Elections are coming up. What are we thinking?

[mada]

Yup it's pretty funny.
You should look in a mirror...

[Woodman]

is that all you're scared of. Under an R.B.E. you would keep everything you currently have as there is no redistribution of anything other than human effort moving forwards. So you'll be safe as bro.

But what will the tooth fairy leave under kids pillows?

[yokel]

Same goes for educated idiots

[Ocean1]

If you reckon there's an inverse relationship between the quantity of millionaires in a country and the prevalence of squalor and unemployment then you're kidding yourself.

Not even sure if you understand what you have written

Sounds good when you read it out aloud though

Would have agreed with you 20 years ago

Like ...the USA.....with the largest collection of wealth in the fewest hands since the 1890's

^^^

Don't expect a proper response that refutes those stats... other than "people don't know how lucky they are" "socialists" "want to take all my property" "everyone but me = bludger"

You could always prove me wrong and refute or debate the data put up.

Most of the time all I see in response to evidence being put up is just deflections and self-erections.

Right. “Nations by unemployment”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...mployment_rate

Every nation with unemployment over 20%:

Comoros, East Timor, Sudan, Serbia, Gabon, Federated States of Micronesia, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Dominica, Nauru, Grenada, Mayotte (France), South Africa, Spain , Greece, Macedonia, Mali, Mauritania, Marshall Islands, Afghanistan, Yemen, Gaza Strip (Palestine), Kiribati, Swaziland, Kenya, Lesotho, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Nepal, Senegal, American Samoa, Namibia, Djibouti , Mozambique, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Zimbabwe.

Does that sound like a hotbed of millionaire driven depravity to you lot?

‘Cause it sounds mostly like a list of distinctly squalid places no self-respecting millionaire would be found within a thousand miles of to me.

Take bullshit like Socialist dictatorships like North Korea out of the pointy end of the unemployment stat’s and you’ve got countries like:

Guernsey (United Kingdom), Kuwait, Gibraltar (United Kingdom), Isle of Man, Singapore, Macau (China), Denmark, Liechtenstein, Brunei, Jersey (United Kingdom), Andorra, Malaysia, British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) and Switzerland.

Mostly places you couldn’t swing a fucking cat without smacking a dozen millionaires around the head, places where the locals wouldn't know what squalor was.

Bit like you lot. Perhaps it's time you revised your world view, 'cause I'd say you've been shown to be comprehensively wrong.

[PrincessBandit]

I haven't read the whole thread but as I was going to start one on the billboard vandalism that seems rampant at the moment, I decided to post in here rather than ending up with a thread merge.

Is anyone else flabbergasted by the wanton destruction being flaunted in this election? I am not surprised that there are people out there who feel driven to deface stuff - it's only another step along the tagging continuum. But honestly - in New Zealand - this widespread immaturity????
Are we really such a nation of neaderthals?

[Ocean1]

Are we really such a nation of neaderthals?

Wonder which colour posters the neaderthals have been targeting.

[Oscar]

So what?
I know rich people who are idiots, just as I know poor people that are nice.

However based on the assumption that, in general, it takes a few clues to make money (and/or to keep it), I'd say you will have to settle for being poor.

[yokel]

Right. “Nations by unemployment”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...mployment_rate

Every nation with unemployment over 20%:

Comoros, East Timor, Sudan, Serbia, Gabon, Federated States of Micronesia, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Dominica, Nauru, Grenada, Mayotte (France), South Africa, Spain , Greece, Macedonia, Mali, Mauritania, Marshall Islands, Afghanistan, Yemen, Gaza Strip (Palestine), Kiribati, Swaziland, Kenya, Lesotho, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Nepal, Senegal, American Samoa, Namibia, Djibouti , Mozambique, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Zimbabwe.

Does that sound like a hotbed of millionaire driven depravity to you lot?

‘Cause it sounds mostly like a list of distinctly squalid places no self-respecting millionaire would be found within a thousand miles to me.

Take bullshit like Socialist dictatorships like North Korea out of the pointy end of the unemployment stat’s and you’ve got countries like:

Guernsey (United Kingdom), Kuwait, Gibraltar (United Kingdom), Isle of Man, Singapore, Macau (China), Denmark, Liechtenstein, Brunei, Jersey (United Kingdom), Andorra, Malaysia, British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) and Switzerland.

