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21st April 2011, 10:27 | #1 |
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Stop Asset Sales!
Jesus, is there anything - ANYTHING - that Labour can do without fucking up?
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21st April 2011, 10:56 | #2 |
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Hmm, nothing on Dim-Post so I don't know what you're talking about.. Please don't make me go to Kiwiblog or the Standard!
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21st April 2011, 10:56 | #3 |
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Some could go IMO, why does the taxpayer own Orcon for instance?
Korida, its parent lost $18million this year: http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/kordia-...hover-ck-87137 I would find it hard to imagine the Orcon makes enough profit to prop Kordia up - perhaps if we sold it we could use the proceeds to help balance the Kordia loss and get an awesome IPTV infrastructure as a result. |
21st April 2011, 11:00 | #4 |
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I'm referring to the fact that Labour's latest PR campaign seems to involve sticking up signs saying "Stop Asset Sales" next to public roads. Unfortunately the signs they're sticking up next to public roads are designed to look like actual Stop signs, which is both fucking stupid and illegal.
Edit - I see that even The Standard has called the campaign "amateur hour". Ouch. |
21st April 2011, 11:12 | #5 |
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Oh ok... ummm I know! we should sell Labour and get another party.
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21st April 2011, 11:23 | #6 |
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21st April 2011, 11:40 | #7 |
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*golf clap*
I've listened to some of the debates about selling state assets and Key just has too much ammo against Goff. Sweet zombie jesus make it stop |
21st April 2011, 11:41 | #8 |
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Was that what prompted Mallards quip about Whale Oil yesterday? He seems to have lined a median strip with his allocation.
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21st April 2011, 12:50 | #10 |
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LOL. National doesn't have to do anything to get re-elected, they just need Labour to continue with the stupid. Ugh.
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21st April 2011, 13:00 | #11 |
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A poll the other day said 50% of voters don't want goff to step down. I couldn't help but wonder how many of those people were nat supporters.
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21st April 2011, 13:05 | #12 | |
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21st April 2011, 13:06 | #13 | |
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"Wasn't me" ... way to take ownership
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21st April 2011, 13:19 | #14 | |
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Part 3 Advertising Signs. 3.4.2 Electoral Advertising In specific: Quote:
http://www.nzta.govt.nz/consultation...sing-signs.pdf Also check the Electoral Act 1993, it says the same thing. Lets vote for monkeys to write laws which they don't follow! |
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21st April 2011, 13:32 | #15 |
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Hmm... Goff's statement didn't sound much like "We certainly would not want to break any laws, this was an unintentional error and I apologise to drivers everywhere and of course we'll take the signs down." In fact, it sounded more like "You got a problem? Say it to the face of the person in charge of those signs and maybe if you're nice they'll do something about it. DO IT FAGGOT I dare ya!"
C'mon Goff, you're the boss now. Take charge of the situation and close it down now. This shit will be in the press until you act decisively.
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21st April 2011, 16:45 | #16 |
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This situation is pretty infuriating. On the one hand, National have performed abysmally and next term will only be worse if they follow through with asset sales.
On the other hand, WTF Goff, just gtfo, please, for the love of god. You're GIFTING these incompetent economically illiterate fuckwits the election. Mallard, or this guy http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/pr...g-families.asx needs to take over ASAP |
21st April 2011, 16:48 | #17 |
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Mallard as PM, are you serious?
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21st April 2011, 16:53 | #18 | |
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A. There'd be no accusing him of being "PC" B. He's damn good in a debate. C. He's quite well liked by both the social liberals and the unions. D. Whoever took the reigns now would most likely lose anyway, so why not give the guy a punt? Considering more realistic candidates will most likely wait until after the election to roll goff, saving themselves a defeat as leader on their record. Downside is he might not hack the pressure, but it's possible he's learned something since he assaulted Tau. |
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21st April 2011, 16:54 | #19 |
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21st April 2011, 17:09 | #21 |
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Hardly an exaggeration when they've wasted billions of dollars on gifts for their rich mates while cutting social services in a time of recession. Abysmal is EXACTLY the word I would use to describe their performance.
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21st April 2011, 17:13 | #22 | |
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21st April 2011, 17:15 | #23 |
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Well, probably in the low hundred-million range. 35 mill to rich-guy yachties here... probably other stuff there...
(And yep, I voted National)
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21st April 2011, 17:30 | #24 |
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I think you'll find it was Labour that gave that money to rich guy yachties.
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21st April 2011, 17:32 | #25 |
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So the 2 billion dollars in tax cuts to the top 10% of income earners isn't "billions" to you? Or the 1.2 billion dollar bailout of SCF after National renewed their deposit guarantee, all while Key is receiving regular reports on how bad it was doing?
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21st April 2011, 17:40 | #26 | ||
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21st April 2011, 17:45 | #27 |
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God you'r thick Adonis. Found this mention of you on Wiki - thought it suited.
"Women sit by the gate weeping for Tammuz, or they offer incense to Baal on roof-tops and plant pleasant plants. These are the very features of the Adonis cult: a cult confined to women which is celebrated on flat roof-tops on which sherds sown with quickly germinating green salading are placed, Adonis gardens... the climax is loud lamentation for the dead god." And Baal is part of the story I really think you should stick to the gardening.
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National HAVE given billions to people at the top end of the income spectrum, and ARE cutting social services ("nice to haves") to pay for these changes. This isn't really up for debate, it's shows how desperate you are to avoid confronting this reality when you resort to this kind of semantic argument. |
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21st April 2011, 18:31 | #32 | ||
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PS GST free fruit/veges isn't a policy I would support, but it's small fries compared to asset sales, regressive taxation policies, tax bailouts for bad investments, and cutting social services (social costs don't just disappear because you move them off the government books). I'm really sick of hearing that National are good at handling the economy, it's a statement that I've never seen anyone back up with actual empirical evidence. They're still stuck in the neoliberal mindset, despite how much damage that school of economics has caused the world recently. The only time Labour has done a worse job was during the Lange administration, but then, Roger Douglas was setting their economic policy then, it was basically like having ACT in charge for 6 years. Key's only holding back because he knows that the public won't accept another NZ government being hijacked by the corporate elite. Want to know why we're so far behind aus? 25 years of hard right wing governments. Muldoon set us up for bankruptcy us, Douglas used that as an excuse to hold a fire-sale on assets, many of which we really needed to hang onto, then Ruth Richardson came along and put the boot into all the families that were suffering because of the actions of these econmically illiterate wankers. |
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21st April 2011, 19:35 | #39 | |
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If need be I'll become a financial supporter of him if a little extra cash would help him keep hold of the reins. |
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Let nobody be under any illusion otherwise - the greens are an extremist party far left of alliance of old. And of course those with communist hopes don't want asset sales - the state is supposed to own everything isn't it? |
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