The more the world changes, the more The Standard's and the Facebook left's fanatical hatred of John Key remains the same. And real people keep voting for National. Please don't change anything. It's good for the country. [lprent: As you say, the more the ...
I especially like the part where the cop said that there was basically no evidence other than the contents of Hager's book. Poor widdle anti-establishment activist Nicky! It's a sick, sad, cruel world when people won't simply swallow all of your ...
Lefty politicians who kept promising (and kept operating) a generous welfare state that cost more than their tax revenue could pay for. Lefty voters who kept demanding the above and voting for it.
Borrow enough and lenders will eventually say "nah to hell with it, keep the money, we feel sorry for you." Happens all the time? Really??!?
What would YOU do? If YOU were Europe and YOUR spendthrift, broke-ass neighbour was Greece? Offer him YET ANOTHER big stack of no-strings cash? It's all cool bro, just pay it back whenever you can / if you can? I bet you wouldn't.
OF COURSE IT IS NOT "agreeing on equal terms" Greece wants to borrow money, and has little to offer in return but promises to run a tighter domestic budget in future. How in the world do you imagine this negotiation [is "equal" / should be "equal" / ever ...
Greece already owes Europe a whole lot of money, and has just missed a repayment. Greece is now asking Europe for another loan on top of what they already owe, to cover day-to-day running costs, Europe is willing to make another loan, but that is ...
"Wrong area" Oh ok you got me, there aren't many $300k houses in Takapuna or Herne Bay. My bad.
Excellent, thank you. (1) I totally support, it is ridiculous the way many on the right complain about how little investment in business there is in NZ, while in the same breath defending the special tax-free status of buying, selling and running rental ...
FFS. I said "the government." You said "the government." The Government has constituents. I have to ask... do you have a job? Or are you just on here all day, every day, practising your bait and switch non sequiturs?
People with more influence [and brain cells] than me appear to want their constituents to believe they are concerned about the problem. There's a difference...
Should 15, 16 and 17-year-olds be able to afford mortgage repayments? There must be tens of thousands of kids in that age group in Auckland doing a few hours a week after school, and a full shift at the weekend, all at minimum wage. OF COURSE the median ...
That wasn't the question, genius. I asked the author of this thread what HE thought the Govt should do. Thank you for your concern.
"Short attention span? Comprehension issues? Or simple malice and bad faith?" For YOU, oab, I'll say bad faith. Buying a house isn't easy. People scrimp and save for years to get a deposit together. People work out how much they can afford to spend, and ...
We had no problem obtaining a 90% mortgage in Wellington 2.5 years ago! We just re-fixed for 2 more years, current bank has upped our property value such that in theory we have 20% equity now. Bank "B" which we also considered were happy to take us in the ...
I just Trademe searched houses, townhouses and units (NOT Apartments) in Auckland, 1-2 bedrooms, $300,000 or less, and there were 120 results. Fortnightly payments on a mortgage of ($300,000 - $55,000 = $245,000) over 30 years at 6% is $677 per fortnight...
How do you propose the government might make Auckland housing more affordable? Bearing in mind that the current market prices reflect the existing supply of houses that is available and what the existing pool of buyers is willing to pay.
You are of course free to believe I'm lying to you, and free to call me a liar if that's what you want to do. That's about all I expect from this site. ;-)
Wrong, try 2008 ;-) I can't believe you are all just flat out trying to discredit me, instead of being outraged at this appalling waste of money that should be going to state houses for the poor!?!
AGAIN - he was a Green-voting Wellington arty socialist when making these comments. He still posts lefty, feminist, socialist crap all over my Facebook regularly. Reading just isn't your thing, is it?
Try reading what I actually wrote. I didn't say his job was a bullshit sinecure and he didn't really have to work much... HE said that about his OWN job.
... a little help from Dr RRM. :-)
It was an astonishing conversation, my mate is an ideological socialist and Green party voter. I asked him how he felt about being a part of a huge overhead that prevented funding reaching the needy at the coal face; I forget what he said to that but it ...
Mate of mine worked for Housing NZ head office about 8 or 9 years ago. Said the job was just a joke, he was in a 14-man team and the best 4 of them could have done all the work on their own, usually he had his in-tray clear by morning smoko so for the rest...
Does bitching about John Key and the neolibs on here pay for more state houses? It doesn't, does it? Taxes pay for state houses.
No, I pay net tax, without me and my contributions there would be FEWER state houses and they would be EVEN WORSE. All you need to say is "thank you"... ;-)
Remember when Housing NZ wanted to demo a whole lot of shitty old sub-standard state houses in Glen Innes, to make way for good new ones? Remember who violently protested that? Harawira and his mates. I hope nobody on this thread today decrying the state ...
Really? I joined kiwisaver right at the beginning, I was putting 4% into Kiwisaver and by doing that I was able to get the deposit for our first house together in about 4 years without really trying. I was earning about equivalent to the average wage ...
Let me explain it to you nice and slowly. No, the General election may not be a SURVEY of every New Zealander. But it is still a better form of representative democracy than anything else yet attempted. You are of course free to keep insisting that the NZ ...
"Who says the election results mean that? No-one but right wing parrots." Quite right! Bugger this democracy lark! What the public REALLY NEED, is people like US who can decide FOR THEM how their country best ought to be run!
"It feels like progressives have one hand tied behind our back …" It doesn't have to be that way. Get some new policies. Stop listening to the facebook left, they are mostly children or BA grads. Stop lecturing the country about how child poverty is a ...
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