No more dopey than 'centre right' that National and it's far right tea party friends have been reaching for years
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FP, you're spelling has been less than perfect sometimes, so their.
Anyway, does "centrist" encapsulate screwing down the public sector every time you're in office, stopping super fund payments, selling off public assets, and making it harder for SMEs? Holding down minimum wages, decreasing the top tax rate, moving R&D funding and other incentives to bigger businesses? If so, they are doing a great job.
It was a while ago FP, I should have saved it for just such a discussion..:)
I found a typo though, and another one in a 22nd April post. Tsk tsk.
I will admit to being a poor typer, especially so when using my small netbook. And before you tell me there's (or in your language their's) no such word as 'typer', there is now because I refuse to call myself a typist, just as I refuse to call actresses actors, or waitresses waiters. :D
Why El Zorro? $14 compares favourably with many European countries. We do not know how good we have it in this country with a minimum wage of $14 especially when our tax system takes ACC into account. Where I lived in Europe compulsory health insurance cost about $160 per month per person. Imagine every Kiwi having to fork out an additional $160 per month to cover this. Not so here.
Ez doesn't live in the real world. If he or she had any idea of small businesses, particularly in small towns, he/she would realise it is simply impossible for the likes of cafes, hairdressers, small retailer's etc., to pay that sort of money. They haven't got it. It's often more than the proprietor earns. I doubt that many kiwis understand how tough things are in Europe, America or Asia, and how good we have got it, even at the lower end of our income scale.
Pedantic, I didn't realise I was sitting an english test. I left the p off reaching too!
With regard to the later posts along the lines of "we don't know how lucky we are" I suggest it is more likely we do and wish to keep it this way.
National and its policies of selling off the assets and reducing Govt. expenditure and relying on private enterprise to provide doesn't in my view work for the majority. Nz is a small country. Labour tried that and I don't think it was very successful apart from the few who made a lot of money out of it,
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