Posts by Kumara Republic
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There is a rational middle ground, isn't there?
In an ideal world, there would be. Unfortunately, some burning issues, like Laura Norder, have deteriorated into a U-shaped curve where neutrality or shades of grey are drowned out.
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James Bremner:
If you were an Iranian would you want to protect yourself from the nutter who killed over at least a million of your people from 1980 to 1988?
Then how do you account for this (from 1983 BTW)?
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The workforce isn't an amorphous blob. Not even the flexible workforce. A cleaner is not (necessarily) going to be able to drill concrete, a call centre worker can't suddenly drive a crane, and a receptionist won't turn into a fibre-optics technician overnight.
My thoughts exactly. Is there an unwritten social class divide that we've pretended never existed? Could it be the financial barriers in the way of upskilling?
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Vigilants combat boy racers with... foam.
Who can forget this little gem?
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On the Iraq issue, I'd say there'll be an increased role for multi-lateralism, aux Afghanistan, Timor or Bosnia.
And the ChCh boy racer plot thickens. Does it reinforce what we know already, or is it a media-beatup, or both?
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The projects themselves have a value, of course. But the indirect benefit that a cleaner in Christchurch receives from roads in Auckland is pretty bloody indirect. Sometimes, spending money is just spending money.
And is there such a thing as an infrastructure project that would benefit the nation as a whole, rather than just a single region like Auckland or ChCh? In Britain 150 years ago it was the rail network, but it helped that they had the economy of scale for the task.
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Stan Gable (Arizona)
Nerds like Einstein are a threat to our way of life!
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And apparently Ian Wishart thinks the boy racer problem is all the fault of the "bloody wimmin".
On a wider scale, would things have to go Greek before people are jolted to their senses?
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Craig:
Balls, Rich. More like middle-class twats who vote took on debt they couldn't realistically service to buy grossly over-valued property, and I don't think anyone would find it politic to say "well, sometime you roll the dice and get snake eyes, suck it up."
It seems that right now there's little point in keeping up with the Joneses, when they've just been paid a visit by the foreclosure agent and the repo men all at once. Poetic justice.