Glad about that Dime. LOL

“the point, i think, is that the government wants people to have enough money to take care of the kids”

Stephen – working hard seems to be a good option; and spending wisely.
I am flabbergasted when so much is made of not having enough money to feed the kids when I see what people put into their shopping trolleys.
Unfortunately we have had a decade of ‘borrow-to-live’ mentality. Have-everything-now or I’ll feel deprived attitude.
Until we individually can look ourselves in the mirror and say “I have managed my own life well” can we legitimately look elsewhere for other events to blame.
(Well, that’s my personal take on the situation.)

heres another point.. why should those that choose to underwhelm in life, have kids young without giving any thought to how they will pay for them, be rewarded?

as opposed to the couple that work hard and try to get a start in life, so they will be able to provide for kids in the future.. no help for them! infact, penalise them!

rich pricks

If anyone had had any insight, our cars would all be run on LPG until electric ones and solar power windmills would have backed up the dams.

Instead a farming country has ridiculously high prices for the things it produces and exports, cheese, vegetables.

And instead of using tourism wisely, it quickly sold the country to others.

China: people cannot own land, only lease it.

Most of the vegetables are sold on the street.

No foreigner can truly be a Chinese citizen, so all can be removed if need be.

China will always remain Chinese.

Chinese will always remain Chinese.

The economy is large enough to survive the current economic crisis.

I got a good salary here and plenty of cash left over at the end of the month.

New Zealand never had anything to save it.

The leaders should have had enough forsight to look far into the future, instead of just thinking about the next term.

MMP sucks.

China is considered an evil dictatorship, but their leaders think long-term. At least they get things done and the country is not ravaged with stupid taxing laws and laws that tax like a rat with fleas.

Hang on to your democracy until the ship sinks.

I hope that was a tongue-in-cheek question, Dime.

Just in case it wasn’t; give me one good reason, dime, why anyone without children should be required to support those who do by paying greater taxes. That doesn’t seem fair.

Everyone should be able to use their own money for whatever cause they choose, over and above the necessary taxes for the core business of government. If he had more money, Brian may want to contribute to all sorts of ‘good causes’. Who are we to direct where his potential charity might go.

Dyann
Mother of 4 people

Exactly, there are a large number of people who will vote for the greens based on their environmental policy and have given no thought to the social implications (ie anti smacking, food police etc). What’s more, there has been absolutely no economic fall-out from the emissions trading scheme. Give this policy another 3 years to sink in and start having an effect on everyones net income we may well see the green party absent themselves from our political landscape.

Now could this be the same RBNZ Governor who told us for the past 5 years that we needed high interest rates to choke of high inflation

And we have………………………………….wait for it HIGH INFLATION.

Do these turkeys know what the hell they are up to or do they make it up on the hoof.

One finds it very very difficult to have confidence in people who say one thing one minute and then the opposite the next minute

And then they wonder why they have no credibility

October 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
“Labour is making a habit of leaving office with economic problems for the new Government.”

“Tempting to leave them in there to sink once and for all.”

The more we learn, the more I dislike the possibility that the Nats will get into government only to face an impossible task, with the Media and the Heleban in the role of “HM loyal opposition” giving them hell whatever they do, and succeeding in shifting all the blame from Labour 1999-2008 onto National 1990-1999 and National 2008-2011. It is a saying that the victors write the history. The Left all over the world have won the battle for “the institutions” so that they get to write the histories whatever happens, heck, they get to write it AS IT HAPPENS. The “Right” barely even fired a shot in THAT war.

Even so, I am inclined to agree with you, Siobhan, that Labour might actually sink for a long time if THEY cling to power now, especially if the nutty Greens dictate economic policy as their price for coalition support.

Tempting to leave them in there to sink once and for all.

Because that NEVER gets old.