Black Friday!

[Bob Kane]

... house prices have doubled.

[Perry]

Maybe the Corona virus will be the 'thing?'

[Wayne]

Maybe the Corona virus will be the 'thing?'

What thing?
It is A thing.
One of a number of things.
Things keep happening.

[Perry]

The 'thing' that will actually deliver on the gloom and doom that's been predicted for so long, by so many, so inaccurately.

[donna]

Did you see Jacinda's reply to a twitter follower saying she should leave politics cause she's ruined the economy?

"is that a reference to the low unemployment levels we've achieved, high wage growth, decrease in debt or the solid GDP growth at 2.7%?"

It was fact-checked and it's all true!

[Wayne]

It was fact-checked and it's all true!

Many will not believe it.

[Perry]

It was fact-checked and it's all true!

Who did the checking?

Pass a law increasing minimum wages and then later crow about high wage growth? No comment about prices increasing, record-high rents, shortage of rental accommodation, tens of millions going to motels for emergency housing, never mind the missing 29,500 affordable homes.

I don't believe it, either.

[Wayne]

Who did the checking?

The media

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12308129

[Perry]

The media?

Gasp; wheeze; cough; choke . . .

Nuff said!

Fudged
Artifacts
Claiming
Truth
Stridently

The media deal in click-bait, not facts.

Factoids, maybe. If we're lucky.

As for any hedonically 'cooked' figures from a govt. dept. (Stats NZ) being subservient to the gummint and the PM, only the great unwashed would be suckered by such empty rhetoric.

[Wayne]

The media?

Gasp; wheeze; cough; choke . . .

Nuff said!

Fudged
Artifacts
Claiming
Truth
Stridently

The media deal in click-bait, not facts.

Factoids, maybe. If we're lucky.

As for any hedonically 'cooked' figures from a govt. dept. (Stats NZ) being subservient to the gummint and the PM, only the great unwashed would be suckered by such empty rhetoric.

What are the real facts then?
You are saying the media are wrong so what is right?
Or was that just a rant?

[Perry]

What are the real facts then?
You are saying the media are wrong so what is right?
Or was that just a rant?

What's a rant?

And what's a fact?

Did the socialists say they were going to build 10,000 affordable houses per year, if elected? [Fact / rant?]

Did they get elected? [Fact / rant?]

If so, how's the tally looking, for the 10,000 affordable houses a year? [Fact / rant?]


Did Taxcindarella promise no increase in taxes, if elected? [Fact / rant?]

Then later say that the increase in taxes were not tax increases, but just a numerical change in the existing excise and levy figures, so not really a tax increase or new tax? Apart from screwing Aucklanders, of course. [Fact / rant?]


And what do you suppose the answer is to this post?

Under Jacinda Ardern’s Government, immigration has carried on at near record levels in spite of election promises by Labour and New Zealand First to dramatically cut the numbers. [Fact / rant?]

Labour’s attack on landladies has carried on unabated. By over-regulating rental housing, rents have increased and rentals become scarcer, followed by a surge in homelessness with increases in the state house waiting list - a record-breaking 14,000 families now – over double the 5,800 when Labour took office. In addition, 30,000 families are now in emergency housing, up from 6,000 two years ago, with millions of dollars going to motels which are probably not saddled with the same back-breaking raft of rules and regulations that private landladies are. [Fact / rant?]

Another item added from the dubious media, today.
Housing crisis: 'I've rung hundreds of places to ask, you just get shut down'

Auckland woman Andrea Bartlett is on the brink of homelessness - she and her six children have been renting their home for the past two years, but were recently told their landlord wanted to sell.

Wanting to sell? Anyone with half a brain wonder why? Yet another success story from the red's policies!

In spite of employers crying out for workers, the total of working age New Zealanders on welfare has risen from 277,000 when Labour came to office, to almost 300,000. The number of Jobseekers has risen 18 percent to 143,000 – the highest level since the global financial crisis.

MSD has admitted that this is largely due to a Government directive changing their focus from getting people into jobs, to providing financial assistance. As a result, while the number of special needs grants has increased from 200,000 to 350,000 a year, there is no pro-active work expectation for almost 80 percent of the unemployed. [Fact / rant?]


Candidly, I can't be bothered making the effort of carefully assessing what lies beneath all such political lies and BS as dribbles from the toothyfairy, Taxcindarella et al. I have long ago accepted the maxim that the way to tell if a politician is lying is to verify that their lips are moving.

[Perry]

Read Linked Item And Choke

It just keeps getting worse and worse, as the tooth-fairy gummint lurches from one crisis to another.

But don't get concerned. It's just a rant, after all.

Government defends charging rent for emergency motel stays
13 Feb 2020

The [$300M taxpayer-funded gummint] package is focused on reducing the amount of motel stays necessary, which have doubled since late-2018 to a point where between 3000 and 4000 people are staying in motels.

Ten thousand affordable homes a year, anyone?

[Perry]

Best not to listen to the news or read newspapers from now on in....it's all doom and gloom for the markets, property values etc.

Thirteen years on and Fridays still keep coming around. Of all shades, hues and colours.

[Perry]

Black Friday!
Start date of the this thread: 10-08-2007

The years and the Fridays keep rolling on by.
The only change being yesterday's gloom is today's whatever.

[Perry]

Black Friday!
Start date of the this thread: 10-08-2007

The years and the Fridays keep rolling on by.
The only change being yesterday's gloom is today's whatever.

And now it's much the same, still, in 2021.

The ghosts of predictions past are here to haunt us all.