The 2006 Budget

[Postie]

does it really cost $19M a year to tell people to eat salad

* The Government will spend $76 million over the next four years on a campaign for healthy eating to stem obesity.



well done Labour, money well spent. Thank fuck they didn't put that towards somthing trivial like the hospitals and medical staff.........

[HDTboy]

What about the road spending?
I hope their budgeting for that includes sweeping up afterwards

[Postie]

What about the road spending?
Spending on land transport - mainly new roads - will rise by almost half, from around 0.9 per cent to around 1.3 per cent of the national income, in the next three years.

[WickedOne]

Well, considering Half the adult populations of NZ and a Third of NZ children are obese it can't be a bad thing!!!

[Postie]

Well, considering Half the adult populations of NZ and a Third of NZ children are obese it can't be a bad thing!!!
put more tax on McDonald's and KFC, let the fatties pay for there own obesity adverts

[Squeak the Rat]

Message to parents: It IS OK TO LET YOUR KIDS WALK TO SCHOOL.

There are no more abductions of kids today than there was when I was at school. 99.9999% chance they will be SAFE! You walked to school and turned out ok! Get over it, you are teaching your kids to take the car wherever they go, they are not getting daily forced exercise and they are getting FAT. :mad: :wacko:

And you'll help solve our road congestion problems! <mutter mutter mutter>

Oh, and fat people just need reminding that the feed hole up top is bigger than the out hole down bottom. :rofl:

[mstriumph]

XCELLENT idea, Postie ............. quick, run for office so we'll have someone intelligent to vote for :Punk:

[placidfemme]

they're not fat... they are big boned (like a dinosour perhaps)

I agree with the "tax the fast food joints". Arn't they already doing that in France or somewhere European?

I'm a skinny little shit and don't like the idea of my tax money going towards helping people diet...

[ManDownUnder]

Putting money into helping people eat right is a good thing - it's got to be cheaper on society than pouring money into liposuction or similar when they start tipping the scales at 200kgs.

That being said - a fat tax???

GO FOR IT!

[The_Dover]

Get fucked.

Wendy's is expensive enough.

[Postie]

i have anaylised this and have de-coded its hidden message

* The Government will spend $76 million over the next four years on a campaign for healthy eating to stem obesity.

actually means

* Have you seen the price of gas? My Merc is costing $112 to fill and I'm using 2 tanks a week, the only way to get good mpg is to sit at 150 and the traffic is almost stopped. How are we going to afford expensive strippers and the newest merc if we have to pay $1.70 odd of gas. We need a pay raise but we can't be too obvious, so we are going to take pitty on the patty munchers an say we want to help them, stash $76 and hey presto, pay raises for the next 4 years. Hows that sound???

"Agreed"

Sweet,.

* The Government will spend $76 million over the next four years on a campaign for healthy eating to stem obesity.

[Postie]

Get fucked.

Wendy's is expensive enough.
not if you work there

[The_Dover]

I wonder how much of that money will go to Parekura Horomia and Gerry Brownlee??

[bobsmith]

Well, considering Half the adult populations of NZ and a Third of NZ children are obese it can't be a bad thing!!!

Hell, if someone wants to be obese, I say let them be. I don't know why everyone is obsessed with protecting people from themselves.

Same with seat belts, I personally think once someone is 18 or over they can choose to wear seat belts. I personally would wear them at all times, and make sure that anyone that I care about would too, but why the hell should be INFORCE a law to protect people from themselves?

I agree with promoting healthy eating at school, not having fast food restaurants near schools etc but once they grew up, they can do whatever they like and take the consequences.

People just don't need to be rapped up in a big bubble wrap once they reach an age where they can be responsible for their own actions.

[bobsmith]

not if you work there

I used to work at Wendy's Constallation drive... it was still too expensive...

Hell, I'm fucking addicted to it now, everytime I go up to auckland, I stuff my face in it.....

is there something wrong with me????

(it was soo good when I left, I lost 5kgs and also couple of my friends left shortly thereafter, then they were stuck with stupid I*#^ who didn't speak english!)

[Lou Girardin]

That will make me feel much better when I can't get a hip replacement.
That they're telling a bunch of fat bastards to eat lettuce, with my money.
Roll on 2008.

