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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Winston's just about gone government...

English: This image was taken at the Europa Lecture 2008, University of Aukland, and is owned by the European Union Centres Network. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Winston Peters · 10,149 like this

With parliament rising yesterday, it seems like a good time to look back on the non-achievements of the Government this year.

• The dream of owning your own home – just about gone
• High performing state assets like power stations – just about gone
• Public broadcasting – just about gone
• Job opportunities for young – just about gone
• Our manufacturing industry – just about gone.
• Our best dairying farmland – just about gone.
• The foreshore and seabed – just about gone
• The member for Epsom – just about gone – to court first
• The leaker for Ohariu – he’s just about gone
• The member for Warner brothers, Sky City, Rio Tinto – just about gone – following his memory which was gone a long time ago.
• Our friends in the Maori Party – just about gone

In fact this is the most “just about gone” government in history.

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Sunday, December 8, 2013

Why are you turning red, Prime Minister?

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/finalists-nz-quote-year-revealed-5767379

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

The twit is after the tweeter, but perhaps to no avail...

English: Tweeting bird, derived from the initial 't' of Twitter Deutsch: Twitschervogel, entwickelt aus dem Anfangs-'t' von Twitter (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Peter Petterson

Tweeting is apparently not specifically illegal under Electoral Law. The twit involved will have to use something different than tweeting...

Mathew Hootton not a hoot in for Act...

ACT New Zealand (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So Mathew Hooton is a possibility for the Act Party leadership. Really? A great number of people out there consider him politically naive and foolish. He's as dry as cinder and lacks any social empathy.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Beneficiary's trek to stop her welfare benefit being cut off...

Trek to stop benefit cut-off

stuff.co.nz

Woman with no transport walked the equivalent of a marathon to make a WINZ appointment.

Grant Brookes

Lazy beneficiaries?

"With no car and no public transport available she completed the 25-kilometre return journey on foot.
"If you didn't turn up they cut your benefit off," she said...
After finishing her hour-long appointment she had to hurry home to her four children before school finished...
Her case manager was not interested in finding a solution, she said

Monday, December 2, 2013

A Bright Future for whom in NZ? The right-wing witch doctors of Market Economics..

Cover of Bright Future

Peter Petterson

A rejuvenated Labour Party is giving new hope for the Lower Middle Class, the Working Class and the new Under Class. Labour's result in the Christchurch East by-election was a huge fillip. National can now be seen as it has been since the advent of John Key - the biblical building of a house on sand - no foundation economically, financially or socially. A Bright Future for whom? For the right-wing witch doctors of Market Economics...