My post that got his goat was admittedly long-winded though.
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Well, with Stuff taking over Newshub, everyone will be able to get Stuffed.
Prophetic man that Paddy!
Get Stuffed could be the new name for the program.
This is more like it - get rid of all the diversity & political crap appointees.
High time children comes first rather than Labour’s BS & PC.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/public...EX7EAWNSXG4EY/
Was just reading this.
“ An OT social worker told the Herald “these cuts are significant - even extreme - because most of these positions are held by the kaimahi with the most knowledge, skills and experience. For our children this will mean a poorer service.”
Yes these cuts are extreme.
Extremely small relative to what I would have done!
AHH HUHUHUHUHU!
Get this - As of December 2023, Oranga Tamariki's headcount was 4904, according to data from the Public Service Commission. In July 2018 (refer below), OT had 1503 staff.
So the agency under Lanour went on an orgy of hiring additional 3401 staff (>200%) and is now crying ‘extreme’ because it has to reduce staff numbers by 400!!!
Seriously, fxxk Labour, fxxk Ardern & Kelvin Davis, fxxk OT.
And fxxk the MSM for never highlighting the orgy of Labour hiring 16,000 additional civil servants, while obsessively writing about the minuscule necessary job cuts.
https://www.orangatamariki.govt.nz/a...-2018-2019.pdf
Inflation down to 4%.
Can we give the new govt all the credit? 😅😳🤭
The consumer price index rose 0.6 per cent in the March 2024 quarter - encouraging number which annualises inflation at 2.4% pa.
Too early to give this government credit - let’s see how they go by end of 2024.
One thing for sure - the job cuts in the public sector should send a collective shiver down the spine of the free spending public sector and help rein in inflation.
Savage cuts? NZ Herald can kiss my arse with the description of 565 jobs cut at Ministry of Education.
Because the ministry added 1704 jobs in the last 7 years, mostly in the last 6 years under Ardern, Hipkins and Jan Tinetti. And everything in education went backwards under them and the increased staff.
Redeploy the staff numbers and budgets to schools - that’s where the need is.
WTF did the additional staff hired by Labour do? Dreamt up how to Maorify education and fxxk up students’ education, that’s what.
Fxxk Hipkins and Tinetti especially.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/public...FWLVDZEFAZUXY/
Interesting survey, not sure how much we can rely on it.
New Zealand broken and in decline – new survey
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/18/ne...ine-kiwis-say/
The headline is in line with what Balance has been telling us, but the reasons given in the article strongly diverge with his reasoning for this view.
Balance thinks NZ is in decline due to bludgers and parasites, whether that be beneficiaries, labour, maori or green mps or bureaucrats in general. I have some sympathy for those views.
According to the survey the main reason people think this is People believe the economy is rigged to benefit the rich and powerful and traditional politicians aren’t doing anything about it.
Admittedly labour oversaw the biggest increase in wealth and income disparity ever seen and did nothing concrete to address a monetary system that drives up asset prices while impoverishing the assetless with inflation.
Also both parties have overseen massive immigration which is designed to reduce wages and increase the demand for rent and other services and infrastructure. Both parties are unable to introduce a capital gains tax, but that is mostly due to the voting public or at least a large section of the voting public.
When you see that the people surveyed want to see a strong leader it looks like we are in Neil Howes fourth turning. No one can agree what needs to be done to remedy the situation but a lot of people feel the need for change.
Change appears to fail at the point when people are asked to make some sort of sacrifice for the benefit of the country as a whole.
Quality, not quantity - something that has escaped the leftist woke purveyors of socialist and communist ideologies.
Ministry of Education Cuts in Perspective.
NZH reports 565 positions to go.
4,509 – 565 = 3,944 remaining employed.
3,944 – 2,700 (in 2017) = 1,244 to get back to pre-Labour (Hipkins) level.
While it is hard for people to lose positions many of the new roles since 2017 have done little or nothing to help the children of NZ get a better education. If fact – the attendance and success of those students – has moved inversely to the willy-nilly employment strategies of Iona Holstead and her Deputy Secretaries.
