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Flyingkiwi9

Mark Dye is the start of the end for ZB. The guy is the typical idiot the media is filled with today.
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June 16, 2016 2:03pm
rangitoto

Blazeofshite wrote: Hey, Cap’n, in fact falling power prices after decades of restructuring going back to Max Bradford is an indicator of current economic malaise,

Nice fail. Growth of over the last quarter was 0.7 %. Not bad given the low diary price.
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June 16, 2016 2:06pm
blazeoflight

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
National showing its distaste for democracy by vetoing parental leave bill.

Fuck kids and fuck women!

And ignore all the economic evidence that points to major returns from enabling women to care for their children rather than racing back to work.
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June 16, 2016 2:09pm
blazeoflight

I’ll note that in my diary, rangi, and point out that considering the contribution from immigration and the CHCH rebuild, I’m sorry, it’s not a success story.

And is a separate debate from the success or otherwise of the privatisation programme of power companies.
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June 16, 2016 2:10pm
starboard

“Fuck kids and fuck women!”

You kiss ya mama with that potty mouth Blaze ?
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June 16, 2016 2:11pm
Nigel Kearney

O Canada

It’s ‘Blame Canada’ and always will be now unless they change the whole song.
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June 16, 2016 2:13pm
rangitoto

Blaze. CHC rebuild has little to do with the current growth. Auckland has the most major construction projects ever underway (including the lefties favourite Sky City convention job 😉 ) with more to start.
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June 16, 2016 2:20pm
rangitoto

“contribution from immigration”

I guess all those immigrants are queuing up to come to NZ to get their cut of the malaise.
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June 16, 2016 2:28pm
blazeoflight

Meanwhile, Bill English tells us how well the country is doing so we can afford to spend 3B per year on tax cuts, 20B on our innocuous military, but not 300m on ensuring children get an even break.

Rangi

No, the rebuild is still significant, but waning, and construction and immigration are not long term economic strategies. In fact, given the immigration levels, construction is still a long way from meeting demand.

And immigration world wide is almost entirely about people leaving poorer countries to go to richer ones, and we are not in any way the most popular destination.

What does give us cause to celebrate is that this government, through the its misplaced budget parsimony, has proven we have a resilient economy, but there is no joy in seeing resilience as an economic strategy. That’s just Presbyterianism taken too far.
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June 16, 2016 2:35pm
starboard

Blaze, the budget just increased spending for maori only to $300 000 000..that’s a lot of coin for the brown vote. Take your pick. $$ for the brown special people or $$ for kids..you cant have everything.
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June 16, 2016 2:38pm
blazeoflight

Where’s Paula Bennett skulking today?
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June 16, 2016 2:38pm
blazeoflight

@starboard

I disagree. It’s only the right wing who can’t walk and chew gum.

23B goes a long way towards any wish list I may have.
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June 16, 2016 2:40pm
Stars And Stripes

Blaze- on your next trip to Venezuela please send us some photos as I’m sure the folks on Kiwiblog would like to see leftist policies in action so we can get a real feel for what you are talking about.
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June 16, 2016 2:46pm
rangitoto

Paula is at Mystery Creek for the field days. A lot more productive than toying with the looney opposition.
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June 16, 2016 2:55pm
blazeoflight

From NZ Statistics:

Over the March 2016 year, RGNDI per capita increased 0.3 percent compared with the December 2015 year. This shows that New Zealand’s real purchasing power increased more than New Zealand’s population.

Just, and is a figure carefully plucked out to keep the minister happy.

Is this really our brighter future?

@Stars and Stripes

I think Germany is a better example. Have you ever checked out their social spending programmes?
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June 16, 2016 2:55pm
starboard

well one things for sure Blaze..liarbor/greens wont be running the country anytime soon..and that’s a fact.
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June 16, 2016 3:04pm
mikenmild

rangitoto
Does the entire government go to the field days?
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June 16, 2016 3:16pm
Captain Mainwaring

“Where’s Paula Bennett skulking today?”

Blazeofshite, where’s the teletubby been skulking for the last two weeks?
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June 16, 2016 3:17pm
starboard

mm

Why do you ask so many questions?
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June 16, 2016 3:20pm
James Stephenson

I think Germany is a better example. Have you ever checked out their social spending programmes?

