Posts by Steve Barnes
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Paul Williams,
Read between the lines Paul. John Key is “over it” he was “ambitious” for New Zealand, he got it, been there done that. Now he's off for a bigger slice of pie…
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
our illustrious PM will be having a weekly slot with Veitch on Radio Sport.
He really is going for the Rugby thug vote eh?
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The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has appointed FarmRight, a South Island-based dairy farming management and consultancy company, as an investment manager.
The Super Fund has also bought a dairy farm in West Otago, about 100 kilometres west of Dunedin, as it moves to execute its rural land strategy,
Herald
Farms? pah! How about power companies?. -
Just to see the back of Key... would be good enough for me...
Say it loud and say it proud "Phil Goff, Phill Goff" National may miss hear it... ;-) -
So. What do you think of John Key's resignation speech... ;-)
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And another thing. While we are discussing CGT, if I remember correctly and I do, CGT was originally described as a tax on "unearned" income, think about that for a second. Back in the day unearned income was seen as something bad, or at least undeserved and taxed accordingly and differentiated against "Earned" income such as wages. I don't suppose the ethics of the powers that be could allow them to understand that. They would more than likely call it an envy tax, as if we all desire to be greedy rich pricks.
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It is surprising how short peoples memories are, well those that vote for National anyway, perhaps we should rename National "The Alzheimer's Party" and urge all to vote for Labour, "Least We Forget".
I see now that Key and pals are suggesting making Kiwi Saver compulsory for the under fives or some such hair-brained scheme. Well that smacks of a U-turn on what they were saying a few months back but hey, what National voter would remember that? they'll be putting cross-hairs on election posters next.
Another thing folks seem to forget was jolly old Blinglish pillaging the public purse for the double Dipton family home, it's all in the attitude folks, that good old sense of entitlement all wrapped up in a double standard.
If we really do need to realise some cash from our infrastructure assets then why not get the Cullen fund to step into the breach, or Kiwi Saver funds, that way we get the best of both worlds, we would still own and control it. As it is the only reason I can see for flogging off the "family silver" is to allow Nationals "Friends of Significunts" to continue their endless raping of the Nation in the name of ideology, I think I'm being generous there, we used to call it greed and that was only good in the Eighties apparently.
I still think there is room for Nationalisation of strategic infrastructure, surely only a fool would allow the engine of a Nation to fall into the hands of foreigners?
National has shown us before that they can't be trusted with the Wealth of the Nation, look at the mess we inherited from the Muldoon Government, which left the Lange Government little choice than to find a way to bail us out, unfortunately there were those in the ranks that were corrupted by the desire to enrich themselves and play idealogical ping pong. Since that time National has used that scenario as a reason to put their slimy hands in our pockets and put the blame on Labour.
So "Least We Forget" National put us in the mess we are in now back in the Seventies, you can't trust them they are but liars and thieves. -
One point that has not been made is that the price of electricity is a major cost to business and industry. Much has been spouted about the positive effect on our economy by investing 1.5 billion in "Ultra Fast Broadband", a point I find rather dubious. Instead of stripping off vast chunks of our assets to pay for roads for doubtful significunts we should be nationalising the power companies and amalgamating them to improve efficiencies thus reducing overheads for businesses and industry, increasing profits and therefore the tax take. Reducing costs in this area. by removing the extortionate profits of power companies we would improve our export possibilities by reducing the cost of our goods thus increasing GDP.
Then, maybe, Ms Tolley could sleep at night not having to worry about repairing all those schools that are rotting from the last time this bunch of twats had a "brilliant idea" and reduced the costs of property developers. -
Cracker: Gimme Shelter, in reply to recordari,
Definitely saw evidence of the changed mentality Damian and others have covered here. I kept looking for the sheep dip.The coffee, as seems to be usual at the BDO, was fantastic. Well done whoever is in charge of that!
Ah, the sheep dip. I noticed this about three years back, the last time I attended the BDO, I commented to someone that the whole thing had turned into an A&P show and we were the cattle, herded around from sales point to sales point. The whole exercise was like a corporate monopoly state. You would think the event was organised by North Korean Breweries and the RIAA "You will drink our beer, you will buy our music...."
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Or change the RAF logo from a bullseye to crosshairs.
I can see it now... "Damn it, are those my cross hairs?. It's all so confusing..."
And just in case this hasn't been linked to... "Terror level rises: The English... have raised their security level from “Miffed" to,"Peeved."..."