The stats and facts do not support your contention so go back to square one and try again.
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QUOTE=Balance;1006414]The stats and facts do not support your contention so go back to square one and try again.[/QUOTE]
You are in complete denial.
Rotten hospital & school buildings. No new hospitals and very few classrooms built.
Underpaid health & education workers.
And it's a fact that Nation sold social houses and didn't build any!
I'm not some Labour flag bearer I am a centrist that has voted both left & right and I don't have one eye closed as you do.
It's probably a good thing National sold off a number of social houses, they're (Kainga Ora/Labour) struggling to manage their portfolio and obligations as landlords as is.
And how did the blind know he wasn't an out and out liar as they couldn't see if he could see.
Savvy?
Actually that saying reminds me of Luxon the least authentic person in politics. You cannot live one way & go against your beliefs to live another. Mind you most Christians forget one of Christ's most important teachings. You know the one about the camel & the eye of the needle.
@ Balance:
As an expat Canadian living in NZ for nearly 25 years, I would move my family back to Canada in a heart beat. However, unlike most things in life, you simply can't divorce or rid you extended family. Relatives, relationships and bonds strongly made during my stay in NZ. So my only recourse would be what Balance does and that is to complain about the Labour Party and the damage Jacinda has done.
Like yourself, I also encourage the young and new uni grads to move to Australia. But if you asked me 10 years ago, I would be singing a different tune. Economist Bernard Hickey has also made this claim 2 years ago:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/25...ation-was-lost
People have short term memories. That's the whole problem with people when they vote. They have an expectation that the gov't should be giving voters some entitlement. As Milton Friedman (nobel prize winner in Econoimcs) said and i'm paraphrasing, "In the realm of inflation, don't blame the gov't for causing inflation... no no.. blame yourself, the voters that put political leaders in power, which at the end reward themselves and to the lessor part, the voters in ways that only involve gov't spending:
https://youtu.be/F94jGTWNWsA?t=128
But if you go ask the commoner in NZ what causes inflation, they would say something else than the gov't, and if you ask the gov't what causes inflation (particularly the Green Party), they would say it's "Greedy Corporations" raising prices that cause inflation.