Mostly places you couldn’t swing a fucking cat without smacking a dozen millionaires around the head, places the locals wouldn't know what squalor was.

Bit like you lot. Perhaps it's time you revised your world view, 'cause it's severely lacking in factual content.

We live in a global economy based on usury so all that don't mean jack shit.

[Oscar]

We live in a global economy based on usury so all that don't mean jack shit.

A brilliantly constructed riposte.
You set out your rebuttal with persuasive prose, well thought out arguments to the contrary and supporting facts...

...no, wait a minute – you're just another KB idiot.

Have you met Mashy and his gang, you'll do fine...

[mashman]

Right. “Nations by unemployment”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...mployment_rate

Every nation with unemployment over 20%:

Comoros, East Timor, Sudan, Serbia, Gabon, Federated States of Micronesia, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Dominica, Nauru, Grenada, Mayotte (France), South Africa, Spain , Greece, Macedonia, Mali, Mauritania, Marshall Islands, Afghanistan, Yemen, Gaza Strip (Palestine), Kiribati, Swaziland, Kenya, Lesotho, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Nepal, Senegal, American Samoa, Namibia, Djibouti , Mozambique, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Zimbabwe.

Does that sound like a hotbed of millionaire driven depravity to you lot?

‘Cause it sounds mostly like a list of distinctly squalid places no self-respecting millionaire would be found within a thousand miles to me.

Take bullshit like Socialist dictatorships like North Korea out of the pointy end of the unemployment stat’s and you’ve got countries like:

Guernsey (United Kingdom), Kuwait, Gibraltar (United Kingdom), Isle of Man, Singapore, Macau (China), Denmark, Liechtenstein, Brunei, Jersey (United Kingdom), Andorra, Malaysia, British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) and Switzerland.

Mostly places you couldn’t swing a fucking cat without smacking a dozen millionaires around the head, places the locals wouldn't know what squalor was.

Bit like you lot. Perhaps it's time you revised your world view, 'cause I'd say you've been shown to be comprehensively wrong.

The reason that most of those places are so fucked up is because they've been ripped apart by rich white bastards over the last century (minimum). Awesome correlation bro.

[Ocean1]

The reason that most of those places are so fucked up is because they've been ripped apart by rich white bastards over the last century (minimum). Awesome correlation bro.

Don't you get sick of being wrong so much?

The reason most of those places are so fucked up is that they aren't stable capitalist democracies.

Those same places are the only ones bucking the global trend towards higher income equity. You want to disagree with that too? Or have you had enough of being wrong for now?

Careful now, you might want to do some research.



Or not...

[oldrider]

But what will the tooth fairy leave under kids pillows?

Could be a good trade in old dentures perhaps!

[Shaun Harris]

This thread has been funnier than reading some of the bull shit those side car tossers type else where

[yokel]

Don't you get sick of being wrong so much?

The reason most of those places are so fucked up is that they aren't stable capitalist democracies.

Those same places are the only ones bucking the global trend towards higher income equity. You want to disagree with that too? Or have you had enough of being wrong for now?

Careful now, you might want to do some research.



Or not...

Dont you get sick of getting sand in your vagina?

[SPman]

The media in this country are heavy on the left really....

.

TVNZ have a video of an effigy burning and insinuated alongside the Prime Minister that Internet MANA were involved in the burning. -
Turns out that insinuation was a total fabrication

This latest fabrication joins a long list of lies and manipulations our right wing corporate media have so far vomited up to attack the left with – they include $15,000 book that never existed, a $100,000 bottle of wine that never existed, a $150,000 donation to Labour that never existed, sexist ‘man ban’ bullshit when National’s party list is dominated by men, Nazi rally claims and now effigy burning.

Isn’t it remarkable the double standard of the NZ media? Hone Harawira gets bullet holes through his electorate office, and not a whimper from our mainstream media pundits, some chanting and a bonfire and suddenly it’s the end of western civilisation as we know it.

and this is left leaning media?

Every nation with unemployment over 20%:

Add the USA to the list - the current employment rate is quoted as about 6.4% - but only because they keep jacking with how unemployment is measured to make the economy seem good. Using the method they used until the late 90's, the figure is estimated to be in the region of 24%!