Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Speaker: Inequality: Too big to ignore, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Hmmm....
Our wee acre of supposed pastoral bliss is bordered on three sides by a 999 acre/1000 cow dairy farm.
The owner we purchased our acre from....a rockstar of the dairy industry in his time...had to sell, as the wolves came baying for their due. He was a bully...so few tears were shed in the 'hood.
The new owners have had a similar attitude that since they are producing the white gold...they can do whatever they like despite negative impacts on their neighbours.
We will certainly not be shedding croc tears for them...with the prices whey down.
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Speaker: Inequality: Too big to ignore, in reply to Max Rashbrooke,
growth
What does that word really mean?????
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This...http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/63533041/time-to-give-up-homeownership-dream
...is inequality that simply can't be ignored.
Young people, well educated, working HARD.
Told to "grow up and move on.."
By whom?
So, my hard working adult child and their partner, having desperately been trying to save for a deposit on a home (not in Auckland), have just about given up.
So...are spending a little more on non necessities...$$$ that were going into savings.
Now going into the tills of the retailers.
Who probably own rental properties.
And so it goes.
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Perhaps a critical mass of comfort can be socially reached that creates inertia all by itself.
It seems like a complicated question. I’d like a good answer to it.
I'd love to give it a go....but it would take pages...
Suffice to say, one reaches a certain level of finnancial constraint, with no hope (besides death) of any improvement in income....you simply stop spending on anything other than neccessities.
And this becomes normal.
For more folk than perhaps you'd realize.
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"So this report – demolishing a key argument against inequality,"
perhaps that should be "Key" argument, Max?.
".... backing redistribution, and pointing out New Zealand as the country worst affected"
The measured cost of our 'rockstar' economy?
"... is a landmark one, and may represent the moment when inequality really became too big to ignore."
Unfortunately, the moment will pass...
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So many possibilities already posted.
I'll go for....."...a step too far."
as in: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11325069, and
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/241716/key-says-act-event-not-endorsement, and
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/250742/minister-should-resign,-says-fish-and-gameI'd post more similar links, but that would be, well, a step too far.
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Speaker: Why churches should marry…, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,
Yeah, just saw that....
Jesus wept.
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Legal Beagle: Wellington Super City? Not…, in reply to Sacha,
What were they saying about zombie towns?
This is how the decline begins.
Destroy autonomy and identity, undermine local community leaders....lambasting them for their inability to change....because of course...all change is good.
So....the crew that maintained the roads for the local council, who did not get a look in when the new Council was hiring....I suppose they can retrain as baristas and serve coffee to the city slickers when they venture forth to survey the fringes of their expanded domain?
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Perhaps all is not lost at the Herald.....
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/news-cartoons/news/article.cfm?c_id=500814&objectid=11367770
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"That is not the law now. In 2012, the National Government amended this law in a couple of important ways:"
As the National Government is wont to do....and quietly, I'll bet.
On our travels, we get to chat with a lot of locals.
Down in Otaki a few months ago....locals not happy about being forced into the Kapiti Coast Council....a poll had indicated most ratepayers identified more with the council to the north.
Up in the Kaipara district....the part now under the ACC. Local contracing companies now having to sit idle as contractors from South Auckland roll into town to do Council work that was formally the local's bread and butter.
This is democracy?