Posts by Steve Barnes
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the psychic equivalent of boring holes in the lifeboats...
Yes Ian. We demand interesting holes.
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Who buys Investigate?
Ok, I admit it, I bought the first edition. The story about Paul White, the floppy disks and the Wine Box affair was intriguing. However, a few phone calls to "contacts" soon revealed a much bigger situation that Wishart totally missed, stuff that I will never reveal, totally out of my league as a local column writer at the time and truly scary. As you may have guessed, I never bothered with his sensationalist little rag again.
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Well, at least John Key is trying to do something about the unemployment figures
"We've got one of the lowest levels of unemployment. Now, we're working to combat that."
Yes, we won't be beaten by those damned foreigners.
But now you've lost your job you will have the opportunity to buy your own state house Does anyone else hear the thundering hooves of market rents approaching?
Meanwhile Family Fist (sic) believes Forcing your kid to play rugby is good parenting.
Sheesh, and its only Wednesday. -
Could be a winner. Wire up the containers with webcams and stick it on pay per view.
Hmmm. Two men enter, one man leaves. Sounds familiar?
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So the troublesome youth of today - send them around Cape Horn and straight ahead around the Southern Ocean, by the time they're back in NZ the miracle of correction has happened?
Hell yes, it makes more sense than sticking them in shipping containers
Hah, with Crusher Colins on board you can do both. Stick 'em in a container and send 'em round the world. When it comes back, hose it out, put in a brand new prisoner and ship it off again. Cheap as Chips.
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So how can they save so much money? They can't. The $643,000 vs $380,000 figures are rigged.
Thank you Keith. This was what I was writing about yesterday, although in a roundabout way.
As soon as you hear this govt. claiming to save money you have to ask "who ends up with the "saved" money" you can bet on the fact that it won't be anything to the advantage of those in need.I did see the moon walking bear but yesterday I was looking for the sly dog in the room. Thanks again for pointing it out.
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The $380,000 cost of the container option is in comparison to the $643,000 cost of the Spring Hill complex units, a per bed cost.
The cost of monitoring these units does not seem to be included. That leaves $263,000 as the saving between options. Ok, I can understand that the cost of the building containing that "Bed" being higher than the cost of a concrete slab and a container but what I can not see is how anyone could arrive at these figures without lapsing into some kind of fantasy. It is a fuck of a lot of money and as its "our" money, I think we should be told how the hell they arrive at these figures. -
This would be a more impressive initiative if it came at the tail end of some serious analysis
Come now Don. This Government was voted in on a promise of being "Better" and having "Ideas" and a man who was "Ambitious" for New Zealand, not finding solutions to actual problems.
Mr. Key has fulfilled his ambition, he "Owns" New Zealand and his cohorts are full of "Ideas" and as for "Better", better get me a bucket. -
In other totally unrelated news, another Beaglehole moment,
Every chronic disease death postponed means, on average, an extra 10-15 years of life - with consequent economic advantages to the country.
One would presume the "extra" 10-15 years would be at the end of ones life, you know, when your getting your pension.
Another stunning example of playing fast and loose with costs an' shit. -
Sorry, I meant "Consultation" nudge nudge
(formally known as Public/ Private Partnership or "backhanders" to mates)