Posts by Gareth Ward
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I particularly like this from McCann:
Deregulation + institutional reform → new possibilities for competition and profits → entrepreneurship → innovation → profitability → investment → economic growthSee all those other points between deregulation and economic growth? Those are the parts we're failing at, the BRT just doesn't want to admit it because it's businesses fault, not "damn gummint's" fault.
Of course Brash's formula is Deregulation → Magic Box of Magicness → economic growth
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My son has just come back from the Special Olympics national games in Palmerston North with several medals for swimming.
Cool.
I fear Mr Talslov has faked an Organisation.
Heh.
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A user interface might be described as "retarded" -- but never, so far as I can recall, an actual person.
I'm normally a big proponent of focussing on intent - I hate when people get worked up by a comment when clearly the intent they are inferring wasn't there.
But the use of "that's soooo gay" tends to raise my hackles - 9 times out 10 the intent is benign, but the use of the term to describe something bad/substandard/undesirable is coming from a pretty poor and recent history. I kinda put retarded in the same bucket. -
Oh I certainly agree we could attempt to achieve a similar level of public spending, the fact remains that would need to be at higher-percentages of taxation than nations that are producing greater wealth.
I'm not the guy who says wealth is everything, we have to sacrifice every 3rd child of a Decile 1 school to achieve it. But at least let's recognise that either public or private spending is going to need to be at a lower level than comparative nations. Rather than this dream that we can continue to have top-notch public spending at a 30% tax rate.And hell yes we waste spending on historical moral crusades.
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Absurdities abound, the first of which was the appointment of people like Dr Brash and Mr Caygill who, along with their soulmate, Act Party seat-warmer Roger Douglas, are not just yesterday's men but last century's men.
Ya know who said that? Garth George.
Given it's Garth George calling you "last century's men" that means 18th Century. -
You really asked for this
I want to say I didn't, but I suspect that at some level, a level deep down in places I don't talk about at parties, I did....
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Also, according to Wiki:
The motto also appears on the entry gates to pop star Michael Jackson's Neverland estate, emblazoned on his personal crest beneath a royal lion and a gemstone-collared unicorn.Gemstone-collared unicorn is now MY motto...
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Not to start a circlejerk but there are some seriously clever and witty words in here already and we're only 3 pages in. I guess that's the upside of hanging around with the filthy liberal elite.
I was going to say something about Pun-lic Address System but then figured Craig would make that something dirty =)
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Because if the little old lady didn't get married or have children, she's *worth less*. We all know this! (Meh.)
I'll let the authors talk to their reasons for inclusion themselves, but I think this is just the attempt to use extremes to make the point. The "imagery" of someone late in life without family taking a significant portion of the health budget over the young toddler of Porirua (was it?) not getting vaccinated is the attempt to show the extremes of the social outcomes.
I think you would be hard pressed to actually make numbers of direct family members an actual driver of health spend, and I also don't believe they are trying to do so.
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Copenhatin - a visceral hatred of the socialist lesbian UN taxation program justified by the lie of global warming (see also Wishating)
"Super" and Celebrity Justice must get a running somewhere too...