Wouldn’t be quite the same if they had their own currency. Their industry benefits from a EUR exchange rate that’s artificially low while Greece, Spain, Italy etc suck up the pain of it being too high for them.

If the EU really was a country, Germany would be actually paying money to those regions, rather than smugly forcing them into austerity to repay “loans”.
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June 16, 2016 3:24pm
mikenmild

I’m curious about the world, starboard.
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June 16, 2016 3:24pm
Stars And Stripes

Blaze “I think Germany is a better example. Have you ever checked out their social spending programmes?”

Yes I have and the other thing I know is that with another million odd bludgers just turned up calling themselves refugees very soon Germany will be compared to Venezuela.
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June 16, 2016 3:26pm
Keeping Stock

From Twitter:

Sue Moroney
‏@suemoroney
Bill English struggling to defend Paula Bennett about her smear campaign against Te Puea Marae leaders because #SheHasForm

Goodness me. Surely that’s not the same Sue Moroney who took a photo of a private citizen’s beach house and published it on Twitter with disparaging remarks about his wealth, just because he was flying a flag she didn’t like.

Is it any wonder that National MP’s long to have Moroney stand against them in an electorate, because an increase to their majority is all but assured? She really is a nasty piece of work, and seems totally unaware of the hypocrisy of her remarks.
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June 16, 2016 3:43pm
mikenmild

Here’s a good one:

A family argument over whether the Earth is flat or round became so heated that one of the participants threw a propane cylinder onto a campfire, prompting an intervention by firefighters. The dispute over a question most considered resolved centuries ago boiled over around 10:30 p.m. Monday at St. Lawrence Park in Brockville, Ont. Police said a 56-year-old Brockville man was at a campsite with his son and his son’s girlfriend when the woman began insisting that the Earth is flat. The older man insisted the Earth is round. It’s not clear if anyone at the campfire put forth the argument that the Earth’s equatorial bulge makes it not perfectly round, but instead a shape known as an oblate spheroid. Nevertheless, police said the man became so enraged he began throwing objects into the campfire, including a propane cylinder. Brockville firefighters were called to put out the campfire. By the time police arrived at the scene, the man had left. Brockville police are looking for the man and say they expect to charge him with mischief.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/flat-earth-debate-leads-to-fire-police-call-1.3634692
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June 16, 2016 3:49pm
rangitoto

“Does the entire government go to the field days?”

I suspect Greebore would be too scared to show their faces at field days. I recall when I went to the Kumeu show earlier this year, the Nats and NZ first had stands but no sign of Greebore.
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June 16, 2016 4:24pm
sooty

That idiot Byrce Edwards at the Herald has been having a wet dream! He wants to increase refuges to 60,000! Where are they going to live? Isnt there a houseing crisis!
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June 16, 2016 4:32pm
stigie

Who’s this prick that’s going wah wah wah the kids and their mothers need more money….?

The National Government has just increased money to these beneficiaries…the first time in 43 fucking years..?

Where the fuck do we get these grizzling parasites, just as well there’s only a small amount of them !~
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June 16, 2016 4:38pm
deadrightkev

rangitoto

National should be embarrasssed to go to the field days. I wouldn’t vote for National in a million years. They have continued on with everything socialist Labour dumped on them and moved NZ even further into the Marxist drain called the UN.

To make matters even more dire the National party leader and prime minister Mr John Key wants to bring in even more lifestyle nomads from Syria. It is a huge risk that many will harbor ISIS sympathies against NZ citizens in the future.

Many Kiwis are blind and utterly dumb when it comes to the smiling Mr John Key.
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June 16, 2016 4:39pm
Keeping Stock

Why shouldn’t Ministers attend FieldDays mikenmild? It is one of the biggest agricultural gatherings in the world, and like it or not, the primary production sector is still hugely important to our economy. There’s plenty of overseas interest as well, including a delegation from the Chilean government attending. Paula Bennett was there today in her ministerial capacity to discuss Climate Change issues.

