OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
Now, which of those approaches is 'ambitious'? Which sort produces a high value economy? What sort of country do we want to live in and for our children to inherit?
Clearly it's ambitious if we gut the public sector and expect a historically-unwilling private sector to step up and fill the void.
Oh, wait, you didn't mean that kind of ambitious :| -
Kumara Republic, in reply to
Clearly it's ambitious if we gut the public sector and expect a historically-unwilling private sector to step up and fill the void.
Oh, wait, you didn't mean that kind of ambitious :|There's Silicon Valley ambitious... and then there's Kath & Kim ambitious.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
Kath & Kim ambitious.
You mean "embishus", in the manner of a Shon Key. Right?
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Speaking of ambition, Metiria Turei calls out the WWG for their lack of it.
And in the five years between December 2000 and December 2005 the number of people on working age benefits dropped by a whopping 90,000 (or 90% of the Welfare Working Group’s 10 year target) from 392,000 to 302,000. That was without the punitive measures the Welfare Working Group is proposing to introduce – in fact the work-for-dole schemes and work-testing of single parents that had been implemented by the last National-led Government were abolished early in that period.
So much for ambition! The Welfare Working Group doesn’t have any more ambitious target for reduction in beneficiary numbers than would seem likely, given past experience, to occur anyway given reasonably favourable economic conditions and sound economic management.
So why is the Welfare Working Group proposing its beneficiary bash-fest?
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
So why is the Welfare Working Group proposing its beneficiary bash-fest?
Maybe they have shareholdings in gated community developments?
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Heather Gaye, in reply to
Speaking of ambition, Metiria Turei calls out the WWG for their lack of it.
OH YES, this:
People in employment on low and middle incomes have as much to fear from the Welfare Working Group as beneficiaries as they will all be forced to compete for the McJobs these policies will create.
This is the point I’d like to see more in media soundbites. I reckon there are a lot of working National voters who’ll shrug their shoulders at WWG measures because they don’t believe any changes will affect them directly.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
That would require a competent Opposition. So far they seem to be MIA.
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
So far they seem to be MIA.
Actually, MIA would be a considerable improvement on what they're doing.
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Rob S, in reply to
Q, If John Key were a cheese. ..............hmmmm
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Heather Gaye, in reply to
If John Key were a cheese.
I've never been a fan of blue cheese.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
I've never been a fan of blue cheese.
Maybe not, but mouldy and smelly isn't a bad description for most of his ideas.
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Sacha, in reply to
MIA would be a considerable improvement
True
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Jacqui Dunn, in reply to
[Key] is made of the same stuff… cheese.
Ah, but what sort? Edam? Parmesan? Gouda? Feta? Gourmet voters want to know!
Why, blue of course!
ETA: Ah, Heather beat me to it.... I don't read fast enough, that's my problem.
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Key is too mainstream to be a cheese with any real character even an ordinary blue vein displays more elan than I associate with him. I expect that He's relaxed about that however
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
If John Key were a cheese.I've never been a fan of blue cheese.
I figure he'd be more of an American cheese, the sort that comes in a can and smells sweet and sickly and has an orange tinge to its otherwise pallid complexion. The sort of cheese that is ambishus to be a real cheese.
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Or like Swiss cheese, riddled with illogical holes and empty spaces?
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Islander, in reply to
Or 'we are the boys from down on the farm' cheddar which sort of oozed when you put it under the grill, and ran, but didnt actually taste of very much at all..."tastes better"? Only because we hadnt tried too many real cheeses then.
Now, we have-
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You put it under the grill and ran? Frightening cheese eh?.
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Islander, in reply to
Well, no, you stayed there and watched it fizzing under the element - then it generally browned or blackened, and you went off and ate some fish...
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But what about the $4m for fixing the grass of Lancaster Park,..er.. Jade Stadium.. er.. AMI Stadium? And it won’t even be played on until next year. That should keep a bit of cash in the NZRFU accounts unti the RWC handout turns up.
NZRU doesn't own AMI stadium. It's owned by by the government through a body called Victory Park Board.
So the government is basically spending its own money on fixing up its own asset. Don't let that get in your way though.
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He's "The Great New Zealand One Kg of Cheese" (tm). The kind of cheese you'd buy for a group of assorted NZers, if you were only allowed one kind of cheese, and wanted to put it on everything. A money saving cheese. The kind of cheese we had before we knew there were different kinds of cheese. The cheese that makes you feel patriotic when you eat it.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
He's "The Great New Zealand One Kg of Cheese" (tm).
That would be the $16 per Kilo block of cheese then, you remember? back in 2008 when John Chee was ambitious to be the big cheese.
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Sacha, in reply to
the big cheese
I don't think he minds what type of cheese; it's the size that does it for him
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"If John Key were a cheese?" - well he is and he is "Richard" Cheese.
Presently he only has to smile and wave such is the standard of the opposition who are no capable of w[ping the smeg look from his face.
Shane Jones, Darren Hughes leaving Labour with both feet well shot off, I guess the next target will be a blast to the head – bye (or by) Phil
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I think National are quite happy with Goff continuing to be the head.
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