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

[Voltaire]

You really do need to get a handle on this cause and effect thing. Norway can afford high public spending because their citizens are highly productive, not the other way around.

As usual: work first, then spend, not the typical socialist methodology.

we might be too if 30% of our economy was down to pumping oil out of the ground.
I don't if Norways citizens are much harder working than anywhere else.
Didn't strike me as industrious when I was sidecaring my way to the Arctic Circle in 1991

[mashman]

Man that toastie looks yum.

You're spot on...

Norway is a great example of hard work and "leftism" - funny that what we call left here is actually still conservative in Norway. One of the lowest debt to GDP ratios in the world. High tax, free education, good social services, welfare, and nearly half the unemployment rate of us = at only 3.9%. 83.5% of Norwegians own their own homes compared to what in NZ, just over 50%? Not to mention unlike us and the Aussies they saved every dollar they made from selling their resources so now have a global pension fund of $460 billion dollars.

That probably sounds like a shit hole and raw deal to Yokel.

Here's what their "Right Wing" Conservative PM had to say about the Norway way:

http://thepolitic.org/an-interview-w...ter-of-norway/

Who would've guessed that if you invest in people and value them they would be productive... I mean shit it's not like we do the same thing with kids we raise right?

Who would have guessed that the average Norwegian worker is more than double productive than the kiwi and is top internationally for GDP per hour worked.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...er_hour_worked

I guess Norway does more to help their people with things like free education. Obviously an old way of doing things, yet it looks as though it works... who woulda thunk it eh.

[mashman]

we might be too if 30% of our economy was down to pumping oil out of the ground.
I don't if Norways citizens are much harder working than anywhere else.
Didn't strike me as industrious when I was sidecaring my way to the Arctic Circle in 1991

Nope. Some country's have a really special breed of people. This is true, because reports say so.

[oldrider]

How come i didnt get a copy of that speech
Sux being out of the loop

Because it was written in Yiddish - translated by AIPAC - actioned and distributed by US congress and financed by US federal reserve - are you in that loop?

[mashman]

How come i didnt get a copy of that speech
Sux being out of the loop

You had passed out under the barmaid at that time.

Because it was written in Yiddish - translated by AIPAC - actioned and distributed by US congress and financed by US federal reserve - are you in that loop?

bwaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa...

[blue rider]

bwhahahahahahahahahahah



http://www.hauraki.co.nz/listen/radi...ytail-pulling/

[blue rider]

i don't think that the old middle aged ladies with ponytails would give the prime minister really a kick, it seems that he is more after young ponytails





But then I guess, little girl can not learn early enough that their bodies are public prooperty.

[mada]

we might be too if 30% of our economy was down to pumping oil out of the ground.
I don't if Norways citizens are much harder working than anywhere else.
Didn't strike me as industrious when I was sidecaring my way to the Arctic Circle in 1991

Doubt it. Our economic management would be like Canada's debt-ridden, low tax, fuck all planning for the future, hands off approach if we were pumping out oil like the big players....

All Canada's stats are much more similar to ours - higher unemployment (7+%), lower homeownership rates (67%), lower productivity, high public debt, fuck all savings for the future.

[Voltaire]

Doubt it. Our economic management would be like Canada's debt-ridden, low tax, fuck all planning for the future, hands off approach if we were pumping out oil like the big players....

All Canada's stats are much more similar to ours - higher unemployment (7+%), lower homeownership rates (67%), lower productivity, high public debt, fuck all savings for the future.

True, especially when we have the likes of this moron.

Suggest they get someone from Auckland to be minister of housing as this guy has no idea.
Thought the sums would be pretty easy
50 000 immigrants..... might need to build some more houses...we should send them all down to the Tasman Electorate to live.

[puddytat]

i don't think that the old middle aged ladies with ponytails would give the prime minister really a kick, it seems that he is more after young ponytails

But then I guess, little girl can not learn early enough that their bodies are public property.

I reckon he had his first hard on when he was a kid, pulling the neighbouring Girls hair & his first wee masty shortly there after......its stuck with him ever since.
I bet every time that after he's had a wee fondle he heads off for a quick one to the nearest loo, no doubt blaming the coffee.

[oldrider]

I reckon he had his first hard on when he was a kid, pulling the neighbouring Girls hair & his first wee masty shortly there after......its stuck with him ever since.
I bet every time that after he's had a wee fondle he heads off for a quick one to the nearest loo, no doubt blaming the coffee.

Plausible true - but one wonders - how do you know about that kind of behaviour? (Old adage: It takes one to know one!) sorry - couldn't resist the temptation!

[willytheekid]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6800...nytail-pulling



Im gonna complain to every organisation that gets its funding from the Govt!...that'll show em!

Like the POLICE are going to act on this!...when they watch our crim Govt members on TV everyweek practically ADMITTING fraudulent activity and using there positions for personal gain....and they do NOTHING!...not a thing!

[mashman]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6800...nytail-pulling



Im gonna complain to every organisation that gets its funding from the Govt!...that'll show em!

Like the POLICE are going to act on this!...when they watch our crim Govt members on TV everyweek practically ADMITTING fraudulent activity and using there positions for personal gain....and they do NOTHING!...not a thing!

You mean bite the hand that feeds you? Are you mad (rhetorical )

[Ocean1]

we might be too if 30% of our economy was down to pumping oil out of the ground.
I don't if Norways citizens are much harder working than anywhere else.
Didn't strike me as industrious when I was sidecaring my way to the Arctic Circle in 1991

Oh aye, there's a slice of luck involved in shaping most countries circumstances. Like the luck we have in the ridiculous ease with which we produce sheep and milk.

But the earn first, spend later ethic is a required feature of any successful nation, no matter what they earn, or whatever their luck.

"Investing" in education to the extent the taxpayer used to do returned fuck all economic benefit, if you desperately want to study underwater tourist basket weaving you should probably be paying for it yourself. I have no problem with paying to train anyone in the skills required to grow the country.

[Brian d marge]

You had passed out under the barmaid at that time.



bwaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa...

Its the best place to be . . . . Back in the day . . . .one would come . . Back from the pub . . . Czech cartoon or open university on tv .somehow i could understand the open university . . . But the czech cartoon . . .was always beyond me then. . . . . a can or two of stones best bitter before heading out again for a kebab

So i might have a chance with this yiddish document for global domination