And look; they’re merely following the example of their predecessors, although I suspect National Minister get a far better reception at Mystery Creek than Helen Clark ever did…

Helen Clark

15 June, 2005
National Agricultural Fieldays, Mystery Creek

Thank you for inviting me once again to open the 2005 National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek. We celebrate the Fieldays as a major event on the rural calendar, and they attract the interest of big numbers of urban people too.

The Queen opened the very first Fieldays, at Te Rapa in 1968. Her presence helped attract a large attendance – sufficient to ensure that the event would be an annual success. That first year, the Fieldays raised enough money to put a deposit on Mystery Creek.

Sadly this will be the first Fieldays not attended by one of its founders, Sir Don Llewellyn, who passed away this year at age 84. Sir Don was also the founding Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University. He made an outstanding contribution to education, to agriculture, and to the Waikato – his adopted home. The Fieldays grew from Sir Don’s push for more contact between the university, the community, and the neighbouring agricultural research institute at Ruakura.

The National Agricultural Fieldays is now the largest show of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, with over 1000 exhibitors spread over 100 hectares, and attracting over 130,000 people. Sales during the four days of last year’s Fieldays totalled $131 million. The fieldays are a significant economic event in their own right, and give a high profile to the Waikato.

The focus of this year’s Fieldays is ‘People on the Farms – Managing Your Workplace’. The aim is to provide farmers with more information about best practice in employing labour, in promoting health and safety, and upskilling.

This fits well with our government’s work with industry to boost labour productivity, skills training, health and safety at work, and work-life balance. The agricultural industries are playing their part in tackling these issues.

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/national-agricultural-fieldays-mystery-creek
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June 16, 2016 4:40pm
mikenmild

Just didn’t think it would be such a focus for the Minister of Social Development, KS. Was she leading a flying squad to help homeless farmers?
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June 16, 2016 4:43pm
stigie

@Milky
A field day is also a place where you could catch up with Johnboy and argue about the local rugby ole chap..?
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June 16, 2016 4:47pm
Happychappy

@mikemild
It’s like you having pillow talk with Andrew
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June 16, 2016 4:51pm
rangitoto

Johnboy would be too busy chasing after the alpacas.
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June 16, 2016 4:51pm
Griff

Mikey Paula is not minster for social development.
That’s Anne Tolley
Paula is Minister for Climate Change Issues, Minister for Social Housing, and Minister of State Services.
Climate change is very much an issue for the ag sector.
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June 16, 2016 4:56pm
mikenmild

Okay, I stand corrected. I had never connected her with anything agricultural.
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June 16, 2016 5:02pm
mikenmild

I see Gerry Brownlee is up to his favourite gimmick – bagging Treasury advice – on this occasion because they’re not politicians:

they don’t put their name on a ballot paper, they don’t stand on street corners talking to constituents

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/81136407/cost-blowout-for-navy-frigate-upgrade-but-its-capability-were-going-to-get–gerry-brownlee
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June 16, 2016 5:04pm
Longknives

Don’t worry Mikey it’s certainly not the first time you have spouted off and been completely wrong!
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June 16, 2016 5:07pm
starboard

“Climate change”

*chortle..snigger *
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June 16, 2016 5:14pm
Keeping Stock

Quite so Longknives. The post of mine that mikenmild was criticising even included the words “Paula Bennett was there today in her ministerial capacity to discuss Climate Change issues.”

Still; it’s been a long day at the coal-face for mikenmild, balancing his work requirements with posting on Kiwiblog. We all know that men can’t multi-task, so we probably shouldn’t be so tough on him. Maybe, like Julian Savea, he needs some time away from Kiwiblog to get his mind right 😀
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June 16, 2016 5:15pm
Griff

New Zealand’s economic growth driven almost exclusively by rising population
New Zealand’s economic growth is barely keeping up with the speed at which the population is growing, amid a slowdown in the primary sector.

Official figures released on Thursday showed gross domestic product rose by 0.7 per cent in the first three months of the year, bringing annual growth to 2.8 per cent.

But while the construction industry is expanding at speed, economists said almost all of the growth was being driven by population growth, currently at a 40 year high, boosted by record immigration.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/81128451/strong-construction-offsets-weak-primary-sector-to-boost-growth
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June 16, 2016 6:03pm
Reid

New Zealand’s economic growth driven almost exclusively by rising population

Yes.

