Posts by Steve Barnes
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OnPoint: Spending "Cap" is Fiscal Anorexia, in reply to merc,
…suddenly, somewhere in an upper floor office, a little red light lit up brightly on a console…
and then it blinked and everyone missed it :)
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Any time you get a minority running a country, in this case the rich and their sycophants, you will see a desperate majority divided and crushed by that minority's power.
When people rose up in the 60's', against war, poverty and corruption, how long was it before the divisions evolved in the guise of the Green movement, feminism and gay rights. People are people and real people care. We do not need those divisions, we do care about the environment, we do care about women and we do care about vulnerable minorities. Most of all we care about justice for all and not the greed of the few.
So stop with the bickering. We need to pull together to defeat the power-hungry elite, we need to stand strong against these dangerous and powerful people.
Brothers and sisters... WE share the same dream.</gets off soapbox and runs away before the smiling assassin rears his daemonic head>
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Tim Hannah,
Those buggers gave National a second term, which is surely a greater sin than electing Nikki Kaye.
It is an equal sin, 50% of the seats are electorate seats.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Joshua Arbury,
I’m annoyed that more Green party voters didn’t give their electorate vote to Jacinda Ardern, because I think that getting rid of Nikki Kaye would have sent a really important message to National
Even if you ignore the rail project, the sentiment sums up what I have been trying to say nicely.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Sacha,
And yes, that's a prime example of the contempt for the public that has been rewarded yesterday.
How many times do I have to remind you that I was not running for Parliament?
It is more akin to saying...
" the contempt for the public has been justified by yesterday's result"
It is National that shows the true contempt, a lack of understanding of the needs of the country.
They continually tell us that we can't afford to support the most needy members of our society but, somehow, we can still afford the rich. -
Welcome to the new slavery
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It lives
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Sacha,
You show little sign of understanding how the electorate and party votes relate under MMP. You might want to remedy than before making any further pronouncements about it.
I obviously understand more than you do. An electorate vote is for an electorate, a party vote is for a party. Which bit don't you get?.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Clint Fern,
You appear to be blaming the Greens for the failure of the Labour Party machinery to turn its vote out.
Not blaming the Greens, blaming the ignorant voters.
