Posts by mark taslov
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why not fight to the death?
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Repairing waihope kevla dome $1M
Processing three saboteurs $1000
Reading about it in New Idea $3Wall surrounding Bamiyan Buddha destroyed by NZ forces...
Priceless.
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RIP Mr Hoffman, reminds of the three hours spent last october appreciating this:
http://www.fineartbrokers.com/media/wdfabMedia/degas-marty.JPG
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should read 'Tuesdays to $6'.....
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Much as i enjoy a good satire, I don't condone or support these attacks. Unlike yourself I'm not happy to put myself in the position of judge. These people with their sickles,highlighted major deficiencies in domestic intelligence in the protection our country and assets.
They showed up the arrogant naivety of a government under who's watch we've seen a planejacking,(due to a falling through of cracks in the mental health system), the detention and unkiwi beating in custody of alleged terrorists; and the subsequent failure of anti-terror legislation to do what it was designed to do. We've found New Zealand superannuation was paying it's way via weapons' production. We've learnt first hand what a good tasering does to the urinary tract, and now, this attack - on a vital intelligence gathering resource: That you even surmise, may be essential in the protection of our servicemen and women overseas.
This is stuff we needed to know. People need to know if the Government is or isn't pulling it's weight in protecting our assets, and this is clearly not the case.
Now the tax payer must pay $1million dollars +
Did the government adequately insure this strategic resource? From that figure it would seem not. as AS mentioned on the previous, this money could be used to pay for:
...hip operations, and cataract ops, and special education services, and refugee resettlement work, or disability allowance...
I'm not clear if the government has followed the traditional British model of not insuring public buildings or if they have been paying premiums towards a questionable insurance coverage, which still requires the payment of a $1M deductible towards the reparation of damage to this obviously very expensive bubble.
Either way, why they didn't adequately protect and defend this obvious target, which seems peculiar when they wasted a good deal of money last year debating the specifics of laws to detain terrorists, laws to curb freedom of political expression, (and this year) laws to clarify the illegality of making mix tapes for your mates- is beyond me.
I hate to say it, but his seems to be ever so slightly shit management of the country. So no point getting het up about the protagonists when by all reports it took nothing more than child's play to incur over $1million dollars in damage, that's coming out of NZers' salaries.
Didn't Russell set the ball rolling, outlining methods to help alleviate poverty for low income workers? Did Sue not say:
in wellington it is cheaper to buy Tow 1 liter bottles of milk than one 2 liter bottle
Hasn't Mexicali upped the price for Taco Tuesdays $6?
Hasn't Hell Pizza changed their "BBQ pork ribs" to half the amount for $1 extra?
Is flat-rate internet really a sham?(I never even heard of nonflat-rate till reading Hard News blog)
Haven't New Zealander's been promised tax cuts next year, every year of this Labour government?
can these dots not be joined Malcolm?
In a successful business, these ploughshares,are what we callConsultants
, and what they have done is show up these government mugs (with excellent media training) as doing a slightly lesser job than their egos would possibly care to admit to. Once again.
You can vote them in, but no, you can't vote them out.
Introducing civil unions and nothing else good is not IMHO a legacy to be proud of.
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I hear what you're saying about the hopes of retaining the cup tourism, but wouldn't that money have been better spent schmoozing the owners of the competitor yachts, so that when those private companies won they'd hold it here anyway?
seriously, if the government has that much money to throw around on sport. and longshort tourism, what's $1m for a giant condom, and furthermore, whoever quoted that price saw the government coming, why not let NZ companies bid for the rights to mend the holes?
whole thing reeks of croneyism. I'm sure I could find a company here who'd fix those holes for the half the price the government is gonna force the tax payer to pay.
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still only 1/26 of what kiwis forked out for 5 years ago for a losing sailboat.
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that's 26 pops at a waihope balloon.....
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When I hear The Rt Hon CLarker saying it was senseless because of the cost to the taxpayer, all that comes to mind is $26M and a broken sailboat. It's nothing like burning down a school. It's like cutting through a school trampoline.