elZorro, typical of you to try and flip facts to favor your left leanings. Try flipping this. Let the good times roll. Perhaps Labour has done all the hard yards in the last five years and not National. I look forward to your reply.
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elZorro, typical of you to try and flip facts to favor your left leanings. Try flipping this. Let the good times roll. Perhaps Labour has done all the hard yards in the last five years and not National. I look forward to your reply.
Cuzzie, check the link? If you mean the article further up, the CHCH repair/rebuild work and improved commodity prices, largely a timing issue with a wealthier China buying more of our dairy products etc, is not evidence of sound National policy. If a normal dairy price downturn occurs after 2014, some of these returns will disappear like water in a dairy factory's powder drier.
EZ. So that would be the same as NZ doing OK in boom years under Labour. The same argument you normally put forward is now the argument your against?
You can pay as much tax as you choose Belg. You can donate money if your so ideologically opposed to the idea of people having it.
Cough, cough, splutter, splutter... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11175412
Flipping heck, you have done it again. Blinded by an ego far bigger than Labour could ever uphold no doubt.
I've come up will a brilliant idea to stop you flipping facts elzorro and that is to place the good next to the bad & ugly. Side by side facts that showcase just how bad & ugly Labour was when the most of the other first world nations did OK. Just look at Australia in the Helen Clark years and yep that does include a Labour Govt. An Aussie Labour Govt. that did way better than ours. They also show how good National did when most of the other first world Nations struggled with worldwide pressures of the recession. Just look at how poorly Aussie is doing now. That reflects on the Labour Govt. just kicked out, not the current Aussie Govt.
Here we go, enjoy!!!
National inherited an economy where:
The current account deficit was almost 9% of GDP.
Net external debt (public plus private) had blown out to 84% of GDP.
Inflation was running at 5.1%
Government spending had gone up 50% in five years.
The economy had been going backwards for four quarters.
Treasury was forecasting never ending deficits & debt looked likely to get to 60% of GDP & never come down.And Now:
The current account deficit is now 4.3% of GDP
Net external debt is now 71% of GDP
Inflation is only 1.4%
Government spending is well under control despite the pressures of the recession, the GFC and the Canterbury earthquakes.
The economy grew 2.5% in the past year – one of the highest rates in the OECD.
We are now forecast to be in surplus in 2014/15 and debt is expected to peak below 30% of GDP.
Go ahead ... make my day elzorro ... flip that!!!
You chaps are preoccupied with a two horse race.
Check out the policies and character profiles of all serious parties, and vote accordingly. The duty is ours to vote consistent with our beliefs, rather than negatively / tactically trying to keep a less desirable party out...and then we should leave the results to God. That's the only way to vote faithfully and with clear conscience.
Don't let any bunch of pricks drag you down so low that you end up hating them.
BC
Orr no B.C she's way more complicated than that and I don't believe in any god. The Conservatives do I know and they have some really solid policies. That's something the Greens are missing. Labour has got a few, but not enough to help our economy. There is no way we can afford a left wing party right now and turbo the far left to boot in the Greenies. It's really important to keep the country recovering before we get another bout of the left wing blues. We as a whole can not afford a Labour Govt. right now. Let National finish the fix first that the H.C Govt. done before we get negative pulled .... again.
[QUOTE=Cuzzie;450863]Flipping heck, you have done it again. Blinded by an ego far bigger than Labour could ever uphold no doubt.
I've come up will a brilliant idea to stop you flipping facts elzorro and that is to place the good next to the bad & ugly. Side by side facts that showcase just how bad & ugly Labour was when the most of the other first world nations did OK. Just look at Australia in the Helen Clark years and yep that does include a Labour Govt. An Aussie Labour Govt. that did way better than ours. They also show how good National did when most of the other first world Nations struggled with worldwide pressures of the recession. Just look at how poorly Aussie is doing now. That reflects on the Labour Govt. just kicked out, not the current Aussie Govt.
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Cherry picking again Cu. Carefull you don't choke on all the stones you are swallowing!
Westerly
The Conservatives (or at least Colin Craig) are hell bent on binding referendums. Do you really really really want the man in the street dictating economic policy etc? All set to go with a formal education gained in the local public bar, or from talk-back radio, and all wound up by paranoid twerps like Russell Norman. Not for me thanks.