Posts by Kumara Republic
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Why was she selected by Bennett with very little consultation when she WASN'T one of the four people recommended for the job?
I believe the words "faith" and "based" fit somewhere.
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The irony of hiring bureaucrats to sack bureaucrats... something straight out of Yes, Minister.
But as 70 jobs were axed at ACC yesterday, the cost of the handpicked razor gang appointed to help the Government find savings was under fire. It was revealed that former Treasury secretary Graham Scott is paid $2000 a day to work from home as Mr English's adviser.
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Wellington Great blend event. Did it happen and I missed it?
For some reason I seem to recall that something was supposed to happen in may
Haven't heard anything of it so far.
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"Message to Substandard & Poorly's: you don't run NZ, NZers do!"
Seriously, at the next possible opportunity, if anyone of us can appear on TV and put a copy of the S&P report through a paper shredder - live on TV - I can't think of a starker gesture of disapproval.
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Similarly, Evander Holyfield almost certainly anticipated having his head punched a few times when he stepped into the ring with Mike Tyson. But he probably wasn't thinking that the fight would end with his ear missing.
Nuclear Teeth vs the Real Meal (may be NSFW):
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Sacha:
Sorry Scott I don't have the energy tonight to dig up references, but it's pretty widely talked about that one of the prizes of the merger is access to the $28b of combined assets - including the water ones, with their global market for privatisation. South Africa is another unfortunate example.
Battle of Cochabamba, anybody?
I suppose it makes sense if you want to run a Council like a business to free up cash now by flogging off large and marketable assets like that. The new Council may need that cash to pay for the nine figure transition costs - and to keep rates down if Mr Hide persuades the Nats to back his TABOR-style proposal.
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Chris N:
They also waste hundreds of thousands of dollars that could be spent on helping children/families and take away media attention from real charitable organisations that could desperately use it.
And support people like C Rankin when they call for these organisations to be boycotted.Russ:
Yes, Graeme, those things were "nice" -- but for me they don't compare to the real day-to-day work of child welfare agencies, and they certainly don't trump McCoskrie's horrible dissembling and equivocation on behalf of people who really hurt their children.
Some people are still trying to flog a horse that died in 1960.
It's been said before, but those same people are hiding behind children's issues as an excuse to farm culture war pigs.
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And Mr Key's "NZ has a growth problem, not a debt problem" has been conveniently overlooked by the usual suspects.
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From what I've heard on Good Morning this morning it seems like Standard and Poors have had played a large part in the makeup of this weeks budget. They even get a look at the final draft before anyone else. Do they own the country now?
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We have a blog post ready to go, but we can't post it here yet, sorry. The new protocol requires that we show it to either Standard and Poors or David Farrar first.
The same Standard & Poors that's being investigated by the Securities & Exchange Commission?
I'd suggest you privatise the health system, implement an annual poll tax and introduce segregated schooling forthwith.
And then you'll have enough money left over to hire your Uzi-equipped bodyguards who'll chauffeur you in a bulletproof Hummer.