As I’ve told you all repeatedly, when Key came into power, with the GFC just starting to bite, he opened the Chinese floodgates precisely in order to counter the contraction he could see was coming.

As I’ve told you all, for years.

Which would have been fine, except he didn’t ask us if we wanted the face of our country changed.

But most of you apart from being ignorant with respect to how politics works, are also two legs bad four legs good thinkers.

In other words, your minds aren’t capable of holding two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time and continuing to function.

So most of you took into your bosum the hallucination Key is tewwific and cannot possibly do wrong, esp not a major thing like that, because he’s such a nice man. Awwwwwwwwwww.

And most of you, despite all the evidence you daily decry about how the media is a bunch of biased superficial brain-dead morons, still, to this day, await the media to reveal what your profound ignorance judges to be “the truth” and until it does, despite your daily decries, most of you won’t accept this is precisely exactly indubitably in fact what Key did.

I feel sorry for you because when you die, you’ll see precisely how the world works, what’s been happening on your watch, and you’ll then, but only then, realise you’ve lived your entire life in profound and utter ignorance, that everything you thought was true was in fact false.

I also hold you in contempt, because the truth is out there, a mere click away, but most of you won’t ever even bother dancing around it, let alone plunging in, no holds-barred. Former generations had to fight for the stuff you people have at your fingertips. And you still refuse to arouse yourselves.

This is why BTW, God gave you a mind and put you in a place where you had the tools at your disposal to use it and BTW, He expects you to use it and if you don’t, you answer to Him.
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June 16, 2016 6:20pm
mikenmild

Keeping Stock
You’re getting a bit confused.
Your post about Paula Bennett was on the other thread. I was responding to rangitoto’s comment.
But I guess most Kiwibloggers will agree that Paula Bennett going to the field days to discuss climate change is worthwhile.
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June 16, 2016 6:42pm
blazeoflight

@Reid

You are wrong, and I mean no offence in informing you of this.

Here’s the thing for your theory: immigration has operated within a bipartisan consensus since before the Clark government. But if anyone opened the gates, it was the Clark government; Key’s lot just went with the flow (pun intended).

The biggest negative of our economic growth figures the almost non-existent per capita income growth: 0.3% over the last twelve months, according to NZStats.

Now, English makes great play of how we are doing better than our peer countries, the OECD group of advanced economies.

First, we are already one of the poorest nations in that group, and heading lower all the time under this government. English conveniently omits this telling fact.

Second, those OECD countries with tiny growth are almost exclusively ruled by conservative governments that see austerity as a virtue, demonstrating a sound lack of understanding of Keyne’s Paradox of Thrift. If those same countries had, when their central banks lowered interest rates to almost their lower limit, had soaked up the excess savings of segments of their own economies and the emerging markets, economic growth could have bubbled along quite nicely on money borrowed at almost zero real interest rates.

In other words, low growth is these days almost entirely a government construct: it is a feature, not a bug, of government policy.

The dairy boom and the rebuild obscured the truth of the matter: our class riven government does not want high economic growth. It suits them just fine to keep us poorer rather than richer, even though we can double our debt/GDP level without compromising fiscal responsibility or our credit rating.

What most advanced economies need is a dose of injected cash to kick their economies into gear until sufficient economic opportunities pop up to enable the government to once more take a back step.

Remember, a government of a country with a sovereign currency can always service its debt obligations.
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June 16, 2016 6:55pm
Reid

if anyone opened the gates, it was the Clark government; Key’s lot just went with the flow

Of course Clark did it too, but in her term there was no cheap Chinese money available.

I cite as evidence for my analysis the fact during Clark’s term Akld’s face didn’t change, during Key’s term it did.

The biggest issue when you walk round Akld and notice the new faces is: none of them look particularly well educated, particularly salubrious, particularly valuable for a small country like ours. Most of them walk round with prams, new citizens, taking advantage of systems we built, they didn’t.

It appears Key just took anything with ability to source funds from the Bank of China.

