NZ should have full employment!

[vifferman]

With taxes being put to such pathetic use, and jobs being done in incredibly inefficient ways... I'm sure we could reach full employment in now time.

Sounds like "back in the good old / bad old days", when there was no unemployment, and a bazillion people worked for the Gubmint (MOW, Railways, NZ Post, etc.) On the plus side, public transport was cheap and went virtually everywhere, and public works projects like new roads weren't hampered by the Resource Manglement Act.

[vifferman]

Yep, it's a jobs for Labour supporters scheme. Those who can be bothered to get off their arses and actually waddle to the WINZ office are doing OK.

Oh.
Mebbe that's the problem with #2 Son: apart from three weeks as a "clean-up dude" at the local butchery, he's been unemployed since July, and had an income of $0.00.
But he doesn't support Labour.
Maybe that's the real reason he won't walk up the road to the local WINgerZ office....

[ManDownUnder]

I've been working on road wroks and had cars racing by at 100kph+ in a 50kph zone. It's no f*cking joke when someone realises too late that there's a sign in front of them - they swerve take out the sign and it goes flying past your head!

I fully support what you're saying about tax dollars and such - but it's gotta be directed at the right people.

I hear what you're saying - experienced similar myself (not so extreme I admit) ... but wouldn't 2 guys and one vehicle (big f**k off truck with signs and stuff on it) have been enough?

5 guys, 3 vehicles all chasing stationary pieces of paper as they lay in the grass about 5m off the road all reminded me of a Character out of Spike Miligans book "Dip the Puppy".

Fred was a banana hunter... he hunted bananas. I figure they're about as dangerous as bits of paper...

[ambler]

• Guy #1 had a claw thingy, rubbish sack, gloves, high vis gear, was on foot picking up bits and pieces and stuffing them into a sack as he went.
• Guy #2 was in a ute following him at a slow walking pace, hopped on the back (for the rubbish I expect)
• Guy #3 was driving a HUGE truck at walking pace behind the ute, hadsigns on the back, flashing lights and an anti crash pad on the back of it
• Guy #4 was in ANOTHER f'n huge truck... lights signs and an anticrash pad... crawling along behind the truck slowly driven by Guy #3
• Guy #5 was taking it easy, sitting in the passenger seat alongside guy #4, (letting #4 do all the hard work I suspect)

If you've ever wondered why Japan's unemployment is so low, take the above and multiply it by five, then add a hundred unnecessary roadworks projects for every district of the country... it's basically a 'work for dole' system but still keeps the statistics looking good.

[Colapop]

Too many guys have been killed or seriously hurt doing roadside work. That's the reason for all the trucks and warning signs etc. It's not the guys on the side of the road it's the f*cktards driving their 4x4's or cars or other trucks that are the hazard.

In that story there was only one guy that maybe shouldn't have been there, the second guy in the truck - unless he was training (to do the job) or there for some other legitimate reason. All of the other guys were there because of the idiots that exist on our roads - that we as motorcyclists are all too familiar with in their attempts to kill us.

[Mekk]

I think it's great that those five guys have all got jobs. Especially jobs that are hassled by the rest of society as being for underlings and "working class".

It sure beats those that bludge off the rest of us.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

So here's how it was done.

• Guy #1 had a claw thingy, rubbish sack, gloves, high vis gear, was on foot picking up bits and pieces and stuffing them into a sack as he went.
• Guy #2 was in a ute following him at a slow walking pace, hopped on the back (for the rubbish I expect)
• Guy #3 was driving a HUGE truck at walking pace behind the ute, hadsigns on the back, flashing lights and an anti crash pad on the back of it
• Guy #4 was in ANOTHER f'n huge truck... lights signs and an anticrash pad... crawling along behind the truck slowly driven by Guy #3
• Guy #5 was taking it easy, sitting in the passenger seat alongside guy #4, (letting #4 do all the hard work I suspect)

5 guys, 3 vehicles, God only knows how much fuel inching their way along the road doing a job the average 16 year old could safely do, alone, much faster.

With taxes being put to such pathetic use, and jobs being done in incredibly inefficient ways... I'm sure we could reach full employment in now time.

Sounds like they were on PD