Posts by Bart Janssen
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Speaker: Why Auckland, and New Zealand,…, in reply to Sacha,
the project needs to be sold way more compellingly
Oh good just what we need a marketing team.
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OnPoint: 3 News Exclusive Investigation…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I totally assumed that it was a joke. Did you not?
Didn't have a lightness to it that one might connect with a joke. But I could be wrong, he might be a charming chap who even gives girls the opportunity to do his filing for him in their heels and miniskirts and I might have just had a humour fail.
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This!
When we walked around the North Wharf and the new Wynyard Quarter it really felt like Auckland had grown up. Real cities have restaurants on the waterfront. Real cities have public spaces by the water.
Real cities also have viable public transport.
Oh and one political party has promised to support it while another has promised to oppose it.
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As for the 3news story. Did anyone actually mention that the whole frigging point of a government is to spend money. If we didn't need them to spend money on things like education we wouldn't need them at all.
profitable government
military intelligence
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OnPoint: 3 News Exclusive Investigation…, in reply to Samthecat,
Personally having had to spend 10 years working my way through a law degree in the 70’s I would have loved a student loan. It still makes me snicker when I get the youngsters in my office complaining about their student loans while signing up to buy a used car from a finance house. My standard line is “One of these things is an investment in your future, and it ain’t the car”. They pay no heed.
I did my degrees in the 80s. There were no bloody fees! Sure books cost a LOT some of them were almost $30. And rent was nearly $25 a week for my room! Going to University in the 70s or 80s was essentially a free ride. Something for which I am always grateful.
Yes I worked multiple part time jobs and no I couldn't afford a car.
But to dismiss the burden of that debt for the students of today is to demonstrate such an amazing lack of empathy that it leaves me sad for those who have to work for you.
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It is entirely possible to take one sensible step without then immediately making subsequent stupid steps.
It would be nice if those arguing against the fruit and veg exemption actually stuck to the argument, but every discussion seems to be about things that are not actually being proposed.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Sacha,
Those stories are still really important to understanding
You mean like history as a valuable science :).
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Hilary Stace,
'breeding for a business' which are eugenic dog-whistles
Any time someone raises this I want them to show actual data.
Not anecdotes, not my sister's workmate has 3 cousins who ...
But actual data, real numbers of mothers who have say more than 3 children and are on the DPB and have never worked. And with that real numbers on the actual costs.
It seems to me that if those numbers were high then we'd actually get them shown to us, instead we get emotive phrases and anecdotes which suggests the numbers are effectively meaningless in our social welfare structure.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to ,
could lower life expectancy for some
That would be impossible to show. No way the experiment will be done and no way to control for differences in health care as a result of changing budgets.
An equally unprovable and untestable statement would be
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to linger,
Also a sweet victory to trounce a ‘proper’ hockey team.
Depends what you mean by “proper” I suppose.
Back when my knees didn't hurt I played basketball a lot. The team we most feared was the association for the deaf team. They were brutal and they had skillz. I'm sure it was just chance that they were all good players AND hard players.