Posts by Steve Barnes

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  • Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Islander,

    some researchers didnt believe human babies could feel pain – let alone apes & other mammals

    In this respect I must agree with the researchers. Human babies should not be feeling apes or other mammals, think of the bacteria,. Does nobody think of the children?

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  • OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Bart Janssen,

    governments in between forgot that and spent the money on other things “it’s OK we’ll pay it back later”.

    And we will. As you say "it is their money" and "We" said we would pay it back and we will, whether "We" like it or not.
    Waddaya gonna do? push the oldies off on an iceflow? not heard of Global warming? We have no choice, unless "we" are totally selfish and only interested in our own short term gain. Oh, I forgot. Most of us are, "we" voted for National.

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  • Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to andin,

    Research confirms

    That most researchers don't understand dogs.
    ;-)

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  • OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Sean Maitland,

    Um, Steve Barnes – when people become unemployed, they get a new job – they don’t just give up and spend the rest of their lives on the dole.

    Ah, yes, of course they do, they could stack shelves at the supermarket or play professional Rugby with other hunky chaps or some other job that can be done without engaging the brain. After all, why do we need people with skills in manufacturing stuff when we can have bread and circuses?.
    Get real son not every Austrian was Hitler and I suppose not every Sean Maitland is a rugby player and not every ex All Black becomes a real estate salesman.

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  • OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion,

    That's pretty much everyone in the workforce. So if everyone already gets something, how would more people get it?

    More people in the workforce under Labour?. Oops ;-)
    Anyway, as we all know, it is private debt that is the problem, not public debt. So, with Labour creating and retaining more jobs that problem is part solved.
    The rail car fiasco is a good example. Laying off workers because buying rail-cars from China is cheaper in the short term ignores the fact that those workers will become unemployed, therefore increasing their private debt burden at the same time as increasing welfare payments. This seems beyond the imagination of these Grabbit and Runn desk jockeys who claim to have the answers.

    the Right's belief that public servants can be squeezed indefinitely, and more efficiency will keep coming out.

    A nations economy cannot be based on workforce efficiency, I think a certain moustachioed Austrian chap proved that back in the late thirties. A functioning society relies on efficient use of resources and equitable distribution of income, the opposite of the aims of the Right.

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  • Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    Barnestorming… ;- )

    waif slops or Words Fail then Who ya gonna call?
    Dial Ali Zen
    Waifs Lord,
    With his Inlaid Zeal
    He will leave them Ill, In A Daze

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  • Speaker: Sharks Dine Out on…, in reply to Joe Wylie,

    Alan Bollard, then.And his ute.

    I think Darfield Charlie has done enough damage for one decade.

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  • Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Islander,

    Mononoke" is especially hard to get out your head...

    And Bukakei is hard to get out of your hair, these Japanese have some strange kinkies
    There you go, international smut...
    ;-)

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  • Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    “Warps of Soil"…

    Or...
    Liars swoop F...
    Aaaand.
    If we all pull together perhaps we could see the headline...
    "Pas Foils Row"

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  • Speaker: Sharks Dine Out on…, in reply to MikeC,

    Insurance are coming off well out of this.

    Indeed. What is happening here is a write-down of assets and liabilities, your assets, their liabilities, classic Capitalism.
    There is room for even more trickery. If an insurance company "writes off" your property, it becomes theirs and I am willing to bet that there will be a few houses in the "Red Zone" that will suddenly become "repairable" and the land declared "Stable" after the dust has settled a few years down the track.

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