I haven’t seen it announced that Holsted (and her off-siders) have accepted responsibility for both the dire situation with the education system and the fact that 565 have been shown the door.
There is little integrity if the top 12 have not fallen on their envelope openers and allowed Stanford and Seymour to bring in good people and bring the system change that our children, families, society and economy desperately needs.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/04/m...rspective.html
*Alwyn Poole is a well-known figure in the New Zealand education system. He founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years.
When we have those with vested interest and entitlement, there is inertia to change. Whether the inertia is from all those extra staff in OT, and other departments, or from those who have comparatively benefited from our existing state fiscal and monetary policies. How much social disintegration is needed before the point of inflexion is reached for the voting public to vote in major reform?
We have left wing governments that develop a feeling of social entitlement on the one hand, without tackling the system that is developing economic disadvantage. Then a right wing government that tackles the burgeoning social entitlement, while not tackling the economic entitlement for others.
This ain't great!
Lobbyist rules of engagement watered down to nothing at a time that ministers are given unprecedented powers.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/progr...wn-meaningless
"A majority of New Zealand respondents backed these statements, as well as expressing desire for a “strong leader” to either “take the country back from the rich and powerful” or “break the rules” to get things done."
So what happened?
I thought the woke leftists believe that Ardern was a 'strong leader' and she implemented so many policies to 'take the country back from the rich and powerful' and 'break the rules' to get things done?
How could things get worse with such a leader, especially one elected in 2020 with an unprecedented MMP majority mandate?
Racial, social and economic divisions never seen and experienced before in NZ - that's the legacy of the 'strong leader' that NZ had for 5.33 of the last 6 years!
The answer is of course that the majority of politicians are for themselves first and foremost, especially the flaky ones like Clueless Cindy & Hapless Hipkins.
Then, there's the NZ voting public - always looking for a quick fix with no pain or sacrifices from themselves. Particularly the parasites and beneficiaries.
Those with initiative, skills and get up & go - best to migrate to Australia.
I always thought it was funny that labour won the first time without changing any policy but just changed the leader who had a nice smile and a catchy slogan. Not sure what that says about the NZ voter.
What is Aussie doing differently, other than having mineral wealth.
As a left leaning bleeding heart I like their much more progressive tax system (45% over $190,000) as well as a capital gains tax, also they force people to save for their own retirement not expecting someone else to pay for it. There is state super for those that need it though.
Wealth distribution mostly happens through taxation Aussie appears to be doing a lot more of this than NZ yet you are suggesting it is a better place.
What about the low tax, small govt mantra our current leaders are following. Will this allow us to catch up to Australia or are they just pandering to selfish aholes to win votes.
Admittedly the vast waste from the previous govt will have put us all off govt spending for a while but National should be able to come up with some practical projects to push the nation forward if they had the money.
That's what it was, a dildo carrot to get power.yes Labour may have gone a little too far with their policies but what's happening now are extreme ,punishing , damaging cuts and changes the other way, treating this country like ruthless cost cutting business devoid of compassion care and empathy and removing environmental safeguards to boot. It's a dumbing down of Life here as we know it. The screws are turning tighter and tighter for most kiwis and hardships are going to just keep increasing imo.I give this cannibal collective maybe a year before they get the chop.
No, that’s not quite right.
Though Cindy did provide the party with a boost after Cunliffe and Little ran the party into the ground, at the general election Labour still only managed 36.9% party vote.
National (under Bill English) got 44.4%. A very solid result in MMP.
But because Winnie was p1ssed off with National due to someone leaking his pension overpayment details, he did not form a coalition with the largest party (even though NZF and their voter based are much more aligned with National).
Cindy even rang Bill on election night to congratulate him as it seemed obvious that National would form the next govt.
So Cindy was only put into power because Winnie had the zig with the nats.
In the first term NZF was somewhat of a handbrake on labour. They certainly stopped their nuttier polices.
Labour was on track to be a one term govt -
then Covid hit and people decided kind, caring Cindy was just what we needed more of. So she won an absolute majority. No NZF handbrake. And the rest is history.
I actually blame Winston for the mess we are in.
