Post by James ChristophersPost by Rich80105On Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:03:27 -0600, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
Post by TonyPost by James ChristophersPost by TonyPost by CrashOn Tue, 01 Dec 2020 21:51:31 -0600, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
Post by TonyPost by Tonyhttps://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300173110/labours-big-new-tax-makes-02-percentage-point-dent-in-inequality
Yes, five eighths of bugger all difference.
As predicted when Labour proposed this initiative as policy prior to
the election.
Post by TonyJust political nonsense. Labour should be delighted that there are enough
people in this country that swallow the shallowness of their policies.
Correct, but they are delivering on a pre-election commitment. That
needs to be acknowledged even if there is no major deliverable from
it.
Post by TonyWhen will they address child poverty and housing not to mention the other
pressing issues?
Correct. With a caucus of 65 MPs, this term Labour need to focus
relentlessly on delivery on pre-election promises.
Post by TonyI will give them a few months, just as I did after the 2017 election, to
deliver some of their promises. Hopefully this time they will actually govern
and not fail dismally.
Fair comment, but personally I would give them longer to get started.
The next budget (May 2021) will be a key milestone to measure what
they have achieved to date, where they are heading and how well the
economy is being managed.
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Crash McBash
Fair enough Crash. I will give them as much time as I feel is fair.
All a-tremble and with baited breath, Labour awaits your lordly imprimatur!
Post by TonyI did so last time and I will do so this time.
Spoken like a true authoritarian!
Covid-19 and its inevitable long-term consequences have kicked the props out
from under whatever financial heft might have been at Labour's disposal at the
time it made what I always thought and said on this forum were hopelessly
unrealistic promises. Thus irrational exuberance. And with the economic
landscape now having so radically shifted against the government, I'm "giving
them" no time whatever to achieve much if not most of what they had originally
promised since, again, it would in my view be unrealistic, even fatuous to do
so.
I think Robertson is likely to do the utmost he can to advance whatever
economic priorities are set, but even so, his actions and outcomes are
necessarily severely circumscribed by events here (particularly the
fiscal/OCR/debt conundrum), and, worldwide, scenarios over which he has no say
or control. Internationally, Zealand is characterised and categorised as a
needy taker from, rather than a monied giver to, and thereby cannot help but be
a cork on a storm-tossed sea.
The one favourable factor among several is that New Zealand's credit is good,
but such a view is based not on an isolated assessment but on a comparative one
involving and including other economic partners and competitors in similarly
varying and similarly unfavourable circumstances. Hence those "Ratings" handed
down from the Olympian heights of global financing's Fat Controllers.
Hope is a fine thing - what's more, it doesn't cost a dime; whereas satisfying
expectations is not only expensive but infinitely harder to accomplish.
I expect you took hours to put that nonsense together.
Moments only, solely because I have the required facts to hand to deploy as
needed. You should try it sometime. It'd be a first for you, as well. Fancy
that!
Show how.
Post by Rich80105What a nasty comment. All it does is confirm that you are consistent
in your desire to be offensive.
Those whose degenerate compulsions oblige them to seek out and dub others as
what they insanely perceive as offensive, are more often than not themselves
offensive - eg. Trump (he's also insanely authoritarian, too! Funny that, eh?)
Post by Rich80105Post by TonyI am not authoritarian, that is something I know to be correct.
You are not a three-legged 15-ton ballerina, that is something you also know
to be correct, and bully for you, say I!
Post by Rich80105You are getting confused. Your posts show all the characteristics of
an authoritarian
Correct wording. Which is precisely why I specifically wrote, 'Spoken like',
not "Spoken as...'.
- your unsupported personal opinion is to your mind
Post by Rich80105always sufficient proof, not only for yourself, but in your mind
sufficient for anyone else. You have no authority, Tony, but can still
be authoritarian with your zero value posts.
Post by TonyMy career attests to that.
Deep into your dotage but now reduced to writing code to make ends meet? Wow!
Some career, eh?
Post by Rich80105There you go again - how can anyone argue with your total lack of
evidence!
Post by TonyYou, on the other hand, wield your limited abilities in a manner that most of
us find laughable. Lots of words and stuff all content.
Usenet's democratic and flexible style and form are - thank God - eclectic,
ranging from the driest erudition or maybe conversational discourse and debate,
then on and down to the anti-intellectual nadir of that creepy nether hell-hole
where old men, made mad by their spooky binary compulsions, get off exchanging
noughts and ones between each other simply to confirm to each other they
haven't actually died. Yet.
Post by Rich80105We all have limited abilities, but James Christophers has a valuable
ability to make his meaning clear in a way that does not cause
needless offence, but can put in a bit of humour to leaven the
message. Perhaps you are jealous . . .
Ah yes, Envy - the little green monster that corrupts the mind, corrodes the
will, destroying the very heart and soul!
Post by Rich80105Post by TonyDo please find an idea that is not one that you stole from somebody else and
re-worded.
From alpha to omega, Academe itself is replete with original works of great
erudition and imagination, much if not most of it resting on, and/or referring
to, the works of those who have gone before. And you would yet disown and
disavow such garnered learning, not to mention the resulting elevation of the
consciousness - yes you, that so-called "classically educated" scholar, no less
- 70% Latin pass an' all?
That's twice in this exchange you have speciously spoken for others, you
unknowingly presumptuous little squirt.
Post by Rich80105It certainly appears that very few of your ideas have ever been held
by anyone else, Tony; but contrary to your views I suspect many do not
find that appealing. However you take pride in never giving any
supporting evidence for your views; perhaps your lack of the ability
to provide any evidence of your arguments has in some way persuaded
you of your belief in your own infallibility.
childhood has engineered your even worse adulthood.
You are incapable of balance and incapable of debate and incapable of humainty.