Jacinda

[husaberg]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-about-council

I discovered during a conversation with an old council tenant mate of mine tonight why councils all over the country are increasing rent.
Apparently the national government were subsidizing council housing in an effort to keep rents manageable for their tenant's.
Labour has very quietly chucked that out & made the councils look like the villans for having to increase rents as a result.
It gets worse, govt have now funded a Maori housing govt department into buying the housing off council so it shall forever henceforth become Maori housing.
Clearly subsidizing council tenant's wasn't helping labour's socialist brand, yet toothy was crowing about what she was doing for social housing only last week after lining up to compete with first home buyers to purchase lower braket housing to house the people they have shat on.
Waits for fanboi to justify, even though I never check back.

As someone else replied that is the counils deision what they charge which is still well below market rental.

A report presented to the Marlborough District Council last week suggested it might need to increase its senior housing rent by about 35 per cent, to stay in line with its own policy of charging 80 per cent of the current market rate.
Figures put to the housing for seniors sub-committee, which oversees the council’s senior housing portfolio, showed it was charging pensioners about $175 a week in rent for a one-bed unit, or about $225 a week for a two-bed. The rent of an average one-bedroom flat in Blenheim was $300 a week, while a two-bedroom was $380.

She claims its not to be able to get a housing subsidy as she has 10g in the bank to pay for her funeral so why does she no pre-pay her funeral?

Why do I need a prepaid funeral trust?
A prepaid funeral trust is a great way to prepare for the future and make things easier on your loved ones by reducing financial stress during a difficult time.

Funeral costs generally start at about $4,000 and can go up to $10,000 or more depending on your wishes. With a prepaid funeral trust you can take comfort knowing that your funeral expenses are taken care of. This includes funeral direction and registration of death, costs of a casket and hearse, cremation or burial, headstone or plaque, flowers, a minister or celebrant, newspaper notices and the reception.

The value of a prepaid funeral trust up to $10,000 is currently excluded as an asset by Work and Income when applying for a Residential Care Subsidy.

https://www.publictrust.co.nz/person...funeral-trusts
https://www.govt.nz/browse/housing-a...-with-housing/

To suggest National had more housing benefits is interesting. do you actually have any facts to back it up?

Anyway, maybe you might want to remember some of your previous posts.

So when you reach an age at which you would like to retire & you have no assets or money, you live exactly how? By getting a cheap Govt subsidised flat in shitsville & a benefit until you die in poverty & misery?

I dont understand why the Govt should provide knock down cheap housing for the lazy & stupid paid for by the taxpayer.
Lazy & stupid are choices, so is having fuck all of a house.

Get given a sweet rent deal by the taxpayer because you're a useless fuck, ruin the house with your expensive & illegal habit ensuring that nobody else can use it until a huge amount of remedial work is carried out, also at the expense of the tax payer, to make it safe again.
Apparently the taxpayer now has to fund pre booked motel beds to get the homeless through winter.
I'm fuckin over it, sounds like these pricks deserve to be homeless. Cry me a river.

We'll thank fuck for that. I thought they were going to miss a fantastic speculative opportunity there in favour of propping up losers.
Now they have a heap more money to buy a patch of dirt in a more appropriate location to house the poor & needy.

Sorry, I dont understand the problem, is there a reason why the property shouldnt be sold at market rates?
Like I said earlier, there are places people can buy houses other than Auckland. Believe it or not there is a whole country of small & affordable towns south of the Bombays, so no need to live under a bridge, unless your head is firmly up your arse.

So being market savvy, & prepared to take an educated punt in order to make a buck for myself so as not be state dependant in my old age makes me a greedy cunt.
Does not doing that that make you a lazy cunt?

[R650R]

We haven’t got David Letterman’s top ten lists anymore..... wonder if he did a top ten signsvyour living in a third world communist dictatorship.....

If the rolling no notice power cuts (note they don’t call them blackouts or Brian outs anymore...) the other day werent bad enough now we have the Green Party removing Winston Churchhills painting From govt building.......

[pete376403]

So you are implying the blackouts were Labours fault? Someone should as Max Bradford about the success of his electricity reforms

[husaberg]

We haven’t got David Letterman’s top ten lists anymore..... wonder if he did a top ten signsvyour living in a third world communist dictatorship.....

