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[juju]

You’re suffering from confirmation bias. You’re incapable of being objective & it’s pointless discussing anything with you any further.

That's a bit rich given how all economic measures have deteriorated.
Sorry I find it difficult to accept because you have a gut feeling things despite it being just a bit dubious despite the now blatantly obvious it's years away.

(You're not quite as delulu as @Inruin I'll give you that)

Tell me then - how has the average quality of life or cost of living improved for the average joe under the new government?

 

[juju]

The bandaid had to be ripped off at some point.

That sounds like a comment someone would phone into John Banks radio pacific show in the 90s.

 

[juju]

the National Party slogan on their website is
"One Year of getting the country back on track"

Yet the headline is literally

Massive GDP fall: NZ in deep recession - ‘worst since 1991′​

Newsflash - we're well off track and you apologists look silly.

 

[juju]

Don't worry chaps - the economy is absolutely positively tanking...

But the national party donors are killing it.


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/auckland/comments/1hgonlb/cronyism_at_its_finest/

 

[Worried2Death]

Yes, a few unwilling to acknowledge it but it reinforces the fact that we were deep in the poo and getting deeper.

Wasn't that bad, we were still out-performing Estonia.

 

[Inruin]

That sounds like a comment someone would phone into John Banks radio pacific show in the 90s.

What key metric wasn't going backwards under the last government despite record spending AND borrowing? I'll wait.....

But I'm expecting you to just resort to calling people names.

I think @Mr. Brownstone has hit the nail on the head

 

[MrFrankWhite]

It’s a rebuild job. Some National actions that will help over the next few years:

- The high tax take has reduced investment, productivity and R&D the last 5 years. Being address.
- high costs (wages, compliance) draining profitability, competitiveness and resilience of businesses. Being addressed
- there were a raft of policies effectively reducing output of productive industries (dairy, forestry, resources, etc). Being addressed
- housing choked by RMA, compliance. Being addressed
- skilled labour to grow PRODUCTIVE businesses being pooled in govt departments. Being addressed
- school system was failing with less than 50% attendance and youth unsuitable for work - being addressed.
- govt borrowing huge to unsustainably paper over the cracks and building a foundation on sand. Spending being bought under control.

Feel sorry for the govt inheriting this mess which has been exposed by the deepest recession in 30 years delivered by Labour policies.

While I've been shitting on lefties lately, I have no love for Luxon, the potato headed moron, or his gaggle of nonces. Id need to see a few more quarters of data

 

[Warriorsfan92]

Adrian Orr needs to be made responsible for his role in this. Too long to increase rates, then rates were too high then rates too high for too long. He should be one of the unemployment statistics he’s manufacturing.

 

[dean]

Adrian Orr needs to be made responsible for his role in this. Too long to increase rates, then rates were too high then rates too high for too long. He should be one of the unemployment statistics he’s manufacturing.

And Robertson who slinked back to Dunedin and his $600k plus stipend after fucking us over.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Adrian Orr needs to be made responsible for his role in this. Too long to increase rates, then rates were too high then rates too high for too long. He should be one of the unemployment statistics he’s manufacturing.

He's one factor. This incredibly awful, destructive coalition of the rich, for the rich, by the rich are the other factor.

 

[MaybeTop8]

And Robertson who slinked back to Dunedin and his $600k plus stipend after fucking us over.

deflect, deflect, deflect. Your mob are appalling, they've fucked our country completely. You guys have backed the neolibs, you should own it proudly

 

[MaybeTop8]

The rock star economy was when the housing crisis blew up and the ladder got pulled up on virtually a whole generation though. What happened to increased GDP improving outcomes for everyone, wealth disparity and poverty increased and Key just dismissed it. Sounds like Chloe's got a point about the oligopoly. God she's hot

Where's @MaybeTop8, how's Atlas Network going bro, pretty good by the sound of it

What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | George Monbiot

The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

This is the Atlas playbook:


This coalition are delivering on all of those aspects. Act in particular

 

[MaybeTop8]

No. That is a clown saying something when not true.
Boot camp for me would be a 3 year survivalist camp where if you didn't contribute you starved to death or died of hyperthermia.

What a fantastic idea Dean. We could pack off the billionaires, landlords, tax dodgers, climate valndals, right and far right racist bigots and oligarchs and give them a carrot of an early release if they show some humanity!! Or pay their fair share in capital gains taxes.

Excellent!

 

[MaybeTop8]

Seymour's ministry of regulation - paying itself exorbitant salaries, with a mandate to

The Overshadowed Bill Poised to Rewrite New Zealand’s Legal System

While Attention is Fixed on the Treaty Principles Bill, Another Bill Threatens Sweeping Change

melanienelson.substack.com

OF THE RICH, BY THE RICH, FOR THE RICH

 

[MaybeTop8]

The bandaid had to be ripped off at some point.

The bandaid of the cosy right wing echo chamber in these very pages? Quite right Inruin!

 

[MrFrankWhite]

What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | George Monbiot

The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

This is the Atlas playbook:
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This coalition are delivering on all of those aspects. Act in particular

If Milei is so bad, why do Argentinians love him? Maybe all the crying is come from self interested lefties that have zero employable skills outside of being a leech?

 

[MaybeTop8]

And the ferries - what a fucking disaster. Economically literate? This government is the most destructive, abhorrent, cruel, regressive government we've had and that's saying something.

Wiz is more economically literate than this coalition.

Of the rich, by the rich, for the rich, of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy, of the few, by the few, for the few, of the corrupt, by the corrupt, for the corrupt.

Neoliberalism at it's finest all around.

Luxon & Willis Double Down on Ferries Debacle

And Government Sneakily Shifts the Estimates from $3b to $4bn

mountaintui.substack.com

 

[MrFrankWhite]

What a fantastic idea Dean. We could pack off the billionaires, landlords, tax dodgers, climate valndals, right and far right racist bigots and oligarchs and give them a carrot of an early release if they show some humanity!!

Excellent!

Who would grow the carrot? Lefties only discernible skills are bludging and complaining.

PS Miss you Top

 

[MaybeTop8]

If Milei is so bad, why do Argentinians love him? Maybe all the crying is come from self interested lefties that have zero employableView attachment 10575 skills outside of being a leech?

Carry on the right wing bullshit Frank, the facts are out there, step outside your echo chamber.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Who would grow the carrot? Lefties only discernible skills are bludging and complaining.

PS Miss you Top

Ha! I kinda needed this, but I'm gonna regret it. Back in my hole.