[Postie]

this is from the NZ Herald today

2.45pm Thursday May 18, 2006
By Simon Collins
Key points from today's Budget

True to its word, the Labour Government has poured money into roading and the elderly rather than cut taxes in its seventh Budget today.

Spending on land transport - mainly new roads - will rise by almost half, from around 0.9 per cent to around 1.3 per cent of the national income, in the next three years.

Residential care and home-based support for the elderly will get $126 million extra over the next four years.

Other main points of the Budget are:

* The budget surplus, after allowing for accounting changes, will shrink from $7 billion in 2005-06 to $5.8 billion in the coming year, bottoming at $3.6 billion in 2008-09. That's a drop from 4.5 per cent of the national income to 3.6 per cent and 2 per cent.

* Tax rates are unchanged.

* Economic growth is forecast to slow to 1.5 per cent both this year and next year, before recovering to 3.7 per cent in 2007-08.

* Jobs will shrink by 0.2 per cent in the coming year and unemployment will rise to 4.7 per cent.

* Money will be poured into areas aimed at "transforming" the economy from commodities to high-value products, with big boosts for science, export marketing and the Venture Investment Fund, as well as roading.

* Modern apprentice numbers will increase to 14,000 by the end of 2008.

* The Budget implements Labour's $1 billion election promise to scrap interest on student loans, and raises the parental income threshold for the full student allowance from $35,000 a year to $39,270.

* The Government will spend $76 million over the next four years on a campaign for healthy eating to stem obesity.

* Promised "school-ready" health checks for four-year-olds, improved school dental services and newborn hearing tests are implemented.

* A 10-year buildup in defence spending announced last year will continue with a $73 million increase this year.

[The_Dover]

Oh my god, my job is going to shrink?? Will I still fit in it?

[Postie]

Oh my god, my job is going to shrink?? Will I still fit in it?
just eat less Wendy's you tubby bitch, then you'll fit right in

[Swoop]

Solve 2 problems with 1 go.

Get all the fat cunts onto a treadmill that is hooked up to the national electricity grid.
Free electricity AND skinny people!!!
When the country is healthy again, we can put the lazy bastards in prison in their place...

[MattRSK]

Message to parents: It IS OK TO LET YOUR KIDS WALK TO SCHOOL.

There are no more abductions of kids today than there was when I was at school. 99.9999% chance they will be SAFE! You walked to school and turned out ok! Get over it, you are teaching your kids to take the car wherever they go, they are not getting daily forced exercise and they are getting FAT. :mad: :wacko:

And you'll help solve our road congestion problems! <mutter mutter mutter>

Oh, and fat people just need reminding that the feed hole up top is bigger than the out hole down bottom. :rofl:

Well said, respect given.

[TwoSeven]

does it really cost $19M a year to tell people to eat salad

* The Government will spend $76 million over the next four years on a campaign for healthy eating to stem obesity.

well done Labour, money well spent. Thank fuck they didn't put that towards somthing trivial like the hospitals and medical staff.........

Ask yourself this, is it better to spend $5 to buy a new coffee cup, or spend $1 preventing it from breaking in the first place.

[cowpoos]

Get fucked.

Wendy's is expensive enough.
the asians have nice shoes there....hmmm

[Highlander]

Pouring money in to fight obesity. They did that for "Aunty Donna" they just didn't realise it til later.

[Coyote]

Ask yourself this, is it better to spend $5 to buy a new coffee cup, or spend $1 preventing it from breaking in the first place.
It's better to invest the dollar in Telecom, and if anything happens to the cup, blame it on someone and get the tax payers to recoup losses

[R6_kid]

Message to parents: It IS OK TO LET YOUR KIDS WALK TO SCHOOL.

There are no more abductions of kids today than there was when I was at school. 99.9999% chance they will be SAFE! You walked to school and turned out ok! Get over it, you are teaching your kids to take the car wherever they go, they are not getting daily forced exercise and they are getting FAT. :mad: :wacko:


you're telling me. The local school (across the road from my house), about 90% of children a driven to school by soccer mums. And 99% of the children live within 2km of the school.

I used to walk 4km to school, there was a bus originally, but when i was old enough to not complain i was told to walk - didnt take that long to get home if there was a good movie on sky in the afternoon.

