McFlock - they may not have complained about lack of spending on benefits, but they certainly complained about lack of spending on electricity infrastructure, and roads, and operations etc. The point there are so many demands from so many sectors that ...
That's irrelevant. Any govt at any time can direct any SOE to spend more on infrastructure. With govts, there's huge pressure to spend on every other sector. That's why every opposition complains about every government about underspending in every sector.
Irrelevant. If it wants to, any govt at any time can direct any SOE to spend more to keep infrastructure up to date. With govts, there's huge pressure to spend on every other sector. That's why every opposition complains about every government about ...
The Bill was going to be passed anyway. So National took a pragmatic approach and did a political deal, and got the bill watered down in return for support. The Greens and Labour were driving the bill, and that's what people remember. Trying to shift the ...
I could vote for Labour again if they got their act together. I've voted for them more than I've ever voted right, so I'm probably in the middle. The problem with Labour is they come up with poorly thought out reactionary ideas at the last minute like the ...
And was Mercury a private company, or government owned? That's right - government owned.
You just proved my point. You're getting anal about who said what in Parliament, but all that's happening is everyone is getting reminded that Labour and Greens passed a highly unpopular law against the wishes of the vast majority of the population - it ...
This is funny. We've got lefties getting all anally retentive with minor and largely irrelevant points, making themselves look to the public like they're trying to blame the anti-smacking bill on National. When all they are doing is - 1/ Reminding the ...
The anti smacking bill was introduced in 2007 by Labour Greens against overwhelming public opposition, and now they're trying to blame National for it. That's truely wacky, not to mention dishonest. The scary thing is people with such warped thinking want ...
Colonial Viper says "Links mate or it didn’t happen." Is there any point? I've linked to well know things like the Auckland blackouts, and the Post Office running down telecom when it was govt owned, and you just say they're lies. If you know what google ...
Investment by Chinese into NZ has meant huge inroads to our ability to increased our exports to China. Private investment in Telecom brought about $5 billion dollars of spending (massively more than the Post Office ever spent), a transfer of new technology...
We should DOUBLE spending on renewable energy when there's currently FALLING demand for electricity? There's around 35 renewable energy projects planned, many of which already have consent and can be started at the drop of a hat. The one thing they don't ...
World News Australia reports "In its most recent assessment on global warming the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there were no identifiable long term trends when comes to tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons." The funny thing is, if ...
Tracey says "why do people right of the political spectrum always think that what they and their friends think is shared by everyone?" Why do people on the left think that ONLY people on the right do that?
Ah - the eternal Mugabe solution. Note to self - I must stop debating with deluded people.
If you think The Encyclopedia of NZ in now edited by neoliberals, you really have lost the plot. When you start disputing widely known and proven facts because they don't agree with your cultish ideology, time to get some help. When you abuse anyone you ...
CV says "The government wins by taking back all the profits from the generators, not just 51%." What profits? The Greens Labour Power Plan is to cut $700m off profits - that's MORE than total dividends paid to govt and private shareholders when they still ...
... "More dick head lies from Photonz." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Printing money - your new Mugabe solution for everything. Why don't they just print money, hand it out to everyone and we call all stop work and go on holiday? And when we run out, they can dish out some more. No one need ever work again. Every country ...
That brings up the issue of when the govt owns something, there's always huge pressure to spend any spare money on social security, health and education, so we usually get massive underfunding on our infrastructure. As happened with telecom when it was ...
You could nationalise, but if you cut $700million in govt dividends, and therefore $350m in tax, and a similar amount in gst, then the govt has to make nearly a one and a half billion dollars in spending cuts. What do you suggest? Benefit cuts? Teachers ...
Except 90% of the population need a car to get to the rail station, and another car at the other end to get to their destination. The Greens predict if they spend billions on their dream public rail system in Auckland, they'll increase usage to 100,000 ...
I bought my Air NZ shares in 2007 when Labour was in power. The funny thing with asset sales is we're told by the left we shouldn't sell them because they pay a good dividend, and the capital value goes up. But the Greens/Labour power scheme plans to kill ...
Here are some numbers from the union, who welcomed the $30m deal. "He [ EPMU's Trevor Hobbs] said the Tiwai Point smelter is worth 3200 jobs and $1.6 billion a year to Southland's economy." From http://tvnz.co.nz/business-news/relief-in-southland-over-...
tracey says "Actually yes, they should have someone with expertise in mining to look over things before they lend, you think that is too onerous for a bank with millions of dollars?" That's truly bizarre. Are banks to blame for the Air NZ crash in France? ...
Colonial Viper would happily screw the lives of 2000 Invercargill workers and their families. Then pretends to care about people.
First they're to blame, not because they were responsible for the disaster, but because they are a bank. Now they're to blame because they're capitalists. You guys are so far to the extreme left that you make Kim Jong-un look like a moderate right winger.
Tracey says "I mean the bank should have done better due diligence shouldn’t it?" No. You are putting more blame on the bank, than on - Pike River Pike River managers safety authorities unions ACC Pike River shareholders Shareholders of shareholders of ...
The deal is to keep the smelter open until 2017. The govt collects $25b income tax from 2 million workers, so there's an average of $12,500 per worker (and $15billion in gst) plus company tax. So it's pretty easy to figure out that a subsidy of $15,000 per...
Tracey says "You said if miners were paid others would lose out on ACC… its not quite as cut and dried as you suggest." ACC have ALREADY paid the miners families compensation. Cunliffe falsely insinuated that ACC received a large part of the $80 million ...
Just what we need - an insane society randomly shifting responsibility away from where it should be "it's no my fault I got drunk and killed someone You're Honour. It's the banks fault, because they gave me an overdraft, and I used it to buy a bottle of ...
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