Posts by Sacha
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Something along the lines of the British social development bonds perhaps or the voucher type system the Productivity Commission has just proposed
They seem to be in the correct phase of the NZ bonds pilot, but I reckon vouchers are more likely. Bonds involve someone who matters taking responsibility. They'd rather palm that off to electorally-irrelevant disabled people and our families to minimise the political risk when something goes wrong.
However the current service system is so broken that vouchers may actually be a disruptive improvement - but only if they're implemented alongside investment in market information and advocacy mechanisms. And whoever sets the value of the vouchers will still have too much control of the results.
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Mostly, however, there are bits and pieces of services of variable quality
And no genuine mechanisms to inform purchasers about that. It's a pseudo-market like so many others.
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Hard News: Will the grown-ups ever…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
So what the hell does it take for Currie to be put on permanent gardening leave until his contract runs out?
so wish I knew.
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Hard News: Will the grown-ups ever…, in reply to EE,
or a neoliberal neutron bomb
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5466 is the magic number
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Envirologue: Too Big to Fail – Why…, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
Sadly the liberals have been spending their time counteracting the well funded denial apparatus for many wasted years.
And in so many other areas. The Standard is a classic example of how much energy the left wastes reacting to rubbish rather than organising against it.
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Envirologue: Too Big to Fail – Why…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
For New Zealand it's as simple as deciding that "no thanks we don't want to fuck up our environment" and voting accordingly. No impossible ideological revolution required.
Only if NZ wasn't so thoroughly embedded in a neoliberal world system - and about to strengthen that by signing up to TPP. Wish you were correct, I really do.
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Envirologue: Too Big to Fail – Why…, in reply to Stamper Stamp,
I still don't see the scientific relationship between Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming and CO2
you could take that up with a therapist, perhaps
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Speaker: Christchurch: how did it come…, in reply to Robert Fox,
If only the Press would get stuck into central govt with the ease it seems to lay into the council
Guess they see where the real power lies, eh. Cowards.
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Hard News: Anzac Day II, in reply to Tinakori,
that's impressive.
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