Originally posted by Bob Kane
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Financial Armageddon!!
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This is why the nation is failing politically.
We have no strong right wing party to partner National, no mates nats are screwed.
If ACT was strong enough to the right they might succeed, they need policy like this and such things as bringing back the death penalty.
We as a country are too soft and too stupid.
Instead of using prisoners to work on getting roads built quickly, they take 7 years and clog up the roads, spending millions on Cones and cone hire and reports.
Instead of planting 100's of thousands of fruit tree's to feed people, they plant natives, I mean WTF, how stupid.
Instead of widening the old farmers bus route, adding 50 buses and making it free, they spend billions on a central rail loop and **** up central Auckland business and traffic for multiple years.
It is financial Armageddon by a thousand cuts.
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I think that you have implicity identified the problem.
Once NZ had a left and right option.
The conservative (gNats) and labour.
A pro-business or a pro-labour.
A blue or a red.
Now, all we have is a turbid, faeces-like, in-the-middle-coloured, murky, malodorous brown.
I.e. the gNats trying to be Labour-like and Labour trying to look business-like.
No good has or can come of either false facade.
Nor will it ever.
The "I've been elected so I must be better / smarter / superior / more anointed than thou" syndrome is not just alive and well.
It's burgeoning.
And thus it has ever been.
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Instead of using prisoners to work on getting roads built quickly, they take 7 years and clog up the roads, spending millions on Cones and cone hire and reports.
Instead of planting 100's of thousands of fruit tree's to feed people, they plant natives, I mean WTF, how stupid.Squadly dinky do!
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Originally posted by Perry View PostI think that you have implicity identified the problem.
Once NZ had a left and right option.
The conservative (gNats) and labour.
A pro-business or a pro-labour.
A blue or a red.
Now, all we have is a turbid, faeces-like, in-the-middle-coloured, murky, malodorous brown.
I.e. the gNats trying to be Labour-like and Labour trying to look business-like.
No good has or can come of either false facade.
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A watered down, middle of the road consensus.
Basically we've got a series of do-nothing governments.
Who supports MMP these days?
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What is this whole Nats vs Labour thing about anyway?
What do they stand for? Really?
Red vs Blue?
What is at the heart of it?
How did it all start?
And where?
How do you pick a side?
And the government, the structure of it?
Is it a third force on its own?
It's structure exists and functions the same regardless, no matter if it has a red or blue tie on that day?
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Originally posted by Bob Kane View PostThis was the predicted outcome when MMP was introduced.
A watered down, middle of the road consensus.
Basically we've got a series of do-nothing governments.
Who supports MMP these days?
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Originally posted by Bluekiwi View PostOnly give the dole and accommodation supplement out for 2 years max in Auckland, then if they want to stay on govt support.
They have to move to a small town with over supply of housing.
Just get a cuzzy to collect the mail and pass it back up to the big city, take the $1 bus back down to the town when WINZ wants to see you.
Easy peezzy.
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you've got to realise
labour's remit
it to expand benefits for all
presumably to be paid for by a very few frogs (net tax payers)
who won't notice the temp of the pot increasing (increasing taxes)
i'm picking people aren't frogs
and they'll jump
before they're cookedhave you defeated them?
your demons
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Originally posted by eri View Postyou've got to realise
labour's remit
it to expand benefits for all
presumably to be paid for by a very few frogs (net tax payers)
who won't notice the temp of the pot increasing (increasing taxes)
i'm picking people aren't frogs
and they'll jump
before they're cookedSquadly dinky do!
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Originally posted by flyernzl View PostWhich presents a problem - after they move there, how do you ensure that they stay there?
Just get a cuzzy to collect the mail and pass it back up to the big city, take the $1 bus back down to the town when WINZ wants to see you.
Easy peezzy.
No emergency grants either.
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interestingly
this week the american yield curve flipped back to positive
while it was always only another "reading of the tea leaves"
like Orr's recent decision to NOT lower the OCR
it's a better sign of a looming lost decades (japanese style)
than incipient chaos
we live in interesting times
speaking of which
have just opened a letter from david seymor inviting me to hear Orr speak next month in remuera
presumably because david's my local mp and he wants both my votes next election
why me and not the other 2 registered voters in the house?
has ACT paid for some data matching???Last edited by eri; 16-11-2019, 03:40 PM.have you defeated them?
your demons
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