Posts by Farmer Green
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Jack Harrison,
Yep. Farmer Green, going to make you rich. Make policy. Share it.
You'll have to do better than that to motivate me. My partner and I have jointly put in a month's work between us , every week , for the last 35 years. So 80 hours each, every week. You don't do that for money … at least I wouldn't .
We' might be pretty useless if we weren't well -off by now .. or we might have had some really bad luck.You probably know that there is scarcely a farm in the land that doesn't need to double , even triple, its labour force if the land is to be properly cared for, and to become its most productive in the widest sense.
But the current agricultural paradigm is not working ; it doesn't make enough money , and so extractive practices proliferate. That's not real farming in my book , but it come down to a lack of profitability.
That's the problem I set out to solve, and the answers were all tried and tested over hundreds of years. It wasn't an easy wicket , but I thought I could do it.If it remains that hard , then very few are going to do it.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
what could possibly go wrong?
You forgot the sarc tag :-)
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Jack what we want to do is build capital . . . of all sorts , so that we have the resilience to withstand the shocks that a small country like ours will always be subjected to on the ocean where the big boys crash in to each other and make a lot of waves.
Capital - social , environmental, and economic. It must be built. Because we want a peaceful , inclusive nation.We all know this ; some of us can and do do it. But there aren't many of us at present.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Jack Harrison,
How do we use our primary goods sector efficiently, profits, jobs, new exports.?
C'mon Jack , we've just had how many successive think -tanks of industry leaders flown of to . . . Stanford was it . .. and they have all come back with the same answer. Added -value.
That means more people -input . . . . jobs , training, education, playing to our strengths , using our friggin' brains.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Chris Waugh,
All good there Chris, but you didn't mention competitive advantage. I reckon that we may still have one or two of those.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to mark taslov,
Jeez Mark, there's only so much one guy can do :-)
" where’s their land to work? Where’s their education? What are people actually going to do? All those beggars in Wellington, how are they going to be brought back into New Zealand?"
You seriously want me to have a go at that lot now?
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Because they don’t want him in the opposition.
And because he would make fewer speeches.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Jack Harrison,
You are a Labour voter Farmer Green, we’re going to change you and make you rich.
Good one Jack :-) But don't worry about making me rich ; I don't go to town much. And I love recycling things ; it gets to be a bit of a bone of contention at times.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Jack Harrison,
What do we do with milk?
Currently we burn vast amounts of coal to co-generate steam and electricity so that we can take all the water out of a large proportion of the milk ,thus turning it into a low -value commodity, which we then try to sell to poorer countries where clean fresh water is in increasingly short supply.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Keir Leslie,
But, ok, Deborah’s job is basically to talk to Labour and likely Labour voters in her seat,
That's true. Labour's policies were in no way attractive to me, but I obviously wasn't alone in that. And national's policies leave plenty to be desired.
But there is nothing wrong with giving your electorate vote to someone to whom you can relate.
If you never meet the candidate then you may be more likely to vote along party lines for both of your votes.