That’s the shame of him, when we had the entire Chinese population to choose from, why did he choose the dregs, on our behalf, without asking us?

Remember, a government of a country with a sovereign currency can always service its debt obligations.

They need a real not fiat as you clearly know blaze.

I saw a great chart the other day I posted here, sorry can’t find it, showing the budget deficit in the US before and after leaving the gold std.
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June 16, 2016 7:25pm
mikenmild

none of them look particularly well educated, particularly salubrious, particularly valuable for a small country like ours

Could be worse, Reid – what if they were Jews?
But I agree, those Chinese do look a bit sinister, don’t they?
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June 16, 2016 7:33pm
blazeoflight

@Reid

Crap again, sorry.

The faces of Auckland changed drastically under Clark. I lived in Mt Albert for her entire reign and that Main Street changed dramatically.

But look, you are basing your argument against immigration on racism. My concern is that the immigrants are not contributing to economic growth other than their being here, and we have to share a shrinking pool (currently) of export earnings with them.

If you are an advocate for hard money, then you are crazy. Look, the US government deficit has been a boon to both that country – it can always print the money for its debt – and the rest of the world. Those deficits supported our surpluses!

How do explain that in the modern economy, US debt is cheaper than ever while its level of debt is higher than ever? Germany is now charging for the privilege of you lending its government your money [edit: 10 yr bonds].

Why would you want permanently reduced incomes to stay fixed to gold? Instead of the joy of savings being redistributed globally to those who need them, without having to dig big holes in the ground?
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June 16, 2016 7:41pm
Griff

My concern is that the immigrants are not contributing to economic growth other than their being here, and we have to share a shrinking pool (currently) of export earnings with them.

Add the increasing burden of infrastructure that we need to fund to support the growing population and we are actually going backwards . The effect of the migrants not only reduce the share of the export earnings each citizen benefits from it also suppresses the wages of existing population so we who are already here are losing out.
I believe the main motivation for those in power is to keep the entitlements of the boomer generation going for as long as possible at a cost to the younger generations future prospect and life style .
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June 16, 2016 7:50pm
blazeoflight

@Griff

I don’t know if that is a conscious motivation, but, for sure, self interest explains a lot about this government.

Sadly, as I have said before, they prove you can fool enough of the people enough of the time to cause long term damage to this country’s economic prospects.

It’s the young that will suffer (excluding the likes of spoilt brat Max Key).
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June 16, 2016 8:02pm
Reid

you are basing your argument against immigration on racism.

No I’m not, I’m basing it on the fact Key never asked us if that’s what we wanted. Not sure how many times I have to repeat this before it sinks in. Clearly, even though this is the same point I’ve been making in every single post on this issue for many years, I haven’t said it often enough.

If you are an advocate for hard money, then you are crazy. Look, the US government deficit has been a boon to both that country – it can always print the money for its debt – and the rest of the world. Those deficits supported our surpluses!

How do explain that in the modern economy, US debt is cheaper than ever while its level of debt is higher than ever?

It lasts as long as the world tolerates vapour as the reserve blaze, then it dis-integrates.

China and the other BRICS are going to introduce a gold backed reserve very shortly indeed, and you watch my friend, as the US disappears into the sunset. That’s what real money vs fiat does.
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June 16, 2016 8:21pm
Viking2

National govt.’s have always used immigration to ramp up the GDP.
They have no idea how to do anything else. Tourism is just another short from of immigration.

One of the driving forces of our low productivity and falling level of GDP per capita is the Reserve bank Act.

That targets something we have no control over and something which is a symptom of our malaise rather than a cause.

What the Act should be about is using monetary policy to increase the wealth of NZer’s.

Change the ACT and you change the entire behavoir of our system.

Its actually really simple, as most things are.
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June 16, 2016 9:07pm
paul scott

Reid [ 8.21 ] quote @”China and the other BRICS are going to introduce a gold backed reserve very shortly indeed, and you watch my friend, as the US disappears into the sunset. That’s what real money vs fiat does.””

