Politics 🗳️ NZ Politics
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The Adolescent Abacus thread is more appropriate
Fine, I'm taking my slide rule and I'm leaving
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Paul Simon's " slip sliding away ". HahahaFine, I'm taking my slide rule and I'm leaving
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"Let me be your ruler" -Lorde
Big jump in drug use across the country.
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Infographic from: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/wastewater-results-quarter-3-2024.pdf
Cocaine, methamphetamine use soars in New Zealand
Drug Foundation executive director Sarah Helm said there was likely to be more acute harm and hospitalisations.
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Infographic from: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/wastewater-results-quarter-3-2024.pdf
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Symptomatic of a bad recession isn’t it? Flowing through into stresses.Big jump in drug use across the country.
Cocaine, methamphetamine use soars in New Zealand
Drug Foundation executive director Sarah Helm said there was likely to be more acute harm and hospitalisations.
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Infographic from: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/wastewater-results-quarter-3-2024.pdf
No telling if it’s more people using or those already using, just using more.
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and people leaving NZBig jump in drug use across the country.
Cocaine, methamphetamine use soars in New Zealand
Drug Foundation executive director Sarah Helm said there was likely to be more acute harm and hospitalisations.
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Infographic from: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/wastewater-results-quarter-3-2024.pdf
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More meth on the streets than ever before and cheaper. Cocaine is mostly the high rollers in society so potentially they making more to spend on their habit?
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Be interesting to compare the Cocaine usage to Bitcoins rise and fall!
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NZ should take note, the state of Victoria is basically bankrupt. The bill for those feel good handouts and handy shandies to the unions is now due.
Debt will grow from $150B to $200B in less than 5 years.
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Debt will grow from $150B to $200B in less than 5 years.
‘A bit of tension’: Treasurer quits parliament after 18 years as state bogged down in debt
Tim Pallas has stepped down after delivering his 10th budget, which left Victoria with a forecast net debt of $187.8 billion and gave Labor a hit in the polls.
We should start with axing the idea of interest deductilbility (2.9 billion) and bring back the smokefree generation law (losing out on 17 billion of tax and 46 billion in economic benefits from now untill 2022-2050).NZ should take note, the state of Victoria is basically bankrupt. The bill for those feel good handouts and handy shandies to the unions is now due.
Debt will grow from $150B to $200B in less than 5 years.
‘A bit of tension’: Treasurer quits parliament after 18 years as state bogged down in debt
Tim Pallas has stepped down after delivering his 10th budget, which left Victoria with a forecast net debt of $187.8 billion and gave Labor a hit in the polls.
The minutiary isnt that important, what is important is generating income, not just writing blank cheques. Vic banned fossil fuel / gas, spent billions on vanity public transport projects that were useless, spent millions on virtue signalling on moral issues etc.
Just administer the states core functions on budget.
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1 - operate within a govt surplus (eg don’t overspend, live within your means)
2 - tax so that you don’t impact economic growth (live within your means).
Quite simple really yet so difficult to get right.
Because “social engineering” has leapt to the top of the list.
Whether it be trying to force people to ride bikes, or force people to stop using gas, or wading into other various cultural, social and political matters, it’s now about engineering the society into what is desired at the time.
Simple but we have just seen more large rates rises by several councils and it looks like the economy is heading back to recession figures.
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Putting aside technical definitions, we’ve been in a recession all year, the rate of decline is beginning to very slowly improve however for a few industries (increasingly cycling weaker periods). Businesses are hopefully we might see some minor positive growth from around April next year. Finger crossed!
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There’s a place for that but it has to be within the context of affordability, growing the economy and living within our means.
NZ arguably had the biggest social engineering with minimum wages increases, climate change regulations, banning exploration, anti farming regulations, debt based on non productive areas, etc, etc and surprise - we’ve got the longest, deepest recession in the world as we simply made ourselves uneconomic.
The unions and politicians calling for minimum wages increasing above inflation now should be made a laughing stock for their contribution to the mess we are in.
