Key Government out on its own. No one else to blame!

[Brian d marge]

didnt nz have a few nut jobs shooting people . .

[awayatc]

Yes we did......
And I can help you make a list of nutjobs that deserve shooting.....

Not holding my breath....
just quietly praying to allah

[mashman]

How many people did the US ex Marine kill...... barely gets a mention?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ades-home.html

Must have needed a flag.

[oldrider]

Current and existing legislation should have contained that nutcase in Australia but the execution of it failed and innocent people were executed instead!

The pendulum has swung too far the do gooders have gone too far - judges and lawyers are part of the problem rather than the solution now!

He even had a current gun license FFS!

[Scuba_Steve]

didnt nz have a few nut jobs shooting people . .

Yea most of them tend to wear Police patches... they also like to shoot dogs, well try anyways they're not very good at it

[buggerit]

I think it is a little naive to be suprised by nut jobs living in a penal colony

[mada]

Imagine if Jan Molenaar had been a muslim.

[oldrider]

Imagine if Jan Molenaar had been a muslim.

Hmmm - fair enough but maybe nobody else here knows/remembers who Jan Molenaar was! .. (Hint: Napier 2009)

[Robert Taylor]

i havent even checked how well i polled. My 'vote ax' campaign obviously missed the mark. I blame all you faggots.

I dont consent to be governed.

Hypocrite, you will happily though accept the benefits of how tax dollars are spent. What we need is a General Pinochet clone to do a bit of a spring clean here and there.

[oldrider]

Hypocrite, you will happily though accept the benefits of how tax dollars are spent. What we need is a General Pinochet clone to do a bit of a spring clean here and there.

Careful what you wish for - General Pinochet might not have been keen on Robert Taylors' .. you might end up as part of the spring experience! .

[SPman]

Another example of nice and comfy Johnboy's dealings

Back in 2011, National, the party of wheeler-dealers, cut a nice little crony capitalist deal with their donors Sky City: Sky City would build a new convention centre in Auckland, and in exchange we'd relax gambling laws to allow them to suck more money out of the poor, and pick up the tab if the centre went over-budget. Doing the negotiation process, Treasury warned that this was a bad idea:

However, if Ministers wish to proceed with a contractual arrangement with SkyCity, Treasury considers that the difficulty of accurately assessing both the costs of the building and the revenue generated by the concessions will inevitably expose the Government to significant risks. These relate to both the information asymmetry between SkyCity and the Crown and costs to the Crown in respect of both negotiating the contract initially and then managing it over an extended period such as 25 years.

That warning has now come true:

Design improvements, a new five-star hotel and inflation have rocketed up the SkyCity convention centre's pricetag by as much as $130 million.
And while additional gambling concessions are off the table to meet any shortfall for the building, taxpayer funding is under discussion.

Sky City made a profit of $123 million last year, so its not as if they can't afford to cover the extra cost. But why would they, when the government has agreed to? Indeed, why bother to control costs at all, when any increase or overrun will be paid for by someone else? The incentives National wrote into the deal are terrible, and a perfect example of the perils of crony capitalism. As for how to deal with it, the answer is simple: walk away. If Sky City thinks an international convention centre is so profitable, they can fund it themselves. And if its not, they shouldn't expect us to subsidise their operations and their profits.

But that's OK - no doubt the public are happy to pay up, yet again, for these economic geniuses wheeler dealering.......after all - they voted them back in...........

[Brian d marge]

Another example of nice and comfy Johnboy's dealings



But that's OK - no doubt the public are happy to pay up, yet again, for these economic geniuses wheeler dealering.......after all - they voted them back in...........

strangely enough
nz treasury are one of the better one
MOST of their investment . . .last time i looked made quite good profits
acc was something like 11 %

but . . . . . the shonkey honkey got involved , .

[awa355]

Now, this morning. Starting to turn pear shaped me thinks.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11378108

[oldrider]

Another example of nice and comfy Johnboy's dealings



But that's OK - no doubt the public are happy to pay up, yet again, for these economic geniuses wheeler dealering.......after all - they voted them back in...........

My interpretation of events was that New Zealand voted all of the others "out" ... rather than voted this government "in"!

Under MMP we can only vote aspirants to power "out" ... that result was very clear as to "who we did not want in!"

[Brian d marge]

greenpiece released a press statement stating in that the common lummoux has been placed on the endangered list due to spiraling environmental costs