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Without National's unsustainable and counter-productive tax cuts, NZ would have been even better positioned to meet the challenges of the global economy, address the disaster in Canterbury and avoid more debt while at the same time being able to afford the...
We're going to have to do something about a UBI at some point. When more jobs are automated and the rest are mainly low-paid (while a few pile up the cash and assets) the ability to blame the lazy workers for their lot will be more or less exhausted ...
Hold on a minute! The Greens are a fringe, loony party. Who cares if they are correct all the time? Very few indeed, or they would be the government today. Talking about climate change and sustainability and a diverse, locally-based economy over 20 years ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero - a great quote.
Unless it was a trade for Labour support of more spying powers for the GCSB. (I have no idea - I hope not.) Looks like a good trick, actually. Put up a straw man policy you know will get people riled...and it does...and they are distracted....and then you ...
Looking further back we have INCIS, abolishing apprenticeships and the horrendous electricity reforms of the previous National government...... National are clearly unfit to be considered as a serious governing alternative......but the BELIEF of their ...
You have to wonder why he was selected at all....ever.
I'd trust Big Pharma more if they looked for cures instead of life-long palliatives. Funny how they never find cures.
Signing the TPP to lock up new medicines helps make the price even higher. I can see how this government did that for Big Pharma and I'm sure Kiwis won't really mind as the big boys get theirs before the dying people here. Remember! If it comes down to a ...
Charter schools are a disgraceful abuse of public funds. Taxpayer money to fund special interests...and undermine teacher unions.
I've wanted to change the flag since forever (that's a personal perspective 'forever'). It's begging to be changed. The present flag is a colonial remnant that says little about THIS country. Swapping out the UJ for the fern is big step forward. I'll take ...
Agreed. The alternative flag isn't my first choice, either. But - whatever the process and however much I dislike National's poor ethics and crony capitalism and arrogant disregard for pretty much anything that really matters in the long run............is ...
I don't care. It's better. :-) I don't buy the beach towel thing either...as I have had a beach towel with the existing flag on it. I prefer the new beach towel.
I'm looking at the two flags.... and I prefer the new one. It just has to be better than the present flag... and replacing the Union Jack with a silver fern gets it across the line for me.
"Delude yourself all you want, but if we had an independent media NOT owned by the wealthy who rub shoulders with National, who questioned these rather corrupt politicians and scratched the surface even a little, they would have been gone before the last ...
Don't reply to Redbaiter. He's a disease we don't need to feed.
Once I had owned horses for a while, I understood people much better. I'm not a fearful person....and had for a long time failed to understand that large numbers of people are ruled by their fears....usually of the unknown....and they are often unknowns ...
I'm grateful we have MMP. National's majority is wafer thin. If we had First Past the Post thru would have a big majority with 47% of the vote and would be able to govern alone..... And we would all be taking about electoral reform. But.... they 47%. When ...
For me, this is bigger than John Key or how I feel about him or the process. I like the new flag. However it was arrived at....I like it.
I've vote for the black and white lockwood flag to replace the current one. The Union Jack needs to go. This is the best opportunity to do that. Canada changed it's flag in the mid-60s partly because the Union Jack created confusion overseas and people not...
The National government acting corruptly and cheating is exactly what I would expect them to do. With their standing in the polls, they don't care who knows.....because their voters are - defacto - just as corrupt as they are.....or they wouldn't stand for...
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The removal of tariffs killed off entire careers. NZ industry has effectively been lobotomised over the past 40 years....with only some increasingly elderly workers still possessing the knowledge that would allow any resumption in those areas.
Very true. That is exactly what is happening.
They'll just buy more fraudulent Ukrainian carbon credits.
This price drop is mainly being driven by the Saudis, as far as i can tell, and it coincides with three things: 1. the lifting of sanctions on Iran and 2. the growth of fracking / shale oil in the US reaching critical mass and 3. the impact of both ...
As one who lives in Auckland, the projects there have been begging for public input for years. The response? "Go the All Blacks!" - or whatever the distraction du jour may be. The reality is that some one has to do thinking and planning for the future.... ...
I agree...but the neo-liberals insisted on the "market" that would price carbon to send "signals" to reduce emissions. Then we spent 25 years refusing to implement the model that had been insisted on as the only way to do it. When some jurisdiction gave up...
The usual rule is that there must be the appearance of propriety…..so the standard is a high one. It should be obvious there was no interference. Unfortunately, we’re now in the position of it being the other way around. There is very much the appearance ...
The usual rule is that there must be the appearance of propriety.....so the standard is a high on. It should be obvious there was no interference. Unfortunately, we're now in the position of it being the other way around. There is very much the appearance ...
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