Posts by Matthew Poole
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
It’s just downright insulting to order New Zealanders to donate. The spontaneous benevolence of Kiwis in the quake’s aftermath has been outstanding.
And, of course, the spontaneous benevolence will continue for the forthcoming decades, with the nation voluntarily paying for the rebuild.
Why can’t governments realise they are not the solution, they are the problem?
Deborah, Reagan's ghost called. He wants his hoary 80's cliche back.
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Legal Beagle: Hidden in plain sight, in reply to Christopher Wingate,
Regulatory control is set by the government who are advised by the lawyers who are employed by the bankers
Yeah yeah, and they're all in it with the Illuminati.
I don't want the government to regulate what I can spend my money on, or regulate what banks can lend me money to buy. I won't be alone. So what would regulation achieve, exactly, other than to piss me right off by interfering with how I spend my money? -
Legal Beagle: Hidden in plain sight, in reply to Christopher Wingate,
Lawyers need to start asking why is New Zealand failing, now the 3rd most indebted nation is the OECD.
Probably because we borrow like mad to buy houses, cars, and other domestic goods and services. Lawyers have SFA to do with it, and neither does the Government. Our debt is largely private, not public, Shon Key's conflations of the two notwithstanding.
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Heather Gaye,
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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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Heather Gaye,
That would require a competent Opposition. So far they seem to be MIA.
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Kath & Kim ambitious.
You mean "embishus", in the manner of a Shon Key. Right?
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Sacha,
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 :| -
OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Steve Barnes,
[Key] is made of the same stuff... cheese.
Ah, but what sort? Edam? Parmesan? Gouda? Feta? Gourmet voters want to know!
Where's a Wishartian expose when you need one?
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Kumara Republic,
there is somehow money for ... a sporting tournament of dubious profitability?
That one's very definitely not National's fault. Labour signed that contract, and it's not the kind of thing that you can suddenly say "Yeah, sorry, we're a bit too broke" even 18 months out from the kick-off date, never mind fewer than six.
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to shagensis,
if you reduce the workforce, how does efficiency or productivity increase?
Doing the same with less is a productivity increase., which is what they'll be expecting of NIWA.