[Finn]

Well this is what happens when academic lefties full of ideoligy get in power. I hope you lot are happy now. Hands up all you inbred peasants who voted for labour... Go on... show your faces.

[Ixion]

Actually, peasants (in bred or otherwise) would be both unlikely, and ill advised, to vote Labour. Either now or historically.

[Finn]

Actually, peasants (in bred or otherwise) would be both unlikely, and ill advised, to vote Labour. Either now or historically.

I haven't heard from you Ixion and was beginning to worry about you, hence I knew this post would find you. Glad you're okay.

Let me translate for you...

Inbred - We are a small island full of very strange, knuckle dragging, uneducated, rather odd looking people.

Peasants - Unemployed Kiwi's that don't have a single thought of their own who meaninglessly wander the country in search of handouts.

[Ixion]

I haven't heard from you Ixion and was beginning to worry about you, hence I knew this post would find you. Glad you're okay.

Let me translate for you...

Inbred - We are a small island full of very strange, knuckle dragging, uneducated, rather odd looking people.

Peasants - Unemployed Kiwi's that don't have a single thought of their own who meaninglessly wander the country in search of handouts.

Translation not needed. Communists know about peasants.



The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.

peasant


A farmer or agricultural worker of low status. The word is applied chiefly to agricultural workers in Asia, Europe, and South America, who generally adhere to traditional agricultural practices and have little social mobility or freedom. 1



Being , as it were, proto-capitalists, only interested in increasing the value of their farms and selling the produce thereof at higher prices (which is why they are unlikely to vote labour) , it is necessary, for the good of the revolution, to collectivise them.

Historically the peasantry evolved into the yeomanry, and are antipathetically opposed to the bourgoisie (that's you, of course).

[Pixie]

Putting money into helping people eat right is a good thing - it's got to be cheaper on society than pouring money into liposuction or similar when they start tipping the scales at 200kgs.

That being said - a fat tax???

GO FOR IT!
Fuck 'em
Take away they're rights to public health facilities,so they die quick.
I'm sick of paying tax to alleviate the effects of losers' lack of self control

[Timetogo]

they used to and still do make it harder to get certain types of medical procedure if you smoke, can't see why they can't do the same thing for the obese
They've advertised for years to encourage people to stop smoking, how effective has that been, making it hard to smoke in public and price increase have probably made the biggest difference ......

[Pixie]

they used to and still do make it harder to get certain types of medical procedure if you smoke, can't see why they can't do the same thing for the obese
They've advertised for years to encourage people to stop smoking, how effective has that been, making it hard to smoke in public and price increase have probably made the biggest difference ......
Actually they do.
Fr'instance,surgeons don't like burrowing through 8 inches of fat.

[Badcat]

Well this is what happens when academic lefties full of ideoligy get in power. I hope you lot are happy now. Hands up all you inbred peasants who voted for labour... Go on... show your faces.

i did.
don brash is a fool, and i don't want him in power.

[Finn]

i did.
don brash is a fool, and i don't want him in power.

What's Brash got to do with it? You're not a badcat, more of a naughty pussy.

[Badcat]

What's Brash got to do with it? You're not a badcat, more of a naughty pussy.
don brash is living proof that the entity that designed our race has a perverse sense of humour. he's pantomime's widow swanky, not a viable leader.
i voted labour so he wouldn't be in charge of my country.
meet me before you pass judgement.

[Finn]

don brash is living proof that the entity that designed our race has a perverse sense of humour. he's pantomime's widow swanky, not a viable leader.
i voted labour so he wouldn't be in charge of my country.
meet me before you pass judgement.

You are the sum total of a sheltered kiwi and don't have a single thought of your own. It is not your country, it is ours. I don't need to meet you to pass judgment - actions speak volumes. You have already failed in life, hence your preference for the safety net of socialism. You're full of ideology, indoctrinated from your upbringing and poor education. You are a non achiever and envious of people that succeed. You have given up all hope of achieving anything great in life and settle for mediocrity. You are not capable of making decisions for yourself and want to be guided in life. You lack responsibility and accountability. You really don't care about this country at all. You are selfish and should be kept away from young boys and small animals.

In short, we have nothing in common. You could say that we share a common interest in biking however I am in it for the passion. You ride a bike because you can't afford a car. The reasons are explained above.

You are the reason I don't pay tax.

