National Gubbinment, PLEASE sell Kiwibank!

[avgas]

Are you trying to tell us that the great metropolis of Otematata will actually be different with a change of government?

Hey, i thoroughly enjoyed my stay there - but the AWA AM radio im my motel room was broken.
But the grub for brekky was absolutely fantastic - i felt so good that i donned my PPE gear and immediately got to work.
Then when the job was finished i thrashed my hire camry all the way back to Queenstown airport to catch my flight home.
Best working holiday ever.

[oldrider]

Hey, i thoroughly enjoyed my stay there - but the AWA AM radio im my motel room was broken.
But the grub for brekky was absolutely fantastic - i felt so good that i donned my PPE gear and immediately got to work.
Then when the job was finished i thrashed my hire camry all the way back to Queenstown airport to catch my flight home.
Best working holiday ever.

So you were the "other" guy in town that day! Sorry I didn't say g'day. Cheers John.

[oldrider]

Are you trying to tell us that the great metropolis of Otematata will actually be different with a change of government?

[I]Otematata has survived quite a few changes of government with little change because of it, apart from the increase in cost of living here.[/I]

I reckon you guys will just keep on keeping on like you always have.

I certainly hope you are correct merv.

I thought your mrs was a pensioner now too, so she'd be happy to keep a socialist government wouldn't she

Yes, we both are indeed in that respect but in spite of, rather than because of our self serving Socialist governments!

We have paid the premiums for over forty five years, so when the policy matures we expect to be paid out too, just like any other insurance policy we have paid into until maturity!

They shifted the goal posts on us once, I quite expected them to do it again but for the timing of this election, saved by the bell, I reckon! Cheers John.

[Mikkel]

Isn't that a type of vodka?

Absolete Banking.....

I bloody well misspelled obsolete again didn't I?

Dunno why I do that - maybe some weird connection with absolve in my brain...

The vodka - Absolut - is absolutely the best value for money IMHO.

[Swoop]

From the Harold...

Marketing with numbers - always tricky: A reader writes: "If Cherie says that late last week the counter on the Kiwibank Downtown Shopping Centre billboard was at 326,000, then Kiwibank are experiencing something of a customer exodus, as today the counter, though still counting up, was at 275,000. Maybe something to do with John Key and Bill English's plans for the "second term"? And isn't it funny how at any given time of the day (oh, let's say 2.30am Sunday), the counter suggests that roughly 30 people every 10 seconds are "joining the movement"? At such a rate, there are just under 260,000 new customers each day, which means that in just over two weeks, the entire population of New Zealand will have joined. Whatever the case is, the inconsistencies can hardly be supportive of the patriotic ad campaign that implies all the Aussie banks are out to trick us.

[Sparrowhawk]

Swoop, I agree. You should be able to go to the post office and post shit.

It's funny how labour is saying how great kiwibank is. They save $$ by using NZPost space, NZPost staff, make extra money by accepting bill payments over the counter, yet the tax payer STILL has to give them MILLIONS each year. Oh great. Free account. Whoop-de-shit if I still have to pay for them to keep their doors open even if I'm not a fucking customer (which I'm not).

Oh yeah, while we're at it, let's dog the aussie owned banks. Never do anything for new zealand (let's choose to forget the westpac rescue helicopter, BNZ Save the Kiwi, and BNZ's sponsorship of Preventing Violence in the Home, and all the cash the aussie banks pour into sports & arts)

Fuck off kiwi bank. Take labour with you.

[jrandom]

The vodka - Absolut - is absolutely the best value for money IMHO.

Pint bottles of Stoli with tear-off foil caps ftw.

[nudedaytona]

Yeah we got cheap power like Max Bradford promised, and Telecom gives us a fantastic world class internet network, and AirNZ did so well investing in Ansett etc etc.....

The sale of core tax payer owned infrastructure and business assets to me seemed to be the con of the century because the greedies don't invest enough in development because it comes off the annual bottom line and they want instant returns.

The issue here is market structure, not ownership. While telecom's internet services aren't good, they would not be any better if telecom was government owned, remember that it used to take a month to get your phone line connected? (Well I don't I'm too young, buts that's what I've heard). And its hard to see how electricity would be any cheaper if we had the government monopoly ECNZ still running electricity.

Most people can get cheaper electricity if they switch, even you - how about you stop moaning about it and actually look how much you're paying compared with other power cos in your area.

Air NZ overpaying for Ansett and not competing effectively in Oz was a business decision that went wrong, although it certainly didn't help that Keating renegged on his open skies promise. Any airline, whether govt or privately owned, could have made the same mistake and there are plenty of airlines that have done worse.