Why I would fail the latest NZCE literacy and numeracy test.

[McDuck]

One benefit from increasing importation costs is that local manufacturing activity is inspired.
(And jobs and talent and skills and so on).

Any business minded person would be put off by cheap overseas government subsidized products and freight.

I'm looking at you, you...

[McDuck]

Cool cryptic message time..


This is so much simpler that you are making it.
They know where they're steering the ship.
It's a new island with new rules.
Forget everything you have been relying on.
It won't work there.
...

[McDuck]

Some interesting points of view on this.
Sounds like your tenant is a reliable income stream.
Personally I'd try and accommodate the request for some sort of schedule from the builders.
And explain that its largely up to them. But you've gotten the most reliable builders available...

[McDuck]

Ha. I've always considered that backwards.

The USD has been manipulated for the past 2 decades, and now its becoming real.

I don't understand why you can't see that.

It was you who gave me the clue to see how this all works.

Before that I couldn't...

[McDuck]

Stuff has a dummy NZCA test.

Q1 Questions about distance and lake Tikitapu.

A1 Google maps does all that stuff. Why on earth would anyone want to go there anyway?

Q2 Buying Taro.

A2 No idea how to cook the stuff. Now if you asked me about potatoes,...

[McDuck]

Yup.
Young people want to see the world.
Funny to think it had its origins in Victorian England,
Where the rich would go on their " Grand Tour,
and try to meet the great thinkers of the time.
Voltaire for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_T...

[McDuck]

Your thinking is so vague and messy that the job of bringing it into some semblance of order is depressingly daunting.
And like my opinion on immigrants, wonderful, just not a problem created by me and way too costly to want to solve.

But I'll do you the respect of answering your...

[McDuck]

Sure.

Immigration done badly is a total disatser .. immigration done well is a great thing.

I don't agree with your simplictic appreciation of the matter.
Or the psudo numbers you have used to back up unlikley outcomes.

Just go down to a hospital waiting...

[McDuck]

This isn't really about immigration, more the Kiwi Saver Fee GST idea.

Immigration can be a good thing or a bad thing, dependent on all sorts of factors.

To be fair to immigrants, you really need to build infrastructure to match the numbers.
And the long calculation may...

[McDuck]

While opportunism and self interest feature strongly in the play book of many political figures...
I'm not confident that this was the case here....

[McDuck]

Ahhhhh!

OK, I get it now!

I'm still annoyed at the sneaky way it was done, and the poor justification,.
Not to mention the unfathomable stupidity and arrogance of going anywhere near kiwi saver ..

But your comments have been the key to figuring this out....

[McDuck]

Make an exact prediction.
What month of what year do you think the OCR will start decreasing.

The experts are all over the place at the moment.

Some as far out as June 2024....

[McDuck]

What was really going on?

Was it just a tax grab?

So annoying.

This argument that we need to standardize and treat everything the same holds no water with me.

Surely some organizations and schemes have a class all of their own -

because...

[McDuck]

Update for future researchers.. 30 August 2022.

Covid still runs free across the globe,
although we have gotten used to the daily infection and death reports.
Vaccines have been developed and deployed.
The consensus is the we can't beat it, so we'll just have to live with...