She hissed and he missed
She screamed and he dreamed
She aimed and he feigned
She cursed and he burst

and to quote Bill English yesterday with amendments for EB’s

Can we now sum up the Minister’s and Labour’s position on “Exclusive Brethren” in the following way:
He said they could not and they would not,
Then he said they cannot and they shall not,
Then he said they could and they would,
And now they might when it is right,
And why does he not listen to those New Zealanders who are telling him he is wrong and he is gone, and his Labour colleagues who are saying that he is tired and should be fired?

be dazzled by the sparkling wit/repartee of the ratbiter..!

phil(whoar.co.nz)

In terms of what you (plural) don’t realize, you’re talking the tip of the iceberg..

and..dunno..i suggest checking the website..emailing them..?

let us know how you get on.

phil(whoar.co.nz)

two of our ‘voices of reason’..

one after the other..

(heh-eh..!..)

cold-war-rhetoric-alert..!

phil(whoar.co.nz)

Except that its not your $10, its other people’s money. One day socialists will realize that stealing from people pisses them off, and they either stop producing or head for more friendlier climes. When they do this, health services are broken. Press on tho fuckwit. Power is of course your real obsession, and with socialists, will always take priority over the future welfare of NZers.

“..if this bunch of gravy sucking pigs lot are socialists, I think it is time to get the term redefined in the Oxford English..”

(heh-heh..!..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)

and that goff out-performs’ cullen..(!)

i watch/live-comment every questiontime..

and tho’ i disagree with much cullen says..

if you want (recent) proof cullen is still the ‘master’..

and goff still his apprentice..

go and watch yesterdays’ questiontime..

phil(whoar.co.nz)

But it need not be an either/or argument.
It is possible to increase efficiency for example in the Health Service. One of the biggest drains on any business is the training of new staff, ergo it makes sense to retain old fully trained staff by incentivising them through better wages and conditions.
One of the mantras trotted out by the present lot is that in order for tax cuts to happen, some service or other must suffer. Yet they make services suffer themselves with their cavalier attitude to the greatest of all resources the workers. If this is not the case, why do we have threatened strikes by Doctors, Teachers and Hospital workers for example? If our tax dollars are being so usefully employed, why did they cut funding to Plunkett last year? Or to bring it down a peg or two, When that lady died last year because she couldn’t pay her electricity bill why was her husband obliged to be taking industrial action because he was working for subsistence wages?
After eight years of ’socialist’ government. And a surplus of billions in the election chest. And what will they spend it on? Television Adverts telling us how lucky we are to have them!

If this bunch of gravy sucking pigs lot are socialists, I think it is time to get the term redefined in the Oxford English.

you aren’t believing/swallowing nationals’ chimera of tax cuts..and increases in spending..?..are you..?

and listen..by the second half of next year there could be a few more housing/economic/environmental issues..

that will be causing far more consternation..that the whys and wherefores of a paltry $10 a week tax cut..

phil(whoar.co.nz)

not at the expense of services I don’t certainly.

Fair enough. But funding provided and value delivered are not directly co-related. If they were, the massive increase in health funding would have delivered better services. They haven’t. Yet labour supporters always moan on about how any spending decrease would decrease services. Utter rubbish.

Even from a selfish point of view that $10 is not going to be much use to me if I get ill

I would have thought that cyanide pills cost less than $10 each.

I was thinking more of reductions in Capital works for some other areas of Govt funding that could be deferred to keep the public more on side.

I don’t need the $10.00 a week but a lot of our core voters badly need it.