The 2006 Budget

[Lou Girardin]

That will make me feel much better when I can't get a hip replacement.
That they're telling a bunch of fat bastards to eat lettuce, with my money.
Roll on 2008.

[Postie]

this is from the NZ Herald today

2.45pm Thursday May 18, 2006
By Simon Collins
Key points from today's Budget

True to its word, the Labour Government has poured money into roading and the elderly rather than cut taxes in its seventh Budget today.

Spending on land transport - mainly new roads - will rise by almost half, from around 0.9 per cent to around 1.3 per cent of the national income, in the next three years.

Residential care and home-based support for the elderly will get $126 million extra over the next four years.

Other main points of the Budget are:

* The budget surplus, after allowing for accounting changes, will shrink from $7 billion in 2005-06 to $5.8 billion in the coming year, bottoming at $3.6 billion in 2008-09. That's a drop from 4.5 per cent of the national income to 3.6 per cent and 2 per cent.

* Tax rates are unchanged.

* Economic growth is forecast to slow to 1.5 per cent both this year and next year, before recovering to 3.7 per cent in 2007-08.

* Jobs will shrink by 0.2 per cent in the coming year and unemployment will rise to 4.7 per cent.

* Money will be poured into areas aimed at "transforming" the economy from commodities to high-value products, with big boosts for science, export marketing and the Venture Investment Fund, as well as roading.

* Modern apprentice numbers will increase to 14,000 by the end of 2008.

* The Budget implements Labour's $1 billion election promise to scrap interest on student loans, and raises the parental income threshold for the full student allowance from $35,000 a year to $39,270.

* The Government will spend $76 million over the next four years on a campaign for healthy eating to stem obesity.

* Promised "school-ready" health checks for four-year-olds, improved school dental services and newborn hearing tests are implemented.

* A 10-year buildup in defence spending announced last year will continue with a $73 million increase this year.

[The_Dover]

Oh my god, my job is going to shrink?? Will I still fit in it?

[Postie]

Oh my god, my job is going to shrink?? Will I still fit in it?

just eat less Wendy's you tubby bitch, then you'll fit right in

[Swoop]

Solve 2 problems with 1 go.

Get all the fat cunts onto a treadmill that is hooked up to the national electricity grid.
Free electricity AND skinny people!!!
When the country is healthy again, we can put the lazy bastards in prison in their place...

[MattRSK]

Message to parents: It IS OK TO LET YOUR KIDS WALK TO SCHOOL.

There are no more abductions of kids today than there was when I was at school. 99.9999% chance they will be SAFE! You walked to school and turned out ok! Get over it, you are teaching your kids to take the car wherever they go, they are not getting daily forced exercise and they are getting FAT.

And you'll help solve our road congestion problems!

Oh, and fat people just need reminding that the feed hole up top is bigger than the out hole down bottom.

Well said, respect given.

[TwoSeven]

does it really cost $19M a year to tell people to eat salad

* The Government will spend $76 million over the next four years on a campaign for healthy eating to stem obesity.

well done Labour, money well spent. Thank fuck they didn't put that towards somthing trivial like the hospitals and medical staff.........

Ask yourself this, is it better to spend $5 to buy a new coffee cup, or spend $1 preventing it from breaking in the first place.

[cowpoos]

Get fucked.

Wendy's is expensive enough.

the asians have nice shoes there....hmmm

[Highlander]

Pouring money in to fight obesity. They did that for "Aunty Donna" they just didn't realise it til later.

[Coyote]

Ask yourself this, is it better to spend $5 to buy a new coffee cup, or spend $1 preventing it from breaking in the first place.

It's better to invest the dollar in Telecom, and if anything happens to the cup, blame it on someone and get the tax payers to recoup losses

[R6_kid:Me]

Message to parents: It IS OK TO LET YOUR KIDS WALK TO SCHOOL.

There are no more abductions of kids today than there was when I was at school. 99.9999% chance they will be SAFE! You walked to school and turned out ok! Get over it, you are teaching your kids to take the car wherever they go, they are not getting daily forced exercise and they are getting FAT.

you're telling me. The local school (across the road from my house), about 90% of children a driven to school by soccer mums. And 99% of the children live within 2km of the school.

I used to walk 4km to school, there was a bus originally, but when i was old enough to not complain i was told to walk - didnt take that long to get home if there was a good movie on sky in the afternoon.

[Finn]

Well this is what happens when academic lefties full of ideoligy get in power. I hope you lot are happy now. Hands up all you inbred peasants who voted for labour... Go on... show your faces.

[Ixion]

Actually, peasants (in bred or otherwise) would be both unlikely, and ill advised, to vote Labour. Either now or historically.

[Finn]

Actually, peasants (in bred or otherwise) would be both unlikely, and ill advised, to vote Labour. Either now or historically.

I haven't heard from you Ixion and was beginning to worry about you, hence I knew this post would find you. Glad you're okay.

Let me translate for you...

Inbred - We are a small island full of very strange, knuckle dragging, uneducated, rather odd looking people.

Peasants - Unemployed Kiwi's that don't have a single thought of their own who meaninglessly wander the country in search of handouts.

[Ixion]

I haven't heard from you Ixion and was beginning to worry about you, hence I knew this post would find you. Glad you're okay.

Let me translate for you...

Inbred - We are a small island full of very strange, knuckle dragging, uneducated, rather odd looking people.

Peasants - Unemployed Kiwi's that don't have a single thought of their own who meaninglessly wander the country in search of handouts.

Translation not needed. Communists know about peasants.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.

peasant


A farmer or agricultural worker of low status. The word is applied chiefly to agricultural workers in Asia, Europe, and South America, who generally adhere to traditional agricultural practices and have little social mobility or freedom. 1

Being , as it were, proto-capitalists, only interested in increasing the value of their farms and selling the produce thereof at higher prices (which is why they are unlikely to vote labour) , it is necessary, for the good of the revolution, to collectivise them.

Historically the peasantry evolved into the yeomanry, and are antipathetically opposed to the bourgoisie (that's you, of course).