Posts by Bart Janssen
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Sacha,
Way more folk read than comment
You know it would be nice to have more of them join in.
I have said that one of the things I most value about this community is the diversity of voices. I'd love to see more of them - providing they don't post about Wham :P.
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Russell Brown,
reportedly disturbs 2 glasses of Pinot
Nope my glass did not spill at all.
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Lilith __,
Oh you can laugh but she is the National rep for my electorate :(
And dammit I didn't even feel it.
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Sue,
I would like to sponsor megan on a megan/emma/bart drunk shopping trip in auckland. As long as it’s tweeted
They may need sponsorship - I have been known to strongly encourage use of credit cards.
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
a nice new volcano in Auckland would give us some variety
Excuse me - we have quite enough volcanoes at the moment thanks - you do know middle America is due a really big one soon (that is in the next 10000 yrs or so)
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confirmation of my brain WOF
And you can bury this all you like but for us this is SUCH good news!!!!
And while I don't do twinkly, I do do hugs. Looking forward to your visit.
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to recordari,
I counted at least 9
hush ... he does words not numbers
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Russell Brown,
even passing strangers remarked on her delicacy
phwoar she looks tasty?
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Bear in mind....
Tower was government owned originallyYup. And when it was I had my insurance with them.
As for the need for (international) reinsurance, the EQC already does that so I see no real change except the local companies would have a competitor that did not have the profit imperative and instead could have the goal of providing insurance.
Shock/horror an insurance provider whose aim was to provide insurance.
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The argument for the longest time is that the government has no business becoming involved in things like insurance and banking because the free market does it much better.
However it has become clear that "better" depends very much on perspective.
Given the enormous success of ACC, in spite of it's many flaws and absurdities it has done a much better job of compensating people for accident and injury than any private system in the world.
And given the evolving disaster that is private insurance in CHCH.
Then surely there is a strong case for a government run insurance scheme in New Zealand. Expanded out from the EQC to completely cover losses from disasters and maybe even more. Such an entity could then have the focus of "insuring New Zealanders against loss" rather than maximising profit.
Of course it would compete (unfairly) against commercial insurance companies but frankly after their performance in CHCH I really have no sympathy for those poor commercial entities.