Own Goal
One of the Standard authors whined:
Business New Zealand and other assorted tossers. Stop calling our country ‘New Zealand Inc’. This is our home. This is where we live our lives and raise our families. It’s not some profit-maximising engine for your shareholders.
Personally I think anyone who gets worked up over such trivialities need to relax more, but he or she is entitled to their view that anyone who refers to New Zealand Inc is a tosser.
The commenters then have a field day finding Phil Goff having used the term three times and Helen Clark four times, making them officially tossers according to that Standard author.
Hat Tip: Whale Oil
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Tags: Helen Clark, Phil Goff, The Standard
July 18th, 2009 at 9:37 am
How despicable referring to helen as a tosser given the constant rumours about her sexuality – the standard resembles a sewer these days
July 18th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Duh.
NZ Inc is a derivative of UK Plc (as used by the British Banks to describe the economic condition of the UK economy) that has been used historically by the National Bank in its economic assessment of NZ for the year.
No big deal unless you are a card carrying commie happy at spending tax payers cash on little red books bearing the image of alfred e neuman or uncle hulun.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:54 am
They are just bores at the Standard, bored, and contemplating a decade with no influence or relevance.
Boo Hoo, and Did Dums!
July 18th, 2009 at 10:06 am
I thought the Standard jumped the shark just after the election. They are now just an angry echo chamber.
Still the longer Labour let these cretins act as their attack blog the more Kiwi’s will turn from them.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Glute: Doesn’t it feel good to be able to say that ! Good times.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Frankly I think “NZ Inc” is right up there in cringe terms with the propensity of politicians to refer to “we Kiwis” and the like.
I blame the pollsters myself – eh David.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Clark & Goff were tossers way before they started using New Zealand Inc…
July 18th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Why waste time on the cesspool the Standard is? It deserves neither readership, nor commentary.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:23 am
What do these left-wing warthogs want to call the place? The People’s Republic of NZ? The Aotearoa Union of Socialist Retards?
It is broadly reasonable to borrow the term “Inc” when newspapers report NZ’s state accounts roughly in the style they they would those of a business, such as when the Minister of Finance releases budget details annually.
In fact it would be more appropriate than the lefties at the Standard think. In America the term Inc. describes limited-liability businesses. In New Zealand, however, “Inc” refers to incorporated charitable and other non-profit societies. Limited in NZ applies to incorporated businesses.
Thus the lefties should welcome Inc. It fits their goal of a non-profit socialist country-like co-op, economically stagnant, saddled with rising debt, and slipping backwards while the rest of the Western world moves forward. All thanks to generations of lefty brainwashing.
New Zealand Inc should be the Standard’s logo.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Only one whiner at The Standard. Surely you jest DPF
July 18th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
To follow up on Jack5 Inc is actually as per the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 and is unrelated to charities or non profit. An incorporated society can make money as much as it wants, just non member income is taxed as per a any other company would be.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
If sheath (5.54pm post) is a lawyer, he/she might explain this wording in the Incorporated Societies Act: “Any society consisting of not less than 15 persons associated for any lawful purpose but not for pecuniary gain may, on application being made to the Registrar in accordance with this Act, become incorporated as a society under this Act.”
sheath might also tell us why incorporated societies are maintained separately from limited liability companies in the Companies Office register.
The point is that in “New Zealand Inc” fits nicely with organisations set up other than for “pecuniary gain” — profit.
New Zealand Inc is therefore an appropriate name for an NZ as mythologised by the Standard warthogs.
July 19th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Dumass leftist wankers.
July 19th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
look at what Z writes. It’s all shit.
July 19th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Actually, I think I was wrong, I believe the National Bank reports refer to NZ Limited.
However the argument stands, or perhaps we should call NZ the Aotearoa Free Vegan Collective for the Advancement of Interfaith Woolen Underpants.