Perhaps I'm old fashioned, or had good ethics taught to me by my parents, but, Idle, there is only ONE way to pull a rabbit out of a hat.... you have to put one in it first
sem fiddy pilot
Perhaps I'm old fashioned, or had good ethics taught to me by my parents, but, Idle, there is only ONE way to pull a rabbit out of a hat.... you have to put one in it first
.....your time is coming
What is wrong with that.Originally Posted by idleidolidyll
NZ is a small Country globally and it's location does not help it to promote overseas.
In many case, NZ is the first in a field but does not have the structure or contacts to promote the idea overseas.
Is it not good to have foreign investment to help promote what NZ is good at?
Scenario's
1. NZ business has great idea but domestic sales is not enough and inability to promote and build relationships overseas is detrimental to it's future.
2. NZ business has great idea. Spotted by overseas investor who has overseas connections / know how and is able to build the business both domestically and globally.
In case of 2, Business more than likely stay a NZ based one, paying taxes, providing job's, employement - spending power, which has a domino effect on other businesses who may grow etc etc.
Why are we so against overseas investment? We talk about how great NZ is, "Made in New Zealand"......take the effect the America's Cup had on boat building as a simple example.....yet we want to keep it for ourselves rather than capitalise on what we are good at.
Now this is a simple and less educated look on things but NZ is too small to self invest.
Forum whore
Were you here for the last lot of sellouts, started by an extreme right wing Labour government, then carried on by the Nats - strip down cut price giveaways to their mates, who then asset stripped them and sold on the husks!What is wrong with that.
1000 million dollar handouts to companies that fucked up because they were greedy and incompetent (BNZ).
Private companies are one thing - they will be bought and sold as and when, I have no worry with that, but, major public assets and infrastructure, should not be sold of to a "profit driven and to hell with the public" company that couldn't care less about anything except the bottom line.
A country is a living organism, not a pile of figures on a ledger sheet. It is infinite shades of grey, not black and white. Just as you get rot and disease from too much "leftie greeny" influence, so you get raging infectious sores, from too much rampant right wing robotism!
Too much on one side or the other, it all turns to a big pile of poo. It is possible to balance both sides of the equation, not that many governments achieve it, if any, but I reckon the current Labour government has done it better than a National government under Keys and his cronies would do.
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
Forum whore
And he continues to emotively pour forth his expletives from what he considers the moral high ground, from his convenient position of semi anonymity.
Forum whore
Because the world actually DOESNT owe you a living! Now, whilst the sewers of the world pour forth their filth I must continue working, millions on welfare depend on me.
Bogeyman
I agree, for different reasons.
The “sell-outs” were a reaction to the simple fact that the services in question were hideously expensive compared to private equivalents both here and overseas. That was largely because of poor management performance and very high labour numbers and costs., the former I suspect mostly because political interference has ever been a problem for government owned commercial enterprise, and the latter because of institutional inflexibility and inefficiency. Both were apparently considered unfixable, job for life, remember? I feel it was a mistake to biff the baby with the bathwater though, we should have retained ownership of the assets and contracted out the operational requirements.
You’re right, a country is a living organism, culturally and socially, that doesn’t mean you can ignore it’s economic health. If socialists see capitalists as heartless it’s possibly because they recognise that there’s a limit to the cultural and social problems able to be addressed commercially. A true balanced opposite of socialism in your equation would have every social resource put at the disposal of those who make the economy successful. That’s not capitalism, that’s a pre-industrial European “ideal”. Modern capitalists genuinely do represent the only workable middle ground, they simply want to be left with enough of the resources they’ve generated to remain viable. Socialists, by comparison seem to have no problem crippling the economy in order to support those who fail to contribute anything to it, a deathwish made real.
I do get sick of the over-the-top corporate phobia, commercial interests are normally very transparent, they need to make money to survive. So what? That’s exactly the same behaviour seen in those who take advantage of a social support system they contributed nothing to. It’s not difficult to write a contract that deals with any short-changing of services. If a supplier takes advantage of a poorly written service contract I’d find fault with the idiot that wrote it, the same fault I see in the idiocy that is our completely unsustainable social policy.
I doubt National will sell off any significant infrastructure, anything left in the public domain is so run down as to be worthless. Time, perhaps to realise that the piggy bank is empty. The contents have gone not to feed corporate greed, or to maintain the machinery required to re-fill it, but to feed a blind ideology that’s main weapon is individual greed. In the meantime our infrastructure has deteriorated from world class to third world joke, and our ability to rebuild it is threatened most by the current administration.
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Bogeyman
WRONG. Couldn't be more wrong, utterly incorrect. As wrong as wrong could concevably be, ....
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
has made a bo-bo in his nappies
Truly dumb shit from National:
"Labour is going to use the extra money it has to bribe voters"
"By the way, we're going to give you all tax cuts............"
Are you clowns seriously taken in by this bullshit?
ROTFLMFAO!
has made a bo-bo in his nappies
from someone who should know better we get a paragraph full of cliched fallacy
pardon me while i roll around on the floor laughing my fucking arse off...............
has made a bo-bo in his nappies
is there a point to that or were you just interested in seeing your post online?
Loud and Uncouth
Who cares? - I'm alright Jack.
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
sem fiddy pilot
That's rich coming from an attention seeker like yourself
Loud and Uncouth
No reason at all - just as long as you get a job.
And hopefully persuade those you know and love to get a job if they don't already have one and should.
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
has made a bo-bo in his nappies
No it's not. Please take a look at Singapore for an example.
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