OK Labour didn't win the election unless you count governing the nation as a win, but their popularity surged from 26% to a peak of 44% settling to 39.6% on election night just by having Jacinda take over as leader. What policies did labour change or introduce to cause this surge in popularity?
My point is that labour won by accident.
Your note about “what does that say about the NZ voter?” …as in the majority of nzers wanted a labour govt even though they were still a shambles, with no feasible and costed policies.
The sentiment on election day was towards a national led govt. But Winnie got the zig.
True that Jacindamania did grip many people. It felt good to have someone say we should be kind, and empathetic towards each other (not that she was herself lol).
And she was going to end child hunger too, she assured us earnestly.
The polls did fluctuate with people being in love with Cindy on the day of certain polls.
But when the cold hard reality of casting a vote came about, a lot more people threw their lot in with Boring Bill.
And that is all that matters at the end of the day (not what the polls said leading up).
Build a tunnel under Wellington - what a great idea (not).
Will they continue with the 2nd (third?) tunnel through Mt Victoria?
How will they pay for it?
Will any of this 'Get Wellington Moving'?
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My point which you completely missed was that a decent chunk of the voting public couldn't give a rats ar*se about policy (which is what should matter imo) and will vote for a smiley face. Labour went from 26% to 44% with no change in policies that I remember, which imo was crazy.
I recall John Key used to put on his smiley face when in public and he was much loved.
You are very defensive or argumentative to have so completely got the wrong end of the stick but FP was agreeing with you so maybe it was me who was not clear.
How quick the woke leftist losers (who kept quiet about the wasted $228m spent on Auckland's Light Rail and $76m on Auckland's bike bridge to nowhere) are to shoot down any idea (utilising NZTA's legion of new hires by Labour in the last 6 years) to investigate options for better transport. So desperate are they (like dobby41) to cover up the total mess made by their hero Clueless Cindy of NZ that they cannot see the tunnel for the earth anymore!
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/35...on-tunnel-idea
Transport expert Greg Pollock, who is the former head of Metlink and Transdev, said the long tunnel seemed like a “great idea” and he was pleased to see the Government looking into it.
Diverting the traffic around the edge of the city would make it a nicer place to live without congestion. “We get our city back, hats off to the Government,” Pollock said.
Yep fair enough, accept for the first bit of your post you just made up. If you tone down the wide sweeping insults your posts might actually gain some respect. I know like the scorpion it's in your nature, but perhaps just ask yourself, am I repeating over & over what's constantly whirring around in my head...
Anyway it was NZTA that recommended the Government look into the tunnel, so they obviously think it's worth considering.
Meanwhile, still plenty of squealing, whinging, chest beating and cries of contrived outrage by Labour, their collusive communist mates in the CTU and various woke leftists (especially in the MSM) about the job cuts in government departments and agencies.
But zero scrutiny about how Labour added 16,000 more civil servants to make everything worse for NZ in the last 6 years!
Here's an excellent opinion piece on why the 16,000 more civil servants made things worse for NZ and why there needs to be even deeper cuts than what have been made so far.
Basically, plenty of governments departments and jobs created to duplicate existing government departments and jobs in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion - especially to incorporate the Treaty & minority groups.*
https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/04/18/the-...et-that-wasnt/
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion might better be described as Divide, Exclude and Inflame religious and community tensions.
Lack of funding wasn’t a consideration for the previous Labour Government and the new coalition Government hasn’t yet got its head around the unknown number of bull**** departments established during the Ardern-Hipkins regime, still soaking up government funding. They aren’t going to raise their heads above the parapet and shout “Pick me!” during the government’s current cost cutting process, nor are they going to voluntarily become accountable.
* Read the job advert in the article above and weep for NZ. Then, get ready to move to Australia if you are a young university graduate with the world ahead of you. Don't waste time in NZ - it's a lost cause.
Didn’t Seymour rule Winnie out too in the last election?
LOL.
You can rule out whoever you like to talk tough during the campaign, but under MMP that is all just noise when the votes are counted and the realities of doing deals to form a govt come into play.
At that point the public hope egos are put aside for the greater good of the nation.
