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Yes well how appropriate.
Funding delay forces Canterbury council to ditch dangerous road upgrades
Three major Canterbury roading projects are being scrapped because of a lack of government funding, triggering fears delays to safety upgrades could put lives at risk.
Selwyn District Council gave the projects the green light after the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) indicated it would fund them to the tune of $5.6 million.
But that money has not come to fruition, meaning the work – including safety upgrades to one of the area’s most dangerous intersections – has to be pulled.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/113298259/funding-delay-forces-canterbury-council-to-ditch-dangerous-road-upgrades
So the fat little controllers aka as Robertson and Genter along with their delusional mate Twyford are already reneging on the money to make our roads safer.
When will they resign?
How many dead people does it take or will they just slow New Zealand to walking pace to keep their bicycles safe?
Good roads do not make you safe. You must not have been listening when they made cycles and slower traffic speeds a priority. As Angry Little said” what’s a little collateral damage” in a few more dead at these intersections
Don’t forget Genter calling us “car fascists” dont they just love their fellow Kiwis, i can understand Angry hating us after all he was a total failure until Jacinda rolled that stone on the 3rd day and walked from the cave into our lives but what have we ever to to Genter to make her hate us like she obviously does, maybe it’s a prerequisite to joining the Green Taliban they are a hateful bunch of turds at the best of times
On ya bike Genter, with the seat on this time.
Yes well more from Galloping Genter today. According to her lies more people want slower speeds on the roads.. I kid you not.
‘Huge majority’ of NZers would prefer lower speeds on some roads – Genter
Research shows the majority of New Zealanders would be “much more comfortable” driving at slower speeds on some roads, Associate Transport Minster Julie Anne Genter says.
A Transport Agency (NZTA) tool shows 87 percent of speed limits on New Zealand roads are higher than is safe.
An agency risk assessment tool, Mega Maps, suggests only 5 percent of the open road should have the current 100km/h speed limit. In most cases a speed of 60-80 km/h should apply, and in most urban areas 30-40 km/h would be appropriate.
Taupō mayor David Trewavas said yesterday he would welcome speed limits being dropped – there’s been some shocking multiple-fatality crashes in the region this year – but the National Party says a blanket lowering of the speed limit would put the brakes on the economy.
https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/152071-lsquohuge-majorityrsquo-of-nzers-would-prefer-lower-speeds-on-some-roads-genter.html?fbclid=IwAR3zWZiQ14c-eRTkFh3BrdcdGtImSXXclQRHKLZUxgEoQUUS3FmxRm33kRQ
From a govt. that has topped measuring most things we now have some research that flies in the face of reality and common sense. The place is run by fucking idiots.
“And would be quite happy to not be under pressure to drive at 100km/h on a road where clearly that is not a safe and appropriate speed.”
Well no one has to drive at that speed. It’s considered option on the part of the driver.
Very challenging to have confidence in NZTA, Minister or Associate Minister.
That fuel tax is taken from road users to fund non road matters such as Kiwi rail and public transport is a serious failure of integrity. The speed limit reduction proposals are a large indicator of ineptitude and failure of common sense.
That they failed to follow through an undertaking to fund a road project shows they cannot be trusted to perform and meet obligations. The “social license “ for NZTA to operate must surely be at risk as is the transport portfolios for both Minister Twyford and Associate Minister Genter.
The “social license “ for NZTA to operate must surely be at risk as is the transport portfolios for both Minister Twyford and Associate Minister Genter.
Have you been asleep for the past nineteen months? The CoL exemplifies running roughshod over any form of integrity. I don’t believe we’ve ever had a worse government in NZ…and they’re riding high in the polls, so they’re not going to change tact.
