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Neil - it may be even simpler than that.
National: "It's our job as opposition to keep the government honest (by attacking them at any opportunity"
Media: "It's our job on behalf of the public to keep the government honest (by attacking them at any opportunity)"
So... whose job is it to keep National honest?
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Why must this be cast as a personal attack rather than a policy attack?
The problem with all these "it must have been an error" parses is that in the entire response as transcribed, Key is making a consistent argument.
It just happens to be one that the majority of NZers do not want to hear, and would not support.He states -- in several ways -- that the only way wages should increase is to reflect increases in productivity. Otherwise, they should not be increased automatically, even in line with inflation, because that would add to the inflation. Thus Key "would love to see wages drop" because he believes they've been raised too much under the current government without productivity increasing.
Never mind that we will obviously be seeing real and continuing increases in cost of living, largely as a result of fuel prices (with increased transport costs then being reflected in prices of most food items). If Key would refuse wage increases under those conditions, he is condemning the majority of NZers to a decreased standard of living.
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Thanks Jose for the XKCD webcomic site reference.
Going back through its archive, I found one that adds to the Turing test described upthread. -
Why is that spin, rather than a statement of fact that we really don't know Key or what he stands for?
I suspect Key is benefitting, and will continue to benefit, from the admirable (mildly left-wing) NZ tenet that everyone should get an equal opportunity, translated here into an unexamined impression that "it's National's turn". Which is an extremely poor basis for choosing a government, particularly if the party thereby benefitting is less inclined to put that very principle into practice.
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oooh... just as a wild guess, but I'm betting the last thing you wanna do on hearing that line is start checking the coat for bulges.
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Ben: is there a particular season it's safe to land an airplane there?
Joanna: Too soon!Not being up with the local news (for obvious reasons; thanks Evan),
I'd read that as meaning that there hasn't been a safe season yet;
i.e. wait until the airport can be re-sited (after the next quake).As for
turning on the ladies around you in the same way that horror movies do
, yeah, most horror movies do have an alarming tendency to victimise their female cast members ... oh, you meant something else. Uh, they do? They are? Wow. Er. But still, can't say I've ever witnessed any grabbing on the way into Wellington. Clenching, maybe, but no grabbing.
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So they fill the air with noise, meaningless entertaining noise.
Could there be a more apt epitaph for this thread?
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@keith: surely that's "salaries are for purses"?
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IO:
[...] some ChCh chap who had returned from 6 years teaching in Japan with a wife, child, and $40k for a deposit
[...] I wondering how 'pathetic' his salary was that he couldn't get mortgage finance for a $235k loan. Teachers aren't that badly paid anymore[...]
There's a whole back story to this, I'm sure.
To be teaching in Japan for 6 years and only have $40k to show for it is a disaster. It almost certainly indicates he was teaching at a language school -- for which typical salaries are fairly close to subsistence level by urban Japanese standards -- rather than at a university. (Possibly the return to NZ at this time was occasioned by the collapse of the Nova language school.) It also suggests he may not be well qualified for teaching in NZ. Even the teaching experience thus gained won't be very relevant to NZ conditions, even in a Chch English language school, which would seem his most likely destination job. Which may explain why banks were less than enthusiastic. -
I'm sensing sarcasm. THAT'S IT, I'm taking my content and going home.
I'm sensing discontent.
What is 50% of zero silence? Hint: You won't find the answer in the noise.
But aren't the ads part of the signal too?