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[Worried2Death]

You give women too little credit. Women choose to pay for services like childcare by exercising their own free will, voluntarily

Not because someone else has designed them for women

True but most parents have little choice as one income doesn't cover the bills. In that sense Wiz does have a captive market akin to the private prison system, he might as well be a slave trader.

 

[tyrael]

Not sure why y'all giving wiz shit about owning a daycare. It's a business and while it's shitty as a society we have to have daycares, he's not taking advantage of people (unlike a brothel).

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

The thing that's hilarious about you wiz. Owning daycares. One of the most bullshit industries ever invented. Designed to get women into the workforce. Neo liberalism at its finest. Privatised companies receiving kickbacks and incentives from the government.
No better than a private prison.

My wife’s a teacher and that’s been her business. People have choice eg public kindergartens, but given that choice, many still choose private childcare centres.

I’m a sparky by trade that’s got into other stuff (tourism, property development, recruitment, etc)

 

[Worried2Death]

My wife’s a teacher and that’s been her business. People have choice eg public kindergartens, but given that choice, many still choose private childcare centres.

I’m a sparky by trade that’s got into other stuff (tourism, property development, recruitment, etc)

Sorry I called you a slave trader Wiz, was that too far?

 

[John Nick]

Sorry I called you a slave trader Wiz, was that too far?

Yeah sure you are.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Sorry I called you a slave trader Wiz, was that too far?

I’ve likened childcare to farming with the kids the flock that you have to provide care for.

My wife didn’t like the analogy

And the rules around ensuring children can’t escape is similar to a prison to be honest!

 

[BabylonPink]

You give women too little credit. Women choose to pay for services like childcare by exercising their own free will, voluntarily

Not because someone else has designed them for women

I'm sure a large majority would rather have the choice to raise their children without having to work because unfortunately most couples need a duel income just to survive.

 

[miket12]

I'm sure a large majority would rather have the choice to raise their children without having to work because unfortunately most couples need a duel income just to survive.

In the 1990's, NZ banks only considered the primary income when accessing housing loans... then they decided to look at the total household income instead as was happening overseas. Smaller lending institutions followed suit. Soon, any form of borrowing was unaffordable for most without a second income.

In the early 2000's, we had a recession hit and there was a huge number of mortgagee sales as young families had lost the second income when the wife stopped working to have children. Paid maternity leave has helped reduce the number of young families losing their houses but it's still a struggle.

Personally, I'd like us to go back to the primary income assessments.... but house prices mean that will never happen.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

In the 1990's, NZ banks only considered the primary income when accessing housing loans... then they decided to look at the total household income instead as was happening overseas. Smaller lending institutions followed suit. Soon, any form of borrowing was unaffordable for most without a second income.

In the early 2000's, we had a recession hit and there was a huge number of mortgagee sales as young families had lost the second income when the wife stopped working to have children. Paid maternity leave has helped reduce the number of young families losing their houses but it's still a struggle.

Personally, I'd like us to go back to the primary income assessments.... but house prices mean that will never happen.

Paid maternity leave is all part of the neoliberalism trap?

Devious policy making is all feel good while supporting the banking cartel!

 

[miket12]

Paid maternity leave is all part of the neoliberalism trap?

Devious policy making is all feel good while supporting the banking cartel!

 

[tyrael]

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellington/s/Qm5B7T2im1

 

[Noitall]

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellington/s/Qm5B7T2im1

Reading those comments and someone mentioning her child receiving rape threats as well as herself is absolutely shameful

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Example of why we are billions in debt:

Labour bought a motel in Rotorua valued at $4.3 for $8.1m. Spent $3m renovating it. Total spend $11.1m

Find the hot water bore is knackered so demolish the whole complex and are selling it for land value.

You couldn’t make up this absolutely horrific waste of money

…but let’s keep our head in the sand that the $30b of wasted borrowing outside Covid wasn’t irresponsible Labour econic managemt and give them another turn. They have already forecast needing extra taxes to waste!

'Appalling waste': Transitional housing complex to be torn down after $11m spend

In four years, 174 families lived in ex-motel Kāinga Ora paid $11m to buy and renovate.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[tyrael]

I mean Nicki no boats has cost us millions upon millions with the interisland ferries.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Example of why we are billions in debt:

Labour bought a motel in Rotorua valued at $4.3 for $8.1m. Spent $3m renovating it. Total spend $11.1m

Find the hot water bore is knackered so demolish the whole complex and are selling it for land value.

You couldn’t make up this absolutely horrific waste of money

…but let’s keep our head in the sand that the $30b of wasted borrowing outside Covid wasn’t irresponsible Labour econic managemt and give them another turn. They have already forecast needing extra taxes to waste!

'Appalling waste': Transitional housing complex to be torn down after $11m spend

In four years, 174 families lived in ex-motel Kāinga Ora paid $11m to buy and renovate.

www.nzherald.co.nz

The article says Kainga Ora. Not Labour.

 

[j_p]

I see national Is getting into the same American politics of shutting down the media...

 

[MaybeTop8]

I see national Is getting into the same American politics of shutting down the media...

100. There's a concerted campaign under way against TVNZ.

Not to mention the right and far right takeover of NZME.

 

[j_p]

100. There's a concerted campaign under way against TVNZ.

Not to mention the right and far right takeover of NZME.

Yet we're going to be labelled as bias...

 

[tyrael]

The right lambasts Jacinda when she won't go on Hoskings but crickets when Luxon won't go on TVNZ.

Personally I didn't care they don't go on. They aren't the medias puppets. However it's the right leaning media that are fucktards.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

The right lambasts Jacinda when she won't go on Hoskings but crickets when Luxon won't go on TVNZ.

Personally I didn't care they don't go on. They aren't the medias puppets. However it's the right leaning media that are fucktards.

Mate, multiple media articles (both left and right) critical of him.

Honestly he’s hopeless at the media side of things. Chippy’s a pro and will make him look ordinary come election.

Prime Minister Luxon alienating voters by cancelling weekly Breakfast interview, expert says

Political scientist Dr Claire Robinson says she would have advised Luxon against cancelling his weekly Breakfast interview slot.

www.rnz.co.nz

Luxon quits Breakfast slot: smart tactic or ‘running for the hills’?

The PM will no longer do his weekly TVNZ interview. Is he, too, a ‘lightweight’?

thespinoff.co.nz

'Can't pick and choose': Warning after PM shuns programme

Political scientist Dr Claire Robinson says she would have advised Christopher Luxon against cancelling his weekly Breakfast interview slot.

www.odt.co.nz