Your contribution is thankfully received "and" is used frugally on essential goods! Cheers, Mr and Mrs oldrider.Originally Posted by Banditbandit
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Your contribution is thankfully received "and" is used frugally on essential goods! Cheers, Mr and Mrs oldrider.
dodgy is as dodgy does
try on good old KB for a start. The facade put forward by the right whingers is that they are all high income eaners, and all they ever do is whine and complain about...
the only problem is, as a percentage there aren't a lot of people who are multi-generational welfare recipients and they really don't get a hell of a lot of money.generational welfare dependancy, the waste of potential caused by the system
Yes, but the mantra of cutting benefits and making benefits harder to get no more deals with the problem than putting more petrol in my bike deals with the problem that it's slow. if anything those methods actually make things worse, but they're popular with the voters, so that's what we'll do.There has to be a better way.
Don't blame me, I voted Green.
Having a Zen moment...
Those of you who think voting for Act or the Nats because they are the parties that have policies that justly reward hard work should look at the effect of similar policies in the states.
Like turkeys voting for Christmas...
Redefining slow since 2006...
Forum whore
Who'll win the election?
John Key will win it for his party of useless reactionaries, with less sense of history and what works for a society than my cat!
And if NZ voters reckon a state house raised, 90's wide boy, who made his millions gambling with other peoples money in ponzi schemes that destroyed countless lives and likes being Prime Minister so he can meet celebrities and hob nob with more of his ilk is a person to aspire to, than you're welcome to what's coming - more of the '90s style National administration that did so much to ensure NZ'ers wages and lifestyle was driven into the ground.
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
Just faidin away!
There I fixed that for you, you accidentally left Labour out!
I'ma get medieval on your ass!
Sorry mate can't let that pass.
John Key was a currency trader and a very good one. It is a rare skill and most currency traders burn out.
We actually need people like this because they flatten out the highs and lows of exchange rates. Remember - for every buyer there is a seller. Businesses like to be able to buy forward exchange cover to guarantee the exchange rate in say, 6 months time when they export logs/milk/electronics or buy oil/cars/electronics.
Currency traders calculate and provide those forward contracts. That is their job. If they do it right there is a tiny margin (but multiplied by millions) for the bank they work for.
Occasionally they get it wrong - Nick Leeson destroyed Barings Bank. http://www.scribd.com/doc/16606536/C...nd-Nick-Leeson
Watchful Old Bird
Don't you mean he was very good at gambling with other peoples money - oops that's what he is still doing , only now it's our money.
Highway Biker
Yeah yeah, we know, but he's got ever such a nice smile, and that's all that matters isn't it?
I'ma get medieval on your ass!
Good link and I agree there is a huge disconnect between effort and reward in the USA. Strangely enough though, Americans seem to embrace it on the proposition that anyone can achieve wealth and success.
You'd think times would be changing but the latest brouhaha over govt borrowing levels shows an almost pathological abhorrence of increased taxation.
However I don't perceive anyone apart from perhaps ACT as pursuing similar policies in NZ.
dodgy is as dodgy does
And he's a good family man. The perfect PM in my book.Yeah yeah, we know, but he's got ever such a nice smile, and that's all that matters isn't it?
Don't blame me, I voted Green.
Aio ki te Aorangi
Not just the US ... I doubt it's a global phenomenon though
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
Psyclepath
Ain't just the US...look at the problems in the UK when those that pick up rewards for SFA effort thought they might be under threat of having to work.
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
I'ma get medieval on your ass!
You could say that but its meaningless. Your local bank teller also gambles with your money when you get her to set up a term deposit. You gamble that your employer is going to pay you at the end of the week - why not insist on getting the money first up front? You gamble your money when you order anything online.
IMHO we live in a weird nation when a person is disrespected because they achieve success.
Just faidin away!
Welcome to our world .... NZ is about as weird as it gets in that respect!
Forum whore
The Ayan Rand six step.
Step one: Discredit government.
Step two: Starve it.
Step three: When the underfunded government can’t perform, stand back and say “I told you so.”
Step four: Create the myth of the individual uber-alles – the Marlboro man on steroids;
Step five: If anyone gets wise, find a scapegoat and blame it on them – gays, immigrants, government workers; government working gay immigrants, dole bludgers, solo mums....
Step six: When things get bad, divide and conquer – “if it wasn’t for them…........
John Atcheson
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
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