Posts by Steve Barnes
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I don't think it's this...
Ayn Rand Movie Fails in Free Market (Despite Tea Party Hype) but I was amused...The reviews of "Atlas Shrugged" have been merciless. And despite a major push by Tea Party networks, Ayn Rand's paean to ego-centrism has not drawn audiences.
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Speaker: The Democracy-Free Zone, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
a plane towing a sign saying ‘Money is Good’ also posters about town… Did I also see a poster saying ‘Money is Bad’?
What is reality?Some, well a few actually, have been sucked in up here too.
About 100 Aucklanders lured to Albert Park this morning with the promise of $10,000 dropping from the sky were sorely disappointed.
Hopping on the back of the Money is Good, Money is Bad advertising campaign, a Twitter profile was created to dupe Aucklanders into thinking cash would be dropped in the central city.
The reality?
You are not alone in asking that question.
Robyn Gallagher thinks it's for Work & Income... fnahh
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Speaker: The Democracy-Free Zone, in reply to Matthew Poole,
outside of the triennial cycle
So what if the election was held on the originally appointed date in 2013 and the people refused to accept the cancellation of their democracy and just went ahead. Where there's a will there is a loophole. Even if the Govt. refused to accept the authority, which as you rightly point out they would, it would still be there to expose the lack of democracy regardless of its legal standing, a council in exile as such.
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I suppose there is one thing that is refreshing, a bunch of meaningless numbers that don't have dollar signs in front of them for a change.
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David Carter and Amy Adams announced early this month that ECan elections would be delayed until 2016. That is despite promises, when democratically elected councillors were sacked in 2010, that elections would return in 2013.
from Joe's link
So what if the people of Christchurch went ahead and held an election anyway, would the Government refuse to recognise the authority?.
Well of course they would. When we have a Prime Minister who believes not reading a document means it's contents do not exist it is easy to imagine his sycophantic followers ignoring the wishes of an entire electorate but hey, it would show them up for the knowingly ignorant self entitled pricks they are -
perhaps its about time the world was run by people who know what they are trying to achieve for the people rather than themselves. Oh hang on... that's Socialism and that is evil... apparently.
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Is it me or is anyone else getting PAS in bold italics?
Has someone done the old strong tag again?eta
Apparently it's just me... as you were, I shall reboot. -
Why is it that a hairdresser in Remuera is worth more than a hairdresser in Mangere?
Fact is that they are not, it is that their customers are richer. In a society that bases it's success on how much it consumes it is better to have a wealthier end user. This can be achieved by a universal wage. The universal wage is the opposite of the "trickle down theory" of supply side economics, it is demand side, an economy only works when the money is in motion and while in motion it can be taxed so the principal returns to the coffers and everybody wins.
On a side note I think the same way about "water rights". It is more about the guardianship of the rivers, the movement of water rather than the water itself. The movement of the water is the same energy that is extracted by the power stations and without that energy, the river is a puddle, it has no spirit to exploit. -
The "How taxes Work" joke and it is a joke, fails at the first test. Governments don't run restaurants, they produce piles of paper and gusts of luke warm foul smelling air. The second fail is that the poorest would not be allowed in the same restaurant, let alone the same table as the richest and to top it off they all would have, at some point, have contributed to the wealth of the richest.
I prefer the Diamond/Water paradox. To me it illustrates the irrationality of economics. -
Hard News: "Because we can", in reply to Angus Robertson,
The Libyan military intervention has been so unsuccessful that the people of Benghazi spent a day dragging the corpse of the US ambassodor around the streets.
Exaggerate, much?
Video shows Libyans trying to rescue US ambassador"There was not a single ambulance to carry him. Maybe he was handled the wrong way,” said Fahd al-Bakoush, a freelance videographer who shot the footage. “They took him to a private car."
Of course, it suits the Romney cause to present the Lybians as ungrateful retches and that Obama is a Muslim supporter at the expense of Righteous Americans.
ETA
@ Richard Llewellyn… Snap.