Re No 3 Hoop. Almost did that myself -was flying to Australia and bought a "Stereo" Video tape recorder over their and bought it back - took an extra bag for that very purpose, as they were not that common here and cost something like twice as much.
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Re No 3 Hoop. Almost did that myself -was flying to Australia and bought a "Stereo" Video tape recorder over their and bought it back - took an extra bag for that very purpose, as they were not that common here and cost something like twice as much.
Hoop, my comments were directed at the index, not you. Its a shame you seem to have taken the comments personally.
But lets break down your comments.
1) Actually I think most people do realize and its been a great place for a long time, however some of us think its deteriorating under the Key lead government. I hear a lot from right wingers about getting positive, or anyone who criticizes the government as being negative. However it doesn't follow when they criticized the Clark government for instance. Howard in Australia & so to Abbott used a similar tactic and called people un-Australian if you didn't agree with them. Its was also a tactic of the McCarthy era in the US.
2) What I said was that tripling government debt obviously doesn't mean much in this index & called it BS because of that. I think any primary school kid knows African countries are poor etc....
3) Well I also remember when even low income people could buy a house in Auckland. You can compare a stereo, I'll compare a house. I think housing isn't so discretionary.
4) Umm I did say since the 1980s.... Muldoon & the era you refer to is prior to the time I am referring to.
5) Agree, but as I said tripling it since doesn't seem to have impacted the index... Seems a little odd to me.
6) How has reliance in Diary fallen? In dollar terms in now looks better than 2 years ago, but that's just because the price has imploded.
7) Well that depends on how you measure a standard of living. NZ has had a very good standard of living for a long time and mostly can be credited to the Michael Joseph Savage Government that got NZ through the recession & put in place a welfare system. Now, we could be reverting with housing issues, of poor quality and affordability. Environmentally we are going backwards, but that's quite often not measured.
8) You are suggesting I don't I presume? Perhaps your own bias coming out there. I have a bias against Key I'll certainly admit to that, but he makes that easy.
9) So you compare one peak to another. I also think you know I was obviously referring to Auckland where 1/3rd of the population live.
In regards electricity, yes demand has increased substantially, but so has the profits to providers and alternative energy such as solar is not being encouraged & in fact you get paid less for putting it back in the grid. The electricity industry is pretty much protected and independent generation isn't encouraged. If it was we would see substantially lower prices. We have also seen an over spend on infrastructure for electricity distribution. Do you remember that is what was being used to justify 7-10% increases?
Anyway Hoop, I have always appreciated your posts, so I hope there are no hard feelings.
All the best. Daytr
Daytr...My post may have cross across differently to what I intended..I wrote it in a hurry:),...I took nothing personally..
What I meant in my post was, I don't waste my time debating politics nor religion as it is a no win argument and I personally want to use my time in a more productive way rather than pissing everyone off and probably getting banned in the process:).
Biased....Me? of course I am :D ...every single one of us are biased in their own ways..Its one of our weaknesses that each and everyone of us have and we should identify the areas where we have trouble with ..especially if we are in the business of investing...I rectify some of my personal bias weakness by using charts....and TA.. I also suffer myself to force-read peoples views that I'm totally against, to try and understand and get to see their viewpoint. On an odd occasion I have learn't new things out of it:mellow:
As for my Political preference its usually depends on the environment I'm surrounded in..
Daytr there is no hard feelings never was.......so's it's all good:cool:...
Keep up the postings
Hoop
Agree with all of that Hoop, cheers buddy
A country to live in and a flag to fly. Tonight I got partly pissed at an RSA wine club where, for five dollars, I sampled eight wines and bought about four bottles for my collection. For another forty dollars three of us had a solid meal and another drink. It was a great night with a competent presenter and a lot of humour. while I was having my meal I heard another member organising a protest against the flag referendum.We went home and had a large Bourbon from my own collection, and tomorrow, I am poised to strike on the dealing floor and make my fortune. I will miss the protest tomorrow and will have a couple of pints at the RSA and some raffles and another meal. Now why should I spoil all this with a Labour government? Did you know that one of the finest reds from Marlborough ( wherever that is) is finished in John Jamieson barrels from My home town of Dublin? ( they take the whisky out first) which is a shame.
An Irish Tory, not too many of them from the South I would have thought. ;-) Nice jab, Craic, however I am sure you were having the same fine evenings 8 years ago, but probably cost you less. ;-)
Hoop, I make the point again that Belgarion started this thread, the proof is that someone like Craic copied the post at some stage and commented on it. Good stirring though.
I'm not so sure that you can treat the entire economy like a share and write about 10 points down to encapsulate it.
5. Noted that you agreed with the Helen Clark govt approach to paying off debt. Except that they also grew the economy a lot, in terms of registered SMEs, tax take, employed numbers, and then left the country with an R&D tax credit system designed to increase innovation at the grassroots level, set up and in place. It was National who immediately scrapped that audited system, and now big R&D grants are mostly going to a few big businesses, some of which are overseas owned and/or listed companies. The tax take dropped and is only now recovering several years later. They have never posted a govt surplus, despite being in power during the best dairy payouts ever. The road works you speak of have involved lots of new trucks and tarseal, worsening the balance of payments situation.
National has one big reason for being: never stated - but proof is being left in the stats: to increase inequality, increase profits for the already wealthy, and to minimise their tax obligations if at all possible. Any other little things that are done around the edges are like flak, while they get on with the main job.
Power bills: the fact remains that older hydro stations (long paid off) are producing power for 2-3c per kwHr, but we somehow need to pay nearly ten times that amount at a highest individual generation costing once it reaches our homes. The Bluff aluminium smelter will be paying well less than 10c per kWHr on average, possibly 7c or less. Gas has a similar huge markup.
Signed, local leftie nutter..
Eh! "Someone like Craic copied the post" What post?
I'll find it somewhere..
In the meantime there has been a new manufacturing survey produced, showing that manufacturing growth has..stalled over the last twelve months. It's declining a bit at the moment, to the end of June anyway.
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_...PJun15qtr.aspx
A strange report when you consider the promotional work from National.