Posts by Jeremy Eade
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As an economic gesture I guess the $$$$$ thinking is it will rate highly, which it almost certainly will ( = $$$$ from big tv ads) , however it has a slim chance of bombing. The government intervenes here to underwrite the costs of failure. It's very interventionist.
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Also off topic but it will be fascinating on a cultural level to see how our paul does in auz. Paul Henry is a one man "fox and friends." He's worried about his Australian tax payments already. You could make the arguement so were we when we paid him with our taxes to be on da state telly.
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So today the mfat will be trimmed. Yet aren't trade and foreign affairs vital to this ocean locked nation. It's just a reduction to ease a budget sorely missing revenue. It doesn't seem to make sense in a long term strategic sense. This idea that bureaucracy is only improved by reduction is fundamentally flawed.
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Even Fran O'Sullivan now believes in the power of Government,
Surely she must see the strengths of modern Chinese style help/ modelling/ inteference(?) in their basic business activities in an ability to build dollars in and keep folk employed.
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My point is from slim personal readings, our trade and foreign policy goals are either fuzzy or never sufficiently spotlighted and debated.
Personally I'm all for departments that benefit our country and I can't see how defunding such institutions benefits them.
I mean this all around reduction call on public service staff is very poor "long term" thinking given the importance of such activities.
To break institutions and break the intelligence cycle of experience that all organisations are benefits of is poor national thinking.
But the other problem is what the hell are the poor people working there expected to achieve.
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What does the ministry of FAT (bad name) do? What are we trying to achieve? (Best Ceo voice on)?
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Employers' and manufacturers' lobby group Business New Zealand has injected a little spirit of the Grinch into the Christmas edition of its ManufacturingNZ newsletter, which highlights "three types of people to fire immediately."
Taken from the financial news agency Bloomberg's Business Week publication, the article suggests that "victims", "non-believers" and "know-it-alls" are the three types of people that businesses should show the door to.
I wish we had a Daily Show. Merry Xmas.
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Legal Beagle: 14 Pages of Democracy, in reply to Phil Lyth,
That number seems incredibly high when you consider the combined polls got most percentages by 2-3%.
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It shows how important the floating vote is. How many of Waitakere decided that day? If it was 100 then they decided that vote. Maybe polls that close should be redone.
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'Fight Chasing Arsehole’ should be the next big X-Box game.
For the record the issue of media bias against basic Labour Party principles (Unions, the minumum wagers and the dolecitizens) was introduced to me in a University paper in 1991. There is a media problem with these principles, maybe because they are so modern media unsexy and in the union case, a long time, well defined enemy of National Party progress.
Business is very much potrayed as a white shining knight full of bright lights with the only ideas or ways that will lead to true stability. We have strong business news sections everywhere. Sure business collapses are reported with vigour but that's because the stories are always tragic.