Posts by Steve Barnes
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Now. To give you all the warm fuzzies there is.....
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to mark taslov,
[Dalek voice]
Must build more houses
Must tax property speculators
Must raise minimum wage
Exterminate... Exterminate...
Self destruct...
Self destruct....Fuxed it for you :-P
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
That doesn’t occur by only failing to make Josephine Average understand the message. It suggests that she actually dislikes the message (or what she perceives as the message).
As in what she is told to think by wavey smiley people "the world will end if the loony left and the grizzling greens get in so Party on and vote National party party vote"
Wavey John, he's cool, party on dude... -
Steven, that was truly awful. Blubber everywhere... yuk..
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Michael Meyers,
I've found that Cunliffe has grown on me during the campaign. Seemed a lot more statesman-like than Key
Just think how much Shearer would have grown on you by now.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
it’s ‘Mum & Dad investors’
There used to be a lot more of them before the GFC. GFC, so similar to JFK, phonically enough and I don't mean John Fitzgerald...
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Dominant Male says: "Yeah, gidday. I'd like to vote. Uh, I mean... Hi. I want to vote. Yolo?"
Doris the deputy returning officer looks down at the electoral roll, then looks up at Dominant Male.
Doris the deputy returning officer laughs until there are tears streaming down her face."More votes for National" she thinks as she spies the 6 foot three, muscular, Grandmother behind him.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to David Hood,
(I've also got the party vote for each electorate at the same time, but haven't had time to do anything with that yet).
That may prove to be very interesting, that is where I see a possible anomaly.
This is interesting, from Papakura. Nat party vote 15,705. COLLINS, Judith 14,001. 1704 Papakura National voters don't like Collins. -
The problem I had with CGT was simply how it was going to be calculated. Say you inherit a house from your Grandfather, as it is a family asset the family had gained nothing and if that house were sold to buy, say, a larger house then the profit, if any, should be calculated as anything over and above market value taking into account the cost of the larger property adjusted for actual current value. This is the same, if not similar, to the way the Family home is regarded. If, however the inherited home is sold and the beneficiary pockets the proceeds is it regarded as "Profit"? and therefore taxed? I am not sure but I suspect that is the way voters saw it.
My point comes back to a simple question. Who should benefit from advances gained by our ancestors, our forefathers, our family?.
I would hold that the advances and improvements of previous society is the property of current society but the image we see is that of an elite exploiting those societal assets for the benefit of the few, not the true owners, society as a whole.
This is why a Universal wage is required. A great number of job in modern society are non productive admin jobs doing nothing but keeping the outdated Protestant Work Ethic driven society going. A true and fair sharing of a social wealth would allow people to actually enjoy life itself and not just survival and therefore competitive behavior and conflict.
So do we take a little from the distribution of family wealth? Well that depends where that family accrued that wealth and how.
Accidentally posted this unfinished so had to sum up rather fast.
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National will claim, of course, that the New Zealand public gave them a mandate to do whatever they claim they campaigned on. The public want one year fire at will, the public want no tea breaks, the public want to scrap the RMA and have a developer build a 9 story apartment building between them and the sun.
The TPPA will be passed without discussion, after all, what is the point of discussing it if we are going to pass it as is anyway?. DotCom will be extradited to the US of fucking eh! and spend most of his life awaiting “trial” Cameron Slater will be given a knighthood and Judith Collins will return as Justice Minister.
The people will wail there will be a gnashing of teeth and at the end of the day John Key will lie to us all and we shall love him.
I shall not. I will strive to show the people that their eyes have been stolen, their fingers burned and their tongues cut out.
I shall despair.