Posts by James Littlewood*
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Hahahahahaha! The Greens wouldn’t know class if it bit them on the backside. Typically self-righteous of them though.
Seriously? I don't think that's very fucking funny.
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The curious thing is that Labour has actually done a lot right in the past year.
They do a lot right a lot of the time. But not since big-shoes Lange have they had a leader who people feel they _know_.
I've long felt Jacinda is that person. She oozes compassion, even when (and maybe, mostly) when she's angry.
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If you had an unemployment benefit, and decided to apply zero abatements for additional income, would that not be like a baby step towards UBI?
Meanwhile students are positively encouraged to work on a benefit granted them specifically to relieve them of the need to work.
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to Russell Brown,
His diction
Q1: briefed much?
*gulps* Not formally no.
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What a pack o scum.
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Hard News: Every option has costs, every…, in reply to Lynn Yum,
what happened in and since 2013-2014
For one thing the govt released the handbrake. And about that time the Christchurch rebuild would have been kicking into top gear.
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Hard News: Every option has costs, every…, in reply to poop poop,
Don’t you think NZ is great because it has a small population?
Reckon. Sort of. It's also what makes us kinda suck.
If there's a magic number that balances the need for in-demand labour categories against growing infrastructure costs, I'd really like to see it.
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Hard News: Mike Moore: A pretty ordinary…, in reply to Tinakori,
has a tendency to leap from part thought to part thought without an effective segue.
Got as far as when he bemoans the "Marxist detour", and claims there are no blue collar workers any more, and that unions make up only 10% of the workforce.
That's not just a lousy segue. That's
a) an outrageous and misleading exaggeration (no workers)
b) an omission of the fact that low union membership is not a lack of workers, but a result of his government's policy and action to dismantle unionsAs Clive James said of Albert Speers, "He said something, but I couldn't tell what, because his mouth was full of butter, and it wasn't melting."
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Seems nice, candid, thoughtful, insightful even.
But being Labour Party policy doesn't make the TPP any more attractive.
I don't care that this puts me onside with the great orange man baby. It stank.
Since Rogernomics, about which Moore is both blase and defensive, the steady increase in power given to employers over workers has resulted in the ever growing increase in wealth inequality. Or, as he puts it, adding to Kirk's dictum: more people with nothing to lose.
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Aucklanders are wage slaves forced to live in far flung suburbs many miles from where they work in crummy underpaid jobs while their bosses do cushy innercity commutes.
Still more cruelly much of the public transport infrastructure is of most benefit to people who live centrally. The further out you go, the more dispersed PT becomes.
Many thousands of us sat burning fossil fuels on the NW last night for way too long. Bah.