Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Sandra Simpson,
Sandra, have you tried printing yet? The separate print stylesheet for the new site should really strip out navigation text, graphic headers and suchlike.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Stephen Judd,
the neolib wisdom is that it's always best that governments don't own things
And as Gordon Campbell observed:
In the circumstances, the fact that our captains of industry dare to lecture the public about the innate superiority of private sector performance is simply breathtaking.
The opposition needs to find some balls and proclaim loudly and repeatedly that the emperor has no clothes.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to George Darroch,
The disgustingly discriminatory secondary tax rate still applies, right?
And why hasn't any government tackled it?
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No doubt a coincidental story that our legacy of leaky schools will cost $1.5b to fix.
"There just isn't the money to go out and borrow one-and-a-half-billion dollars and start repairing schools," Mrs Tolley said.
She planned to consult Finance Minister Bill English on getting more cash, but would also have to look at paring back existing education programmes.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Lyndon Hood,
Also, if nobody else has said it, here's Gordon C from yesterday.
Thanks. Worth a read. And concise.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Paul Campbell,
the rich pay more tax than the rest of us
No, they don't. I'll leave that one up to Keith or others. Been tackled here many times in the past, but the amount of dodging is striking.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Given the subtle corruption of the ratings agencies leading up to the GFC
Including the geniuses threatening the credit downgrade that trader Key is jumping to avoid.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
What is missing is the dynamic element of agents receiving income from some source (exports, if we are looking at NZ as a whole in the current account context).
That's what I was saying earlier - there's no focus on the income side of the ledger in Key's public pronouncements so far about this. And you do need to consider both to know whether it's a good idea.
This government has a dangerously weak understanding of sovereignty and of governance rather than management. You've seen that play out in their actions with Auckland and Canterbury's regional democracies, for instance, and their abject unprincipled cronyism in many decisions.
Having said that, the return on extra investment in early childhood education is so high that if the government were proposing to sell off stakes to fund *that* it would make the opposition's job harder.
But my main objection remains the sad lack of ambition in hocking some of the family silver to pay for dinner. It's forked.
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Amy Gale,
electric kettles can be obtained. They just don't seem to be common anywhere that doesn't have a critical mass of foreigners.
What do the locals make their instant with? :)
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
I finally figured out it was morning/afternoon tea time - while people had coffee breaks there was no assigned time or place to all sit down and drink tea/coffee
I remember the opposite experience of the utter novelty of being asked to join the collective teabreak in the staff cafeteria after years of scoff at your desk or escape the building when you can fit it in.