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Pete George
/ 3rd August 2020Corky
/ 3rd August 2020I’m a beneficiary of this Trust Board, but I think it’s wrong that council has ceded some of their responsibilities to Iwi. Are Iwi being paid? Who is libel should someone file court proceedings?
What we are seeing is the dismantling of democracy as we know it. I can’t remember ratepayers voting for a quasi subsidiary of the council.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/08/council-hands-off-functions-to-iwi-for-the-first-time.html
Alan Wilkinson
/ 3rd August 2020Follow the money. The iwi could have monitored water quality whenever they liked but now the ratepayers are paying them for it. And having captured a now uncontested market the price will surely rise.
Patzcuaro
/ 3rd August 2020Sounds like normal business practice, I’ve never known business to give up a monopoly voluntarily.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 3rd August 2020Normal business practice would be to set up a company and compete for the contract. Or in this case which is surely only a few hours work per week an individual would be hired to do it.
But here we have a political exercise and favoured nation operating in a very bizarre fashion.
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020treat these people ,the same way people in their position would be treated in their own countries.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/122307774/backpackers-beg-for-visa-extension-fearing-covid19-if-they-have-to-leave-nz
Alan Wilkinson
/ 3rd August 2020Somehow it is ok to expect kiwis to be able to travel freely overseas and to prevent others from doing the same here.
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020heres another one …send the sprogue off with the grandparents and now can’t live without him…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/122326672/coronavirus-parents-desperate-to-get-their-toddler-back-from-india
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020They sent him ahead so that he could spend time with the grandparents, but then the borders closed and he was stuck there. They were all going to India for a wedding.
Most people do want to have their children with them.
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020So what!
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020So your comments were misleading and spiteful, making it seem as if they have dumped the baby on the grandparents and now changed their minds.
lurcher1948
/ 3rd August 2020Mr John Banks,is flying the flag for the people aligned to the right,on National Magic radio…a new ringmaster but the same general hatred of Prime Minister Ardern…around and around the frustration from the right grows
Corky
/ 3rd August 2020I’m just listen to the woman@ No3 on the ACT list. A quality interview. Banksie is a star. One of the greatest RIGHTIES our nation has produced.
After listening to this woman, Banksie has opined that she will be in parliment and maybe we need more Maori woman with 4 kids in parliment.
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020what would he know….a disgusting individual.
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020Corky, please do John Banks the basic courtesy of using his real name.
Duker
/ 3rd August 2020What about John Banks son … born out of wedlock, was he allowed to have his fathers name, some other details showed Banks as the ‘upstanding politician’ was re inventing himself
Corky
/ 3rd August 2020Banksie has said on numerous occasions that’s how he likes to be addressed.
However, never with a Y when written. Some people like to play to Pete. As to his son, didn’t he want the mother to have an abortion? Wasn’t that a responsible position to take given he didn’t want to be a dad? We see the results of unwanted children everyday in our society.
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020If he says so, that’s different.
Does Mike Hosking call himself ‘Mikey’ ?
Duker
/ 4th August 2020Corky is quite right.
His fund raising cheques he collected personally said Team Banksy, despite him signing his election return as every single large donation was anonymous
Corky
/ 3rd August 2020ON…TO..IT!
Blazer
/ 4th August 2020Banks is now irrelevant…and [deleted unsupported personal assertion]
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020for Al…
‘”For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the world has very little liking. He is always unpopular, and not infrequently his unpopularity is so excessive that it endangers his life . . . In no field can he count upon a friendly audience, and freedom from assault. Especially in the United States is his whole enterprise viewed with bilious eye. The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
__ H.L. Mencken
Alan Wilkinson
/ 3rd August 2020Trump is clearly the most detested politician in the US, B, and Obama the most admired.
Think that fits?
Pink David
/ 3rd August 2020I used to think Mencken was too cynical. I don’t anymore.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 3rd August 2020Environmental alarmism debunked by an honest environmentalist.
https://reason.com/2020/08/01/the-global-environmental-apocalypse-has-been-canceled/
Griff.
/ 3rd August 2020Still pushing that nut bar and his bullshit Alan
He is only interesting to a fringe of poorly informed right wing weirdos
Especially as he pushes nukes
The worlds most communist energy source
Nukes are not possible without the state paying for them.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 3rd August 2020https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nuclear_power_companies_of_the_United_States
Alan Wilkinson
/ 3rd August 2020Teacher tribunal supports little shits rather than teacher:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12353136
Corky
/ 3rd August 2020”The decision said Cooney was often used at John Paul College to help other teachers when they were having difficulty with managing students’ difficult behaviour.”
How fucking sad is that?
All these little pricks need is a couple of warnings then the bash. No wonder the latest report has teachers under huge stress leading to illness. Yeah, because they can’t do anything to control the kids.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 3rd August 2020Little shits claim emotional harm from being disciplined. Yeah, right. Their emotional harm obviously long predates that and they are busy passing it on to others.
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020The idea of adults beating children up is abhorrent.
Discipline and violence are not synonyms. The use of the expression ‘the bash’ as an acceptable way for an adult to treat a child says something about Corky.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 3rd August 2020A 79 year old woman is not likely to cause a strapping teenager much damage.