Yes it would seem so. USA Obama raised national debt from 11 trillion to 20 trillion. [ Not sure if thats gross or net debt ]
but around $US60,000 per individual, or say $250,000 per family of four.
They say a lot of this debt is internal, however that helps.
We seem in the West to live in a make believe world .
As far as I know NZ is borrowing money as though it were going out of fashion, as Reid suggests it is. $NZ 60 billion debt. Thats maybe $16,000 per individual.
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June 17, 2016 12:42am
Left Right and Centre

general zb – did someone say Mark Dye ? I didn’t know his name – but yeah – what a fuckin girly-boy sounding queer fella. You listen to him and matron McIvor who is about as much fun as waiting for your luggage to appear – and then you think, ok – who is out there that they’ve got these two really cool clowns blabbing the PC MSM line for ? Women – dumb women housewives and all the dreggs of society. I find them really tough to take – afternoons are dead between them and Mau / Jackson.

I thought Danny Watson was hit and miss but sheesh – they are just shit. And anyway – too many adverts and tie-ins and other bullshit. Mark Dye is only there to sell shit – dressed up as ‘having an expert on for a nice chat’. We’re going to catch up with our travel expert. Sell !! Sell !! Sell !!. You know who he is ? Mary Lambie with a penis.

This was on radio news – I shit you not, only in NZ – population SFA. Geese – shitting on a sports field in Dunedin. Good to know. If they can’t sort it out, they’ll have to ‘cull them’ (fubar them). Followed by SAFE protest – petitions, a march – save the fuckin geese week – give a little – geese rescue adopted townie parents on seven shit ‘out kids just left for uni to study gender differences and ecology, and these little geese our like our new children – filled the void. We cuddle them all the time, and they sleep in our bed. And take them for drives – no need for a horn – we just stick a finger up their jacksie and they honk like hell at traffic shafting us on a green arrow . . .

general tv – don’t even have the ads muted. Can still see nothing but fast food and nanny messages. Don’t drive when you’re tired. Really, fuckwits ? I like a challenge – I wait until my eyes are screaming and then hit the road for parallel parking practice in tight spaces. Fuckin idiots. Ads are for morons. If you’ve got a licence and read the road code – oh, but – you need top-up reminders – *moron*.

general walking – bought a $3 pedometer – says I’ve walked 1 300 metres around the house tonight. Cool. Yes for $3 it’s a total piece of shit and probably measuring Chinese calinchian thumb grooves but what the hell. $3.

general motorway cops – can you believe the cop pulls over some weird old foreign bloke in Auckland on a trip from Tauranga to Whangerei – dickhead has his radio turned right up. Cop has to ask him three times to turn it down – just gets ignored by the deaf fart. Not even listening to the cop. How many like that shithead on the road – hazard a guess ? Get it – ‘hazard’ a guess ? Nice Jeep – retarded noddy in a reasonably cool vehicle.

more general tv – ‘You Can’t Get The Staff’ – it’s a British Sitcom that Steve Coogan could not hope to better. Some polo playing horsey loving twat – get the name . . . Aurora. Wasn’t that a ferry that sank in Wellington ? Fuck me – Aurora – too much. She trials Wendy – mother of two – to help look after all her horsey shit – which requires someone devoting their entire place on earth to. Wendy – Wendy had the worst possible thick glasses – the worst mouth of teeth – it’s like she won an ugly contest to appear on the programme. Blind date nightmare. Excuse me, I’ve just got to run away screaming. She wasn’t obese – I’ll give her 1 out of 10. She was comically awful looking – how did they manage that ? You couldn’t give her the job – some total ugly twerp knobhead without the first idea how to improve herself – no, no, no. I had to turn that shit off and live in denial that any of those people actually exist – living and breathing. It just goes to show you – some men will stick it anywhere, eh ? Two children !!
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June 17, 2016 3:20am
Viking2

Well, well, surprise, surprise.

Didn’t take the new Muslim Mayor of London long to start the censorship going.

Starting next month, Transport for London will not allow ads that cause pressure to conform to “unrealistic or unhealthy body shape,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in a statement.

“As the father of two teenage girls, I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies,” Khan said. “It is high time it came to an end.”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11656551
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June 17, 2016 7:16am
alex Masterley

Heh.
At the mayoral forum. Cat woman tried to get in. But failed.
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