NZTA is a failed organisation. It is the Venezuela of the state service. Up and down the country their roading projects are a disaster, falling behind all their milestones. Communities are up in arms as they find that NZTA is lying to them or worse ducking and diving trying to avoid telling them what’s going on. Their disastrous CE
was firedstood down before Xmas, then three very senior board members all walked away at the end of January. The Chair of the board has just resigned and they’ve had to shoehorn in a couple of ultra-short term board appointments (just a few months duration) just so that the NZTA board has a quorum under their legislation!Of course, this utter chaos is no surprise when you see who is Minister of Transport (Phil Twyford).
But at the end of the day with a temp Chair, a temp CE and a cobbled together board. experienced staff leaving and institutional knowledge hemorrhaging you have to be worried about the probity and accuracy of anything that is coming out of NZTA at the moment.
And no surprise, of course the Ministry of Transport review of NZTA (which was supposed to be completed by March this year) has been delayed. The delay can only have been because there was nothing bad found at all …. #SARC
I predict a Royal Commission is going to be needed sometime in the future to unravel how utterly and royally fucked up NZTA is.
I’ve got a great way to reduce the road-toll – how about we bulldoze every single road or track in the country, outlaw all forms of vehicular transport and railroad a compulsory car buy-back scheme through Parliament – you know, for the feelz!
Streuth DP anyone with half a brain knows you are joking but im fairly sure this is how this coalition of losers form policy so be careful what you type m8, i have been thinking about the meme you use as your avatar might do a bit of photoshopping over the weekend im thinking Paddys beautiful mug on it with “got anymore of those white supremacist” for a laugh yes im easily amused, actually thinking about gollum has anyone heard how the great white (nazi) hunter is going i thought we would have had thousands being marched off to the gulags by now the way he was talking
Semi-automatic cars?
Unoccupied Christchurch quake home wrangle gets ministerial intervention.
Housing Minister Phil Twyford has stepped in to break a bureaucratic impasse preventing empty Christchurch homes being used for social housing.
Seventeen temporary houses in Linwood Park are vacant as more than 800 people in the city wait for a home – up from 340 in 2016 – and the Government spends hundreds of thousands of dollars each quarter on emergency grants to house people in motels.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/113294316/unoccupied-christchurch-quake-home-wrangle-gets-ministerial-intervention
Anyone with the time to OIA Twyford and find out how long ago he knew of these houses and why he didn’t act sooner.
Here’s a guess. He knew about them some time ago and did shit all till it hit the paper.
You would have a political nightmare getting them out when removal time came. All the sjw’s would be there protesting at the evictions.
Fixed term tenancies. Better still take the land off DOC. They don’t want it anyway. Gift it to the people wanting to look after the houses. It’s just not that hard. Well not for a non Govt. person.
I dont know if Twyfords ego would let him understand that Kiwibuild was going to be such a clusterfk i still dont think he comprehends what a mess he has made so i doubt he would have ever thought he was going to make developers rich or that Saint Jacinda wouldn’t have fixed all of our housing woes by now, such is the arrogance of this shyster
Normal parents don’t give “Stoner” as a middle name normally. Says a lot about how Twyford mishandles everything and is totally oblivious to his ministerial cockups. He still sounds like he is pontificating from the opposition benches, no awareness or apology emanating from that man.
I nsuspect that Twyford suffers from a mental condition that means he cannot remember last week. He simply appears to have no recollection of what he was going to do and at best all he can do is repeat the same phrases over and over. Bet you a pound to a pinch of gost shit he had a religious upbringing and is totally brain gazumped.
You will like tomorrow’s headline topic. Keep all these lies and post them. Let’s see how many you can remember. They aren’t called liarbour for nothing.
Goody, goody!
The first lie she told was in that awful debate where Bill English was set up by that piss poor excuse for a TV “personality – Gower. I will never tell a lie in Parliament or words to that effect she said. The first day in the house she then lied by saying she knew they had the numbers when at the time she didn’t and negotiated a bunch of extra questions for National. Am I incorrect?
Regarding the cartoon: it was the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B from the planet Golgafrincham.
Will always upvote a Hitchhikers Guide reference
“You’re all a bunch of raving bloody loonies!”
“Ah yes, that was the reason.”
Thank the Lord.