And much as I dislike his politics, I believe he is the right politician (being a Maori) at this time to put the racist divisive Maori elitist politicians in their place. His put down of the Maori Party clowns at every occasion is a master class display of understated bang on insults, leaving them squirming with no face & place to hide. Well, guess they can always hide behind their tattoos. :t_up:
This is why it is silly imo when anyone rules people out in a MMP envronment.
Because when the votes are counted, of course everyone is going to try to do a deal.
It is a big risk to rule anyone out (especially Winnie). You have to be certain that ruling the person out crash their voter base.
And you can't be sure of that, so don't do it or else you have to backtrack and end up just gifting political opponents and media something to criticise you over.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...ill-considered
I do find that Luxon babbles a lot, and repeats a carefully constructed script when he is under pressure.
He needs to get more media training I think to become more slick at answering questions.
You just wouldn't see more experienced politicians like Winnie babble and carry on like that.
I am very very glad that NZers elected NZF & ACT to stiffen National’s spine to tackle the woke divisive & destructive policies of the left. Luxon lacks a spine and is trying to be a pleasant PM - the time for that is long over after 6 years of Ardern, Hipkins and the Maori cabal.
Give him hell, Seymour & Peters. Fxxk woke and fxxk race politics.
Luxon simply does not get the fact that the majority of NZers have had enough of the racist, social and economic divisive policies of the last 6 years. They want a strong leader who will lead and break NZ out of the downward spiral towards 2nd world status, not another middle of the road 'steady as she goes into the ditch' government.
Here's an idea of the huge task ahead for NZ to turn around the slide towards 2nd world status :
https://lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/
"Of all the babies born in 2023, 20.2 percent were on a benefit by the end of December. For Maori babies the percentage rises to 34.3%. 72% of last year’s welfare babies had caregivers on the Sole Parent Support benefit and in jobless households.
The collapse of the stable two-parent family – particularly for Maori whereby last year 82.5 percent of babies were born to unmarried parents – has had a dramatic effect here and around the western world.
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Look at the blue line and the answer is so clear as to why NZ is becoming a nation which breeds parasites, beneficiaries & losers :
https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...ts%20graph.png
More on the staff cuts - this time at the Ministry of Education.
"In 2022, the Curriculum Centre at the Education Ministry employed 308 staff, according to an Official Information Request. This past week it was announced 202 were being laid-off."
So how can so many staff be laid off from from one department in the MoE?
Well, read on and you will realise that the 308 staff were basically stuffing around, doing bugger all and they not only cost an estimated $100m to do the fxxk all, they were actually busy undermining the education system in NZ.
https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/ha...er-100m-on-a-6
Remember that Hapless Hipkins was the minister in charge from 2017 to 2023 before the useless & deceitful Tinetti took over.
And that's with the collusion of Hipkins' mother, no less!
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...pg?format=500w
So there it was on Q & A this morning.
An unashamed address from the head boy and girl of Manurewa college, directed at David Seymour (NZ taxpayers) that he was out of touch by being in Epsom, and did not understand why school lunches should still be provided by taxpayers.
Will those head students now make a media statement directed at parents who definitely don't watch Q&A, reminding them of their obligations to feed their children, and prepare them properly for school?
Or would that be un PC?
Is it a case of We breed, You feed us?
Attarower sinking further into the mire eh?
I think you maybe so out of touch yourself.Now more than ever many many parents are struggling especially after paying the rent or even mortgage.For ex a working solo dad told me a few days ago about the struggle to pay his bills ,his landlord has refused to consider his situation, put the rent up and he is on near min payrates.
Yes this can only be better than the current situation.
Really big unintended consequences of CCCFA.
Very typical Labour.
It came about because of pay day lenders and other predatory outfits.
But rather than bring in some new rules to target the unscrupulous lenders who got desperate consumers into a debt trap, they hit the nuclear button and made lending incredibly difficult.
Nanny State rules whereby all lenders (including tier 1 and tier 2 lenders….so the banks and even the likes of UDC FINANCE, GE Money) have to scrutinise every line item of your spending as part of the lending process.
