Jacinda

[pritch]

TDL that is all just too silly. The cuts Luxon was referring to were spending cuts not tax cuts.

Although since he visited the same think tank that advised Liz Truss, we can probably anticipate he will follow her inspiring example.

[Hoonicorn]

Inflation was caused by government spending to keep the economy going during the lockdowns, that damage has been done and we're paying back the cost now.

Unless Labour plan to continue printing money at pandemic levels, then we will see inflation slow down. Both Governments want to win this election so they can take credit for slowing down inflation even though it will happen anyway.

What will be dangerous is cutting spending that could help society, treating Inflation like a new pandemic that must be eliminated at any cost.

[TheDemonLord]

TDL that is all just too silly. The cuts Luxon was referring to were spending cuts not tax cuts.

So, Inflationary spending then.

And therefore cutting that will definitely help everyday Kiwis and small businesses.

Thanks for confirming...

[eldog]

These posts made me recall one example.

I used to walk the Beat as a young Cop .I used to talk to the young shit kickers.

One his name was Butch, nice kid , just got into a bit of mischief !

One nightshift at 3am I was called to a motor accident . A car had gone under a parked milk truck.

I picked up Butch's head from in a gutter !!!!! ( quite heavy a human head ?).

But anyway ,some make it some don't.

Strange, I should see this.
reminded me of a guy at primary school also named Butch
he could have come out of old USA gangsta movie.
he was tough and built like a slugger.
Destined for the wrong side of town.
he was only at our school for a short time.
remember being told he was going to make me pay on the was home from school.

nothing happened, still to this day never know what was the cause.


yes a few of us didn’t make it to adulthood often being taken out by own actions.
eg drunk driving, drug overdose etc we were so tough brigade

[R650R]

Inflation was caused by government spending to keep the economy going during the lockdowns, that damage has been done and we're paying back the cost now.

Unless Labour plan to continue printing money at pandemic levels, then we will see inflation slow down. Both Governments want to win this election so they can take credit for slowing down inflation even though it will happen anyway.

What will be dangerous is cutting spending that could help society, treating Inflation like a new pandemic that must be eliminated at any cost.

Trouble is there are other residuals issues on top.

People are free now, they want to travel and buy stuff before the next big thing happens.
Right now I have cash burning a hole but what I want to buy isn’t available physically, #firstworldproblems lol.
Lots of people are relocating or taking gap years/months to go do cool stuff. Have you tried to hire the staff you want these days? There’s extremeclabour shortage everywhere, that’s going to keep pushing wages which fuels price rises.
This mess ain’t over in a hurry.
The conspiracy inside me reckons it’s nearly intentional to fuel divide and create class warfare. Right now the elite would love breakdown that would create a new cashless world with productions costs reset. Well all wake up living like Mexicans or Chinese.

[TheDemonLord]

What will be dangerous is cutting spending that could help society, treating Inflation like a new pandemic that must be eliminated at any cost.

Why?

See, in that statement you said 'Could help society' - not 'does help society' or 'will help society', but Could.

So why is it dangerous to cut spending on something that by your own admission is uncertain?

Let's take the Government out of it and use a localized example - is it dangerous to stop spending money on a Lotto ticket? Sure, you might miss out on winning Millions - but the money you were going to spend could be better spent elsewhere on things that actually help your current situation.

At this point (particularly after reading a little history of Government spending in the 1800s vs the 1900s vs now) - I'm more inclined that we should absolutely cut all spending that is only 'could help', leaving on what is 'Will help' - and then very judiciously differentiating between those things that had some positive impact and those that were gravy trains.

[R650R]

[F5 Dave]

I can't read above, but let me guess.

Incel feels disempowered.

Incel shows rage against women.

Other Incel backs up feelings of anger and inadequacy.

Waaah waaah waaah.

[husaberg]

I can't read above, but let me guess.

Incel feels disempowered.

Incel shows rage against women.

Other Incel backs up feelings of anger and inadequacy.

Waaah waaah waaah.

i got through 10 seconds or so .
Up until they claimed that they suspected the NZ PM "sniffs things..... drug things"

[mashman]

Inflation was caused by government spending to keep the economy going during the lockdowns, that damage has been done and we're paying back the cost now.

Unless Labour plan to continue printing money at pandemic levels, then we will see inflation slow down. Both Governments want to win this election so they can take credit for slowing down inflation even though it will happen anyway.

What will be dangerous is cutting spending that could help society, treating Inflation like a new pandemic that must be eliminated at any cost.

Strange that inflation went down after the GFC.

[pritch]

Luxon is continually talking about the Governments failed policies. The simple minded believe him 'cause they don't know any better. They can't see that a world ranked COVID response and a world ranked economy are hardly failed policies.

This table contains some facts as opposed to 'reds under the bed' fantasies.

[TheDemonLord]

Luxon is continually talking about the Governments failed policies. The simple minded believe him 'cause they don't know any better. They can't see that a world ranked COVID response and a world ranked economy are hardly failed policies.

This table contains some facts as opposed to 'reds under the bed' fantasies.

Hows about we run the same graph with countries that didn't follow the same policies?

That would be a fairer comparison...

[Kendog]

Hows about we run the same graph with countries that didn't follow the same policies?

That would be a fairer comparison...

Show us please

[TheDemonLord]

Show us please

Not my burden of proof.

That would be Pritchs.

If he wants to make the claim that NZ did so much better than everywhere else, then he needs to compare our performance against countries that followed different policies.

[R650R]

Luxon is continually talking about the Governments failed policies. The simple minded believe him 'cause they don't know any better. They can't see that a world ranked COVID response and a world ranked economy are hardly failed policies.

This table contains some facts as opposed to 'reds under the bed' fantasies.

Well it’s not his fault Jacinda created so many of them to talk about.

While a graph of numbers may look good, most people are concerned with the change HERE in real world livability and crime etc compared to what we previously had.
Labour epically over promised and underdelivered as they’ve didn’t expect to win in 2017.

World ranked covid response.... we left Borders wide open for months, it started in December in China and we all watched in awe as they welded shut doors etc in China and beat people out in streets in India.
Then Jacindas friend in uk rings her up and says it’s real bad shut the border. World class policy based on phone call from a BFF, yeah that’s top notch