I wonder if this will make the TV news tonight?

[pritch]

And how the Government will spin it - damning stuff.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ntries-poorer/

[RDJ]

Greece and Turkey reduced inequality the most, so now they are economic powerhouses? Oh, wait a minute... funny how that seems to not work out for them.

it is of course true that New Zealand's inequality has increased by some measurements. A considerable part of the cause is because we have the State as the baby daddy for so many hundreds of thousands of women and children who no longer form part of a stable family unit along with a responsible husband/father. Very few politicians and governments ever seem to understand that when you reward bad behaviour you get more of it. When you rob net taxpayers and transfer their income to net taxconsumers by paying people to have children out of such a stable family unit you get more of that activity. And so it goes.

[yokel]

Greece and Turkey reduced inequality the most, so now they are economic powerhouses? Oh, wait a minute... funny how that seems to not work out for them.

it is of course true that New Zealand's inequality has increased by some measurements. A considerable part of the cause is because we have the State as the baby daddy for so many hundreds of thousands of women and children who no longer form part of a stable family unit along with a responsible husband/father. Very few politicians and governments ever seem to understand that when you reward bad behaviour you get more of it. When you rob net taxpayers and transfer their income to net taxconsumers by paying people to have children out of such a stable family unit you get more of that activity. And so it goes.

The government pays me to house solo's so the system is working just fine haha

[bogan]

"and dramatically reduced the bargaining power – and therefore the share of national income – of ordinary workers"

What's that bit mean? in the context of work going overseas.

[mashman]

"and dramatically reduced the bargaining power – and therefore the share of national income – of ordinary workers"

What's that bit mean? in the context of work going overseas.

It means that money is king and the people should go fuck themselves.

[willytheekid]

Why would the NZ News report the Truth??

...second to mexico FFS

[Berries]

...second to mexico FFS

Beat the Aussies though.

Hip Hip...........

[haydes55]

Scrap "accommodation supplementing". It has only made rent prices go higher. It's a round about way of giving investment property owners (read wealthy) tens of not hundreds of millions of $$$ every year.

Cost poor less, less money handed to poor by government and less rent going to wealthy. Sounds like that would slow the equality gap to me.

[mashman]

Scrap "accommodation supplementing". It has only made rent prices go higher. It's a round about way of giving investment property owners (read wealthy) tens of not hundreds of millions of $$$ every year.

Cost poor less, less money handed to poor by government and less rent going to wealthy. Sounds like that would slow the equality gap to me.

The wealthy need their wealth because they are more important to the economy and invest in "commodities" and "assets" that will further benefit NZ. As we keep being told (especially around the time that tax rises are in the offing), if you remove the ability for the wealthy to make more wealth, they will leave and NZ will be fucked. It's all a bullshit con to keep the sheeple scared that they won't receive their share of the infinite resource that's being portrayed as scarce. Don't believe the hype.

[awayatc]

i am doing allright....
not wealthy, nor poor.
Solution seems to me not as much in lowering higher levels [ very relative ]
but more in bringing lower levels up....

instead we seem to want to take away from those who are [slightly] better off....

interesting bit in article that caught my attention is that NZ doesn't have any policy/plan in place to educate youngsters of the growing number
of poorer parents...
Industry I am in pays ok....
but has zero young people come through the system....
not a single one..
So you guess who we are allready "importing" to earn these above average wages....?

[Moi]

...Industry I am in pays ok....
but has zero young people come through the system....
not a single one...

Why do you think the young are not interested in joining?

I'd hazard a guess that yours is not the only industry in which recruitment of young New Zealanders is problematic...

[awayatc]

Why do you think the young are not interested in joining?

I'd hazard a guess that yours is not the only industry in which recruitment of young New Zealanders is problematic...

not sure what you mean by joining...?

the workforce?
an above average income earning industry?
...?

I am convinced there are many other such industries,
i just mention mine, because that is the one I know most about...

[Swoop]

An interesting comment from a departing citizen recently.
"NZ will become a retirement country. You go overseas to earn your wealth and return to retire. Production and manufacture decline is already evident."

[awayatc]

An interesting comment from a departing citizen recently.
"NZ will become a retirement country. You go overseas to earn your wealth and return to retire. Production and manufacture decline is already evident."

Problem is retirees need a fair bit of special care and skill sets....

Mechanics to fix their vehicles and toys...
Tradies to maintain their homes ....
Untold individuals to maintain and pay for infra structure...
Hordes of people in all manner of medical professions to maintain and prolong flailing lives...
and lots of undertakers....

[Flip]

You voted in a centre right goverment, so get fucked!