Big fines if any ‘unreasonable’ loans given - not only to the company but exec managers individually. So they (the banks etc) took a conservative line when updating processes to accomodate CCCFA.
Even though banks were already lending responsibly and the problem was with smaller loan sharks, the CCCFA applied to all and was just way over the top.
Incredibly invasive, and has caused huge delays in processing loans as well as meant a lot of people who should reasonably qualify for a loan are now declined.
Very bad legislation.
I was shocked when I worked on one of the projects for a finance company at the time and realised the changes we had to make. I thought the Project Manager was taking the p1ss at first.
Yeah, I'm out of touch all right.
My time volunteering in Citizens Advice and Budget Advisory means nothing.
I'm out touch with what people waste their money on, bad prioritization, but expect others to bail them out.
I'm out of touch when l watch How to eat better for less, and see the gross excess some live by.
I'm out of touch when l shop at the supermarket and see what people fill their trundlers with.
I'm out of touch when l hear solo mothers with 2 kids netting $1200 a week from the taxpayer, more than a serving Police constable.
I'm out of touch with the time l spent in Otara, and when l revisit 3 times a year to see all the money spent on take aways in the Otara shopping centre.
I really should get out more.
What about you?
You forgot the queues for Lotto.
Yeah nobody ever wants to talk about the bad decisions people make with the money they do have which makes their hard situation infinitely harder.
Not allowed to talk about personal responsibility or you are out of touch or racist.
There are very few people in this country who literally don’t have enough money for the basics.
Plenty of people crying poverty and have an easy avenue with our left wing media…but a lot of those people always seem to have plenty of money for a things takeaways, ciggies, weed, booze.
I have people in my own family who are broke, whinging about how tough life is…yet they never admit they the crap they waste their money on has been the biggest determinant of their current life situation.
We are expected to believe they everyone who is broke is a victim you see. And the plan to help these ‘victims’ is to drag everyone else down to to further subsidise their choices.
Victims especially when they are BROWN, according to the brown elites and the woke leftists who cry victimisation and discrimination at anyone and anything remotely criticising said victims for their behaviour.
If they are sick, it’s because they are marginalised - nothing to do with their lifestyle.
If they are poor, it’s because they are marginalised - nothing to do with having umpteen number of children with umpteen number of absconding fathers.
And so on and so forth.
But there is hope for you Getty. You could go to a course like they are advertising here at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology to get some "accurate" information about the Tiriti and "help you reflect on your place in this discussion"
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I beg redemption.
If Labour Greens were still in government, I'd have been rounded up by now, and sent to reunification camp!
Pathetic effort by Labour Opposition led by Hapless Hipkins & the Maori cabal to try & tar the government over regulatory imperatives to lift NZ’s economic performance with favouring donors.
The very same Labour Party which receives donations from the trade unions and pass legislations to favour them to retard NZ’s economic performance. That’s how pathetically hypocritical and immoral the Labour Party is.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...al-says-labour
Just the first one, then the other two will be fine.
Monday morning and we are already being a silly sausage I see? Shame man.
Parents need to get their kids to school after the parents have nurtured them at home (which includes getting the kids to bed at a reasonable time and then ensuring they have some breakfast in the morning, and take food with them for lunch).
The default should not be that taxpayers must step in and be the parents.
Unfortunately not every family is the Brady Bunch. Any type of sausage could be good! Landlord subsidy is ok then? Even though good tenants will soon be able to be evicted with no cause. So families with established routines could be forced to move on.
Funding for education is OK? Even though empty bellies could make teaching for all difficult. How about the subsidised breakfast club schemes?
British government ministers got into trouble over jobs for mates with respect to fast tracking with ministerial discretion over purchasing of covid supplies.
The Infrastructure emergency that has built up needs a speedy response but with checks to make sure contracts awarded are above board.
Yes we know you are positive that the sky is going to fall because interest deductibility is being restored. If deducting interest as an expense is evil then it should be banned for all. Not fair that I can borrow money to buy shares and deduct the interest from my income yet a landlord cannot.
We have a school lunch program of sorts that needs to be trimmed back.
