Posts by Sacha
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Emma Hart,
especially for the way you didn't just breeze on and pretend you didn't say it
gold
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
There were so many comments like this after Katrina. Mostly in geek forums. I imagine it's from a lack of understanding of how cities are formed.
Or a lack of empathic ability.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to nzlemming,
Sometimes, you look at a blog comment and think "Dang! I’d like to retweet that!”
+1
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This from Cunliffe is more like it.
The budget will be a success if it shows that National has realised it cannot go on as it has: borrowing and splurging on tax cuts for the wealthy, then asking the rest of us to pick up the bill.
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A successful Budget will be one that confronts the fundamental problems of this country's economy head on, rejects the "borrow and hope" mantra of John Key's National Government, and protects important public services while asking all Kiwis to contribute their fair share to the cost.
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It wouldn't pretend that selling public assets to tackle Government debt makes any more sense than selling your house for scrap to pay off your mortgage.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to nzlemming,
maybe we can get the Māori Party to realise that the RoNS are no good either
The equivalent would be every transport sector org (other than the trucking one) also complaining publicly that the Minister has lost the plot.
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Lilith __,
they vibro-compacted the land around the Bromley treatment plant
With one of these?
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Sacha,
broadband is hardly a quagmire yet apparently our captains of industry need relief from regulation for a decade
As if to ruin my example, Joyce backs down on that plan in favour of a PPP risk-share arrangement suggested by the Maori Party. Still means taxpayers indemnify Telecom et al if the Commerce Commission sees a need to regulate prices lower than those contracted at the outset. Socialise those losses..
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Russell Brown,
part of me regards the sheer breadth of Mr Haywood's skillset as bordering on the indecent.
Great jacket quote (or job reference)
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Rex Widerstrom,
How come free marketeers lose faith in the market's ability to provide solutions when the issue is a sticky, moralistic one?
Business as usual isn't it? For instance, broadband is hardly a quagmire yet apparently our captains of industry need relief from regulation for a decade after a couple gouging us all and exporting the profits. Pussies.
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to bmk,
people on minimum wage are substantially better off than beneficiaries as they receive the In Work Credit and beneficiaries don't
That was the whole Third Way justification, yes. Nothing to do with 'need'.
More generally, it amazes me that no one held Labour to account for leaving benefit levels largely where Ruthless Richardson put them relative to wages.