Duker
/ 3rd August 2020“, one of the students started to laugh. Cooney slapped the student across his cheek with her right hand ”
She shouldn’t even be in the classroom if she cant retaliate in those circumstances.
From the sub context. she seems to be the ‘discipline teacher’ and I dont think its the first time, and would have been teaching in an era with the strap sitting on her desk to be used on face and hands etc immediately.
A friend of mine had the strap across the face …its out and out brutality
Corky
/ 3rd August 2020You are talking crap, Duker. A simple question: should a child after TWO WARNINGS be disciplined with corporal punishment…or should the teacher accept she/he will just have to put up with a misbehaving child?
Your answer will have wider national ramifications.
Corky
/ 3rd August 2020Add this to the mix.
https://www.schoolnews.co.nz/2019/01/why-we-are-quitting-teachers-reveal-all/
lurcher1948
/ 3rd August 2020Vote ACT…face a miserable future
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2020/08/03/vote-act-for-a-shattered-economy/
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020Do you think that millionaires should have the heating supplement ?
Vote Labour; double unemployment rate, land the country with a $140,000,000,000 debt, make people homeless because they can’t afford the mortgage, make people starve and need charity so that they have one meal a day.
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020Do you think millionaires should pay more tax?
Do you think millionaires should use tax havens?
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020They DO pay more tax than anyone else as a % and as an amount.
If you could legally avoid paying tax, would you refuse to do things like write things off against tax as I did as a self-employed person ? IRD instructed me about what costs I could set off against tax, and I wasn’t going to insist on paying the tax that they said I needn’t pay.
Why should people not use legal tax havens like having Swiss bank accounts and Jersey ditto ? Most countries act as tax havens; look it up.
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020I don’t need to ‘look it up’.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/3599029/Trade-Me-founder-Sam-Morgan-says-tax-burden-falls-on-workers
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020Where did the Daily Bog get all this about ACT from ? It appears nowhere else that I can see.
They want to reduce GST to 10% and cut income tax for middle earners as well as making those who lose their jobs better off with an income insurance of .55% that would be a tax write off and give the person 55% of their working income. They would be better off under this scheme than they are with the current WINZ payments.
Duker
/ 3rd August 2020Numbers dont add up with the so called insurance scheme….
lurcher1948
/ 3rd August 2020https://external.fpmr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQALUOR1vpEszpdk&w=584&h=306&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FEeY11mYU0AEQx6l%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3Dsmall&_nc_hash=AQDTB1hlgY1bL9tD
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020ACT is not proposing the things attributed to it by the Blog, needless to say.
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020Needless to say that ACT doesn’t want to rescind minimum wages. They want a delay in the increase, which is not the same thing, because of the current situation. Companies are having enough of a struggle without having to have even more costs. Increased wages, if they are too high, tend to lead to sinking lids. The massive increase in caregiver wages has meant that a local resthome has had to raise the rents of its units and studios to an extent where people have had to give these up and move into single rooms.
Why do people invent these absurd things about ACT and National ?
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020When is the increase due?
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020When Labour makes its mind up.
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020‘They want a delay in the increase,’….typical…making stuff up…again.
lurcher1948
/ 3rd August 2020Oops i forgot ACT want to rescind minimum wages, slaves you will earn less….thank David Seymour but you can have an AR15 under ACT
Corky
/ 3rd August 2020Well, of course. You don’t want a beast of burden suffering after its served its purpose. I get tired of people saying RIGHTIES don’t understand the working man.
lurcher1948
/ 3rd August 2020Here’s a beast of burden, Corky,far better than most national voting humans i know
https://scontent.fpmr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/s960x960/20507006_1627870650557404_4854428480575383383_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=2kqD0Ku4vBoAX-b8dz2&_nc_ht=scontent.fpmr1-1.fna&_nc_tp=7&oh=e3d9b46b2fd9cc6294c2564214e05135&oe=5F4B1F2F
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020See above; it’s a lie that ACT wants to rescind minimum wages. It went in the wrong place.
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020I don’t know who’s behind these lies about ACT, but it’s dirty politics.
Criticism is fair enough, but outright lies are unacceptable.
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020When did lying become unacceptable…so long as you raise an eyebrow its not a problem.
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020‘ Companies are having enough of a struggle without having to have even more costs. Increased wages, if they are too high, tend to lead to sinking lids. ‘
But increased bonus’ for management are o.k!
What/why are they struggling?
Kitty Catkin
/ 3rd August 2020Do try to keep up !!! We had a crippling lockdown earlier in the year; have you forgotten ? Did you not notice the effect that this had ?
Businesses had to close for almost two months. Did you fail to notice this?
Closed businesses don’t make any money. They had a wages sub (or some did) but they still have overheads like rents, power and hire of equipment that don’t stop just because the business is closed.
Unemployment has soared and that means that people don’t have the same amount of money to spend.
How did you manage not to hear about the lockdown and what it’s done to the economy ?
If you can’t tell the difference between a lie and a joke, there’s no point in trying to explain it.
Blazer
/ 3rd August 2020Just one example…Harvey Norman -record earnings -special 6c a share dividend.
Received 12.75 mil from the NZ Govt..though.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 3rd August 2020Stuff seems to have been running a good exposé of Gymnastics NZ. Some nasty people at the top from the accounts.