If the rolling no notice power cuts (note they don’t call them blackouts or Brian outs anymore...) the other day werent bad enough now we have the Green Party removing Winston Churchhills painting From govt building.......

Interesting that you wouldn't blame the free market economy for the current lack of power supply would you prefer they legislate the power generators.....

Meridian spilled water to hike electricity prices - Authority ruling
Reporter
andrew.mcrae@rnz.co.nz
The Electricity Authority has found that generator Meridian Energy manipulated the power market, costing consumers about $80 million.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/...thority-ruling

Lack of competition pushed up prices when Meridian spilled water, Electricity Authority says
ower retailers say the Electricity Authority’s ruling that a lack of competitive pressure pushed electricity prices higher than they should have been for almost a month last year is a sign that the market is broken.

The authority has been investigating a claim from Haast Energy Trading, Ecotricity, Electric Kiwi, Flick Electric, Oji Fibre, Pulse Energy Alliance and Vocus, received on December 12 last year, that there had been an “undesirable trading situation".
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300...authority-says

Starting point for Meridian sanction should be $38m, Haast Energy says
Meridian Energy should pay more than $38 million for unnecessarily spilling water from its South Island dams, independent retailer Haast Energy has told the Electricity Authority.

The Electricity Authority expects to decide next month whether Meridian and Contact Energy manipulated the price of electricity by wasting water that they could have used for hydro generation late last year.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/123...ergy-says?rm=a

During the last governments, Regn Transpower expected all the local generators to pay for a DC upgrade even if they were only to use it locally as a result a lot of smaller local schemes were never completed.
Why should the south island generators pay for a DC upgrade to power the North island when it's meant to be user pays.
the current govt fixed this it turns out National never wanted user pays
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ea-sticks...ission-pricing

[Scuba_Steve]

now we have the Green Party removing Winston Churchhills painting From govt building.......

I don't know why the SJW are so upset by this?
He wasn't a NZer had fuck all to do with NZ other than getting alot of them killed so why even have him up in the 1st place?

[F5 Dave]

Got a hell lot more Indians killed. They effectively bought back thier independence with countless dead soldiers.

[pritch]

So you don't like Jacinda. It could be worse, we could have a shit show like the one in Australia. OK, the writer is hardly neutral, but the rapes, the rorts, and the racism are a matter of record.

https://theaimn.com/if-youre-not-ang...ing-attention/

[george formby]

Grumpy has quite a way with words.

[F5 Dave]

Uses quite a lot of them.

As it happens I'm not a fan of ScoMo and it's not a stretch to imagine his brethren.

[Grumph]

"Performative onanism"
I'd suggest a new category in pink hell for posts meeting this definition.

We all know who puts them up - currently R650R is the leader in the category.

Aussies - they've got the politicians they deserve. Let them suffer.

[jellywrestler]

Got a hell lot more Indians killed. They effectively bought back thier independence with countless dead soldiers.

so did general custer and he's a hero to many

[scumdog]

I don't know why the SJW are so upset by this?
He wasn't a NZer had fuck all to do with NZ other than getting alot of them killed so why even have him up in the 1st place?

It would have been nice if they asked a few others if they minded the pic being moved.

After all the Greenies are just some sort of minor rabble at present...

[husaberg]

It would have been nice if they asked a few others if they minded the pic being moved.

After all the Greenies are just some sort of minor rabble at present...

Like in that referendum on asset sales in 2013 where 67.30% of Kiwis said they were opposed to asset sales.
"Do you support the Government selling up to 49% of Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Power, Solid Energy and Air New Zealand?"
Then despite the clear and obvious will of the majority of the Peiple of NZ the Government between 2013 and 2014 sold 49% of state power companies Genesis, Mighty River Power and Meridian Energy. It also sold down its stake in Air New Zealand from around 73% to about 53%.

They also as a final insult made considerably less than they promised it would.
Despite some very early suggestions from Prime Minister John Key that the asset sales could raise as much as $10 billion, Then followed by an official target of $5 billion to $7 billion
it only raised $1.7 billion from MRP, nearly $1.9 billion from Meridian, $733 million from Genesis and $365 million from Air New Zealand.

[F5 Dave]

so did general custer and he's a hero to many

Yeah, spoiler. They weren't Indians.

[Bikertrader]

nope national were certainly not perfect as the labour government before them wasnt but the current pack of arsehats fuck up everything they touch

Yep , completely incompetent .