What policy would DEFINITELY get your vote?

[Molly]

Introducing moral and ethics education into schools...

Teachers have the sense to address those sort of issues at every opportunity (as should, more particularly, decent parents).

[Trudes]

Hmm, I'm going to be driving Lambton Quay tomorrow. I drive Parnell Road every day as well, same thing. Point is, dumb pedestrian walking out without looking isn't protected at all - not saying that a bit of fibreglass/kevlar/and dead cow is heaps of protection, but... Even worse when it's ped vs cage...

Is slowing down really that big a deal in comparison to months of hospital rehab or a pine box?

Sounds like Darwinism to me, if you're too stupid to look before walking in front of a bus......
I agree, if I was speeding, however if I am doing the speed limit and some dimwit with their ipod on walks out in front of my car and I hit the brakes but still injure them, then they deserve it for being too thick to look. The road is for vehicles, we pay registration, road user charges, petrol etc etc so we can drive our vehicles on them, if pedestrians want equal rights on the roads then best they start paying some registration or something.

[Robert Taylor]

No 7. Only if you remove the current rates system first.

NZ is really good at piling tax after tax after tax on a numerically declining demographic.

The rest of it is pretty good, except you left out sterilising patched gang members.

Of course, which is a tax upon a tax anyway. There are many forms of ''sterilisation'' btw.

[James Deuce]

Sounds like Darwinism to me, if you're too stupid to look before walking in front of a bus......
I agree, if I was speeding, however if I am doing the speed limit and some dimwit with their ipod on walks out in front of my car and I hit the brakes but still injure them, then they deserve it for being too thick to look. The road is for vehicles, we pay registration, road user charges, petrol etc etc so we can drive our vehicles on them, if pedestrians want equal rights on the roads then best they start paying some registration or something.

Actually, it was really horrible to watch. People fly a long way when buses hit them and when they don't get up and the heap on the road is the wrong shape to be a person you don't forget it. I understand what you are saying, but I don't agree with it, because I could easily do it. I did do it in France. Look right, left, right doesn't work very well in a country where they drive on the right.

[Robert Taylor]

OHH NO --I agree with more of RT's ideas than I disagree with.

Would you like to attend my right wing karioke night?

[Robert Taylor]

I dont know if I'd go that far, but I'd defintly be keen to see the power companies and Telecom nationalised.


RT for Presidente?

10) People that ''dont look right'' are out of here.

[Robert Taylor]

Any one of these would do for me:

- Introducing moral and ethics education into schools from early years up to pre-university.
- Stimulate economic activity by lowering the tax rate for the lowest 2 tax brackets.
- Tax exempt for businesses oriented to advanced research & development (technology industry) and move NZ away from menial jobs such as Fisher & Paykel.
- Non-racial based democracy, including ruling out Maori party and Maori-favouring policies, preventing race-based reactionary policies (such as NZ First's initiated ideas), and viewing New Zealand as New Zealand (not a collection of 20-100 year immigrants). Nationalism should be assessed by looking forward, measured by how much contribution to the nation (tax) you give and where you really want to live, not where you are from or whether you are moving to Australia.
- Full length tunnel for Mt. Albert
- Outlawing Green party.

Some great ideas except the Mt Albert arterial route should still be above ground. It demolishes in excess of 100 Labour voting households.

[Trudes]

Actually, it was really horrible to watch. People fly a long way when buses hit them and when they don't get up and the heap on the road is the wrong shape to be a person you don't forget it. I understand what you are saying, but I don't agree with it, because I could easily do it. I did do it in France. Look right, left, right doesn't work very well in a country where they drive on the right.

Absolutely, but is that the car/bus/motorcyclists fault? That is what this is about. Do I deserve to go to jail for someone walking out in front of my car when I'm doing the speed limit, eyes on the road, hands on the steering wheel and minding my own business? That's what the point is.

[short-circuit]

EXACTLY. Also:

1) Reinstate an Air Strike Force, order Raptors for the job.

2) Make available in prisons do it yourself suicide kits

3) Outlaw the Labour, Green and all other left wing parties.

4) Compulsory military training for ALL school leavers

5) Boy racers also to attend boot camps to firmly knock the cockiness out of them.

6) Property owners over 40 years of age with a proven track record in business only eligible for the vote.

7) Introduce poll tax, a more fair and equitable system for councils

8) Bring back import licensiong and ban the importation of all low quality products.

9) Burn Helen Clark at the stake in a publicly televised ceremony for all the damage she ( it? ) has done.

Am I joking or am I serious?

Who cares...you're a cock

[Genestho]

Who cares...you're a cock

That particular policy doesn't get my vote.
The ignore policy does though!

[James Deuce]

Absolutely, but is that the car/bus/motorcyclists fault? That is what this is about. Do I deserve to go to jail for someone walking out in front of my car when I'm doing the speed limit, eyes on the road, hands on the steering wheel and minding my own business? That's what the point is.

The point is that once Kiwis get in or on a vehicle they don't really care about other people. It's why our road toll continues to rise. It's difficult to explain without raising hackles, but once I had kids, my disrespect for other people, and my inability to tolerate their mistakes diminished fairly rapidly.

The world's a cruel place. We don't have to be cruel as well.

[Marmoot]

Some great ideas except the Mt Albert arterial route should still be above ground. It demolishes in excess of 100 Labour voting households.

Nothing is better than an opportunity to convert 100 reds into blues.
Everyone likes blues.

[Marmoot]

Teachers have the sense to address those sort of issues at every opportunity (as should, more particularly, decent parents).

Two issues:
1. There should be a continuity and consistency between what is taught at home and at school. Morality is a universal constant and thus provides a good basics in ensuring an acceptable standard of behavior in society.
2. Currently teachers do not have the needed authority to instill morality, unless they are willing to risk being sued by vegan tree hugging parnellian parents.

[Brownstoo]

Something relating to equality and removing all this money for maoris (or anyone else who gets privileges based on race) bulshit.
If not that then making it a lot harder to get benefits.
Or someone who just the PC brigade to fuck off.

Failing that I'll just vote act coz rodney hide wears a yellow suit sometimes.

[AD345]

What policy would be certain to get my vote?

One that kept 90% of the previous posters far far away from any policy influencing positions.


I do admit to proper laugh-out-loud at some of the statements, with two gems in particular being worthy of nomination to some sort of hall of fame...

Morality is a universal constant

We all have equal choices

Keep on truckin