Posts by merc
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Hard News: Television and the Public Good, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I don't do Twitter for this very reason.
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Either fully commit to bicycle lanes that are fully safe and functional or don’t have them at all. Also we need a Govt. system that can approve or disapprove transparently this kind of intention.
Yes I think the funding model is broken and dysfunctional, we need a new system for funding and we need to make transparent any lobby groups. -
I'd like to see NZOnAir scrapped. It is being abused and is dysfunctional. Yes I am talking about shutting it down and placing the funds elsewhere.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sacha,
Ah thank you for that I should have remembered, my bad.
Functioning opposition, yes the opposition member did not speak well, indeed with MMP why does Labour construe as the opposition? I say cut out all that question time nonsense and the Speaker as well...
Gerry is taking the p*ss isn't he?
nzlemming; the local central Govt. divide is not helping anyone save those with vested interests, it is undemocratic and dysfunctional, time to let it go.
Yes I'm talking about a whole new Govt. model. -
From article,
Labour yesterday renewed calls for John Key's electorate chairman Stephen McElrea to quit the NZ On Air board after documents showed he backed $299,963 of cash for a documentary on the controversial Whanau Ora scheme.
So obvious that Key has Police onside and McElrea is compromised. My guess, nothing will happen except boys be richer. Political appointments are all political says Key, because parliament appoints them.
Brilliant, confidence restored. -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sacha,
Used to embed for me , thanks for that. Sadly also the law has been changed and Auckland Council is about to borrow http://www.interest.co.nz/bonds/57087/auckland-councils-overseas-borrowing-programme-first-nz-local-authority-set-us25-bln
All this does not bode well for any of us, Christchurch included.
nzlemming; I'd like to think that monosyllabic answers used at question time would be censured by the Speaker, or at least let it be known that Gerry is laughing in all our democratic faces.
Is there a war going on between central and local govt. that we need to know about?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/local-government/news/article.cfm?c_id=250&objectid=10783627
Is it time that we not only unified warring councils, that we also need to unify central and local govt. on governance? Is this the most significant improvement we could make towards economic stability? -
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6386900/Clown-comment-reflects-frustration-Brownlee
... I am sick and tired of the council running and telling people what we're going to do."
Some serious disconnect there.
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Hard News: Television and the Public Good, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Possibly the strangest blurt I have ever read from a politician in a local newspaper. I wanted to ask him if he actually wrote it himself, and if so, seriously, why is he in politics at all and not marketing?
How much do those boys, Joyce and Key spend on writers anyway?
A gem from said article,And very quickly we start limiting our options. Through the 2000s, as a country, we progressively boxed ourselves in more and more to depend on fewer and fewer industries based on what the “can’ts” said.
Can’ts can talk don’t you know.
Further,The reality is you don’t build an economy by lopping off an arm and both legs before you start. A small country like New Zealand has to make the best of all its natural advantages to lift incomes and give more people more chances to make it while staying right here.
The reality is you just need to use the right words to make it?
Lastly,We need to encourage the development of all of our opportunities if we are to prosper.
Genius. Mr Joyce you earned your pay by saying can’t today.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Sacha,
training paid for from taxes
/sacred cow dies/