Nobody wants hungry kids at school, but there is a legitimate question around how much the state should be on the hook for feeding kids. Especially when a lot of these kids could have enough food but their parents prefer to spend the money on self-gratification.
We tried your communist model for 6 years. It failed to meet the proposed objectives and has put us in a tricky spot. How many iterations of this do we need to go through before we understand that communism/socialism just does not work.
Yes the idea that LL's are now just going to kick people out onto the street is nuts. Just fearmongering by BJ as he continues to try to make a storm in a teacup.
Life will go on much as it always has after this change.
And if there are any landlords who decide they don't want to rent the property out all they need to do is give a very reasonable 3 months notice. They certainly do not need to explain their actions to BJ, or anyone for that matter.
Good luck getting a loan from the bank to borrow money to buy shares, on the security of the shares themselves.
I guess it depends on how far you want the kids to suffer for the failings and/or circumstances of their parents.
It was the previously mentioned accommodation supplement to which I was referring. Certainly interest deductibility for new builds would be good. Some state assistance is good? How do you define communism?
It gives LL's a bit more confidence when selecting tenants that if they get it wrong and the tenants turn out to be bad tenants that show no respect for your property, you can get rid of them. Currently this is not the case and it stops lots of potential tenants being selected, even though they may well be totally good tenants. One just can not take risks with one's properties. The result is a huge increase in people on emergency housing waiting lists, sleeping in cars or motels. This rule change is one piece of many in the puzzle to get people into decent housing in NZ.
If tenants turn out to bad, doesn’t the current legislation allow the tenancy to be ended if there is serious damage, three weeks non-payment of rent, or if a 14 day notice to remedy a breach has passed? I have no experience but In your experience does the tribunal make in difficult for landlords to seek redress? What is the process to appoint tribunal adjudicators (is it open to political interference)?
I certainly agree that with the high investment value wrapped up in a residential property, I would be protective of it, if I were an owner. How do you think we should cope with chronically indigent tenants. They would become a social issue, one way or another.
The need to build more housing to relieve overcrowding and cope with the growing population is an ongoing issue.
Thats the thing isn't it. The pearl clutchers will tell you the landlord is mean and morally corrupt. The reality is we are running a business, not obliged to provide a house to anyone. In any other business its the owners prerogative to choose which customers they deal with and if said customers cause more trouble than its worth you stop trading with them: You are under no obligation to "help" a customer (though often its good business practice - but thats a different conversation)
I love the turn of phrase some of you posters use to put down those with whom you disagree!
Each business type has particular rules and regulations. If you don’t like them, invest your equity elsewhere. For some, supplying ball bearings would be a better fit rather than supplying homes.
You started by saying "Good luck getting a loan from the bank to borrow money to buy shares, on the security of the shares themselves."
You don't acknowledge that you are incorrect. Instead you double down implying that margin lending has risks, of course it does, all borrowing does, and which are all fully disclosed in the public domain!
Then you say the margin lending rates are "double" mortgage lending rates. Incorrect, the margin lending rate from ASB is 9.35% which is not double most mortgage rates, and is considerably less than most personal loan interest rates, or business borrowing interest rates.
Here you go Panda, as you can see I'm really raking it in as a landlord. Good thing I didn't have to work hard to be in a position to develop some new build rentals and didn't provide work for tax generating trades and services along the way. I guess since I'm basically a charity I should pay tax either way!
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I agree that the rules went a bit far with mainstream banks but this was addressed (a bit) later.
So the Coalition of Chaos 'fixes' it by throwing it all out?
How will the changes address the primary target - the unscrupulous lenders who don't care if you can't afford the horrendous interest rates and haven't a clue that that is the case?
I am not at all happy with the losses! This year is probably going to put me backwards about $50k with my interest rate now 6.95 where the entire 23/24 year it was 4.99%
I'd actually be pretty stoked to make a profit from the rent and never sell. If I could have great quality tenants that I can provide high quality reliable housing for, ideally they would be on their journey to home ownership or perhaps they aren't permanent residents so they can't buy.
At the end of the day I'd also pay a tax but at this rate I never will because tax is on profit and we've got it so wrong that I might never make one. I think the bank is the only one winning.