[Ixion]

Uh, so you admire Mr Brash, then, I take it?

[Badcat]

You are the sum total of a sheltered kiwi and don't have a single thought of your own. It is not your country, it is ours. I don't need to meet you to pass judgment - actions speak volumes. You have already failed in life, hence your preference for the safety net of socialism. You're full of ideology, indoctrinated from your upbringing and poor education. You are a non achiever and envious of people that succeed. You have given up all hope of achieving anything great in life and settle for mediocrity. You are not capable of making decisions for yourself and want to be guided in life. You lack responsibility and accountability. You really don't care about this country at all. You are selfish and should be kept away from young boys and small animals.

In short, we have nothing in common. You could say that we share a common interest in biking however I am in it for the passion. You ride a bike because you can't afford a car. The reasons are explained above.

You are the reason I don't pay tax.

dude, we haven't met.
you have no idea what i'm like.
keep your analysis, it's worthless.
when i said meet me before you judge, it wasn't an invitation.
maybe you should switch to decaf.

[NhuanH]

You are the sum total of a sheltered kiwi and don't have a single thought of your own. It is not your country, it is ours. I don't need to meet you to pass judgment - actions speak volumes. You have already failed in life, hence your preference for the safety net of socialism. You're full of ideology, indoctrinated from your upbringing and poor education. You are a non achiever and envious of people that succeed. You have given up all hope of achieving anything great in life and settle for mediocrity. You are not capable of making decisions for yourself and want to be guided in life. You lack responsibility and accountability. You really don't care about this country at all. You are selfish and should be kept away from young boys and small animals.

In short, we have nothing in common. You could say that we share a common interest in biking however I am in it for the passion. You ride a bike because you can't afford a car. The reasons are explained above.

You are the reason I don't pay tax.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
bwahaha, the above statement is so inaccurate, it's obscenely funny! Thanks mucho for the entertainment Finn.

[Finn]

Uh, so you admire Mr Brash, then, I take it?

Not so fast Mr Marxist, but stay with me here, you'll like where it's going. I've lost hope for this country. No party impresses me. Act was once close, but god forbid that we should be responsible for our own lives.

I'm beginning to think that Kiwi's need something really radical. Since it is obvious we are happy being told how to run our lives, that we know no better, I think communism is the only answer. I think it's perfect for NZ and funnily enough, will acheive the same outcome of capitalism (but it'll just take longer to get there)

[oldrider]

i did.
don brash is a fool, and i don't want him in power.
Be thankful that you still have the freedom to choose, Helen's crew would make a rule against that if they were politically able to and it would all be done in the name of equality!! (Mediocrity)
The jury is still out on Don being a fool but it's a fact that Helen is a self interested idealist that is shagging the country.
Of the two options I would rather take a punt on Don.:headbang:

[froggyfrenchman]

Not so fast Mr Marxist, but stay with me here, you'll like where it's going. I've lost hope for this country. No party impresses me. Act was once close, but god forbid that we should be responsible for our own lives.

I'm beginning to think that Kiwi's need something really radical. Since it is obvious we are happy being told how to run our lives, that we know no better, I think communism is the only answer. I think it's perfect for NZ and funnily enough, will acheive the same outcome of capitalism (but it'll just take longer to get there)

I have always said what we need is a brutal dictatorship.

Too sick of lazy fat assed dole bludging loosers

[Finn]

I have always said what we need is a brutal dictatorship.

Too sick of lazy fat assed dole bludging loosers

I was being a little more subtle about Badcat, but there you go.

[Badcat]

Be thankful that you still have the freedom to choose, Helen's crew would make a rule against that if they were politically able to and it would all be done in the name of equality!! (Mediocrity)
The jury is still out on Don being a fool but it's a fact that Helen is a self interested idealist that is shagging the country.
Of the two options I would rather take a punt on Don.:headbang:

i am thankful.
i've lived a lot of places, and love this one the most.
Ken

[froggyfrenchman]

I was being a little more subtle about Badcat, but there you go.

Disclaimer: I would like to state for the record that my comment was not directly aimed at any particular kiwibiker...

Unless that kber happens to be a lazy fat assed dole bludger living from handout to handout, in which case... Get a bloody job tubby!

