Posts by Sacha
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OnPoint: Spending "Cap" is Fiscal Anorexia, in reply to Angus Robertson,
the USA and EU went into stimulus mode and we joined them (big tax cuts and roads for everyone)
Our government didn't do anything like their stimulus programmes, not even those top-skewed personal tax cuts or the bailout of South Canterbury Finance. Building highways benefits very few, and increasingly that's overseas-owned construction and supply companies.
we can't "counterbalance" a developed world economic slowdown
However, we could choose to invest our limited state funds in things more likely to create sustainable local jobs and export revenues rather than more of the laissez faire fairytale that English, Joyce, Key and chums still believe in.
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OnPoint: Spending "Cap" is Fiscal Anorexia, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
it's somehow character-building for cherries to have to stay in the company of whoever
Certainly not what I was getting at. Seems more likely it may be better for the others academically. Socially, I'd like to see some research about the effects on either group.
when it's outstanding academics/intellectual curiosity/whatever you want to call it, people purse their lips and get all uncomfortable
I thought our NZ state school system already has programmes where 'gifted' children get extra attention together, alongside their regular classes with everyone else?
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to merc,
Blue is a note
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Not a nomination, but all interested in local wordplay may enjoy Danyl's brilliant channelling of Shelley Bridgeman's literary genius.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Lew Stoddart,
neolib :)
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If all it required to attract someone was to be attracted to them, we'd be having rather different conversations about romance.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Joe Wylie,
the family folding Kodak
a popular vehicle
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to James Butler,
Or "Treasury Forecast". But that's really a phrase of the last 3-5 years I guess.
certainly more useful in retrospect, in any case.
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OnPoint: Spending "Cap" is Fiscal Anorexia, in reply to merc,
Independent schools are publicly funded to quite a large degree
And we're hearing the "why should we pay twice" line trotted out again by the wealthy who want your taxes to help send Jemima and Jeremy to an elite school of their choice.
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OnPoint: Spending "Cap" is Fiscal Anorexia, in reply to HenryB,
the (self-serving) rhetoric
It was as you say presented that way. And not fisked with any force.