Labour / NZ First Government

[iceman]

I watched one news tonight and see the government has given Whale Watch Kailkoura $1.5 million. Somewhat intrigued I searched the Employer wage subsidy database which disclosed a transfer of $456000. I also searched the charities register which disclosed Whale Watch Kaikoura is a Registered Charity.Which presumably means they have no tax on their profits and only tax liability of course would be GST.
Just something to ponder I guess

That is an incredible bit of info, that Whale Watch Kaikoura is a registered charity, on top of having monopolistic access to that area. How ridculous is that !

[Balance]

A torrent of weasel words from Minister Little in his interview with Mike Hosking this morning. Sounded like scrambling to justify something or other. His problem is that he, the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister made such a huge deal of 'bringing the men home'. Not happening, but cheap at the (taxpayer funded) price. Apparently.

From Pike River thread.

Anything with this incompetent lot to get votes - with the bill presented to taxpayers.

[Joshuatree]

So the voters are incompetent too ehh mr wannabe trumpette. Try smelling something else besides money it may make you a more decent human being. Look up Empathy, Justice,Accountability, Humanity, discover the many things worth more then your pile of filthy lucre, get a life, contribute something of decency to our world.

[Balance]

So the voters are incompetent too ehh mr wannabe trumpette. Try smelling something else besides money it may make you a more decent human being. Look up Empathy, Justice,Accountability, Humanity, discover the many things worth more then your pile of filthy lucre, get a life, contribute something of decency to our world.

Look up hypocrisy, cynical & blatant politicking.

This is really really really rich coming from you who think that Roy Green's suicide is not to be discussed but

it's okay for Comrade Cindy & Andrew Little & Winston Peters to prey on the deaths of 29 miners to get votes.

[Sgt Pepper]

From todays Herald " Maori Partyco-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer calls for NZ colonial statues to be removed"

On my way to work I drive past the Queens Gardens in Dunedin where there is a statue of Queen Victoria. On numerous times this has been vandalized, and required expensive repairs last year. No doubt the temptation will again be too great and it will be vandalised again, no one will be apprehended(they never are) and ratepayers will have , once again, to pick up the tab.
Thats it, I'm done, take it down. I have obviously woken up grumpy today, gone to bed a liberal and woken up conservative.
As always others opinions are welcome

[Joshuatree]

Look up hypocrisy, cynical & blatant politicking.

This is really really really rich coming from you who think that Roy Green's suicide is not to be discussed but

it's okay for Comrade Cindy & Andrew Little & Winston Peters to prey on the deaths of 29 miners to get votes.

The deaths are all on your callous entity.Hopefully you are just a toon, not real at all.

[Balance]

The deaths are all on your callous entity.Hopefully you are just a toon, not real at all.

Rich, as I wrote, coming from you - supporting the despicable, disgusting and repugnant hypocrisy of using the families & the 29 dead miners to get votes.

Another broken promise -

Recklessly made & cynically to get votes,

Commitment made with zero real comprehension of what’s involved,

Cynically raised the hopes of the families of the dead miners,

Throwing taxpayers’ money with zero consideration of outcome.

Kiwibuild all over again, with the dastardly difference being the manipulative use of dead men and $50m down the black hole.

[Balance]

MOH & Comrade Cindy love the limelight but not the follow up hard work :

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/one-news-at-6pm

Freaking heck - watch the first 5 starting minutes of TV1 tonight and better brace for a second wave.

Returning NZers from overseas at the Crowne Plaza in Auckland (where they are staying out their 14 days quarantine) are allowed to go out of the hotel for unsupervised walks, no social distancing and mingle freely amongst themselves! Members of the public are passing them in the streets (even walking through them) totally unaware and those quarantined are paying zero heed to keeping clear of others!

There is something seriously screwed with the incompetents at MOH and the government.

[Balance]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12338991

paywall article

Shameful, disgraceful & repugnant - the con played on the families of the dead miners by Andrew Little, Comrade Cindy & Winston Peters.

Except : "The Labour Party should be ashamed of themselves. They took a tragedy, saw a political gap, and leapt on it. The previous National government did what any logical, sensible, and adult government would have done, all they could. Short of making up stories and promising false hope like the current lot have."

[JBmurc]

UNEXPLODED HAND GRENADE
According to data tracked by reader Stephen Hulme (Audaxes), the NZ Government now has more than $100 bln in debt outstanding and is now obligated to pay more than $10 mln in interest every day. This could get toxic is bond yields rise, and quickly. In the recent 2020/21 Government budget, they expect interest to cost the taxpayer $3.5 bln in the next financial year. That all assumes interest rates remain low.