[Finn]

i am thankful.
i've lived a lot of places, and love this one the most.
Ken

Bollocks. So you've spent a few months on a mates couch in London, been to Australia a couple of times and have got a few stamps in your passport.

[Ixion]

I was being a little more subtle about Badcat, but there you go.

He said "brutal" not "brutale".

[Badcat]

Bollocks. So you've spent a few months on a mates couch in London, been to Australia a couple of times and have got a few stamps in your passport.

Fuck off you little nonce.
again, you don't know me.

[Finn]

Fuck off you little nonce.
again, you don't know me.

Thank you. I had a bet with my wife on how many posts it would take before someone told me to fuck off.

[Ixion]

Who won ?

[Badcat]

Thank you. I had a bet with my wife on how many posts it would take before someone told me to fuck off.

go pick a fight in a bar.

[Finn]

Who won ?

She did. I'm loosing my touch.

Hey, how do I get that fat bastard off my avatar?

[Badcat]

She did. I'm loosing my touch.

Hey, how do I get that fat bastard off my avatar?

oops - sorry about that.

["D" FZ1]

Who the F##K voted her in anyway

[slimjim]

:headbang: :Punk: :headbang: fuck aussie might be better off soon:ride: :drinkup: :woohoo:

[Skyryder]

Brash had his chance...........jumped into bed with Christian bigots then denied it.

Now after slagging Maori..........the Nats are now talking to them as a future coalition partner; you think the foreshore is a done deal.........yep you're right, vote for the Nats and the foreshore 'will' be a done deal.

There is serious talk about the privatisation of the roads. Not in the media but this has been discussed. In simple terms it's philosohy runs similer to the railways. The railways carry freight and are a privatre entitiy. Why can not that be applied to the roading system that also carries freight. That's the think with the some Nats.

For those of you who think the country is fucked and that Helen and her lot can not be trusted...............here's a little reminder. Brash is a banker...............that's on par with a snake oil salesman. Remember the Westpac strike. That's the bank whose emplees were 'bonused' for getting you deeper into hock.

Skyryder

[Finn]

In 2000 the total tax revenue was $39 Billion. This year it is $72 Billion. What's wrong with this picture?

I'm just glad I don't contribute much to those bastards.

[Swoop]

Remember the Westpac strike. That's the bank whose emplees were 'bonused' for getting you deeper into hock.
Ummm, I think you will find most banks doing this.
All staff have to "sell" products, and the branches are rated/bollocked if not up to an imaginary figure... A bit like traffic cops really...:doobey:

[Str8 Jacket]

Ummm, I think you will find most banks doing this.
All staff have to "sell" products, and the branches are rated/bollocked if not up to an imaginary figure... A bit like traffic cops really...:doobey:

Yep it was like that when I worked for ASB 4-5 years ago. Selling products or "tag-ons" as the bank called them would also help toward promotions etc as well...

[Swoop]

Yep it was like that when I worked for ASB 4-5 years ago. Selling products or "tag-ons" as the bank called them would also help toward promotions etc as well...
Yup, my ex worked for them a few years back with the same bullshit sales mentality as they still have now...
In the end I rang up the organ grinder, CEO Ralph Noriss, and asked him why there was such a high staff turnover in his bank, and also why morale was so shit. Weird, I would have thought he would have answered those questions...
ASB calls their programme "Success".
The codeword for "bend the customer over and relieve them of more hard earned $$$".

[XTC]

Can you guts stop quoting Finn. It makes it pointless having him on my ignore list if I can still see the dribble he posts!

[Finn]

Can someone please quote this just for XTC...

:baby: :baby: :baby: :crybaby: :crybaby: :crybaby:

[DMNTD]

Can someone please quote this just for XTC...
:baby: :baby: :baby: :crybaby: :crybaby: :crybaby:
What,like this? :innocent:

[Finn]

What,like this? :innocent:

Fine thank you. You drink bourbon right?

[DMNTD]

Fine thank you. You drink bourbon right?
Yes sir...I most certainly do

[The_Dover]

In 2000 the total tax revenue was $39 Billion. This year it is $72 Billion. What's wrong with this picture?

I'm just glad I don't contribute much to those bastards.

cheap bastard. So that's my tax money your wasting on eurotrash?

[Finn]

So that's my tax money your wasting on eurotrash?

She's not that bad now that I get her to shave her armpits.