastructure and climate ...
I don't really care about millionaires. Just everyone having a good chance to live without constant financial worries. I was living in France before Macron scrapped the wealth tax in 2017 and remember how it backfired. I don't know enough about other new ...
No-not a wealth tax- just tax paid on income on our progressive scale. Wealth taxes rarely raise the revenue predicted and sometimes countries that have introduced them have lost more revenue than they gained.
More wealth would help to provide those services if tax was paid on the increasing income as people made their way becoming millionaires. I think Norm Kirk said something like all we need is somewhere to live, someone to love, somewhere to work and ...
Yesterday I responded to Ad on OM who suggested it would be good for NZ to have more millionaires not less. I agreed saying that the ideal way to solve the intractable problem of poverty would be a policy that would create as much wealth as possible for as...
Are you saying I should pay more taxes than required ?
Gsays there is a strange logic that says the profit I make after paying all due taxes from my own hard work is unjust. But living off the work of others is fine.
Weka Maori changed their infanticide practices because the missionaries showed them a better way. They abandoned slavery and cannibalism for the same reason. Not because they signed a treaty but because they became convinced that forgiveness was better ...
Weka that is a great question. I have been thinking about a response all afternoon. I don't want to give a trite answer so will respond tomorrow on OM.
I'm not saying that Maori are predisposed to killing their children. Simply that you can't blame the the effects of colonisation on infanticide committed by Maori today as it was happening before Maori were colonised. Maori pre colonisation lived a class ...
This subject is fraught but my question was about what we could learn from Maori about raising children. I'm not sure that I fully understand theories of colonisation but I do know that we have all been colonised at some point. I don't believe that Maori ...
DOS I think that the left and the right care about ending poverty but they have different solutions to get there. What do you mean when you say that we could "Learn from Maori about making the country better for mokopuna" It doesn't make any sense. What ...
Great comment Ad. If the left really wanted to get rid of poverty we'd see policies designed to create as much wealth as possible for as many as possible. Often it seems what they desire is as much power as possible for as few as possible.
These murders can't be blamed on colonisation or poverty. They are a choice that is made. One child dies every 5 weeks on average at the hands of their caregiver. If those charged in these cases choose to remain silent every adult in the house should be ...
I'm in the dark. Have NZ First done something corrupt or being investigated for corruption. Not hypothetical - genuine question. .
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