Veteran politician, activist and writer Sue Kedgley will bid farewell to her role with the Greater Wellington Regional Council this year and stand down from re-election.
“I feel I’ve done my bit,” said Kedgley, who believed it was time to bring new blood onto the council.
She said the time for millennials had come and their voices were needed around the table in politics.
Kedgley, 71, has worked in politics for the past 26 years, including 12 years as an MP for the Green Party and as a regional councillor since 2013.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/113296782/sue-kedgley-will-stand-down-from-regional-council-reelection
Wonder if she will take some of her other trough dwellers with her?
Knowing these troughers she will have some new gig lined up. They just cannot let it go.
Yes, she’s probably found a bigger trough to go to.
The GWRC must smell like a poorly kept old folks home.
The catering staff would have to get danger money.
Is there any old trougher there under 65?
They are smelly old lefties that have been in multiple troughs with a combined age of 7542.
Some are possibly dead already; it is just that nobody asked.
You would never put them on a boat.
The boat would lean so far left (to port) it would tip over, deep keel or not.
Next week’s Year 10 strike by the teachers union has been called off after the unions met with Chris Hipkins. No announcement will be made until next week on what Chippie put on the table to appease the militant teachers unions.
The first of many unbudgeted expenses and extra borrowing.
I heard a teacher of mature years on national radio saying he did not support the strike action as it was a problem for parents. Got the impression he was not alone with that view. He was not happy about the Unions approach.
Could be the members unrest made it a prudent action for the Union to ease of. I suspect that is the reason for holding strike action rather than the force of Minister Hipkins argument.
Over at KB someone said that the members got shafted by the union!
That’s normal. Unions typically just want to improve conditions…for the unions!
Where is Matt Mc Carten? these days?
Sure, chickens will eat skinks. They’ll eat mice too. They’ll happily eat practically anything and that includes native species. Let that be a potential warning.
(Chickens supply pest control to Great Barrier, eggs to City Mission)
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/chickens-supply-pest-control-to-great-barrier-eggs-to-city-mission/ar-AACtxgK?ocid=spartandhp
Note: they kept them in pens for the trial. I also like chickens and think they’re great but they’re not a panacea.
Dairy farmers are under threat of not having their milk collected by Fonterra after the implementation of new laws that allows the dairy giant to reject milk where farmers refuse to implement new climate change rules.
And this from reddit:
” One of the eye-catching provisions is that Fonterra will be required to supply Goodman Fielder +40% more milk at cost price (+10c/L higher than last year) so that it can compete more aggressively with Fonterra. This is a controversial decision as Goodman Fielder is half owned by the giant Singaporean conglomerate Wilmar International, the very same company responsible for the huge growth of the palm oil industry. That industry is directly responsible for huge clearings of rain-forest in Indonesia and Malaysia with controversial consequences. Supporting them with regulated supply priority over local alternatives is a curious signal to say the least. Beating up on dairy farmers for environmental reasons, and then turning around and giving cheap regulated access to a foreign company with links to environmental despoliation seem odd positions for any New Zealand government.”
Why do I sense the drunken dwarf behind this? Capitalism is dead comrades. Well at least here in NZ. I saw him say as much when he made his announcement when he selected his silly little girl as PM.
It is similar to how our energy sector was destroyed in Taranaki, so the production could move offshore with more pollution in manufacturing, shipping and the burning of coal to cover shortfalls.
They either have fingers in pies somewhere or they are just incapable of thinking further than 1 step ahead of them.
Not so odd really. Jacinda’s government of progtards will move heaven and Earth to f*ck up our country by what ever means possible.
Well the supply all the palm kernel that makes that fucking awful milk. Fonterra have been limiting it’s use.
The thing that strikes me is that they keep referring to ‘unpopular’ speech. But it isn’t just unpopular speech, it is popular speech, if ‘all’ who were national voters at the last election have similar views, for example, then who is to say that it is unpopular?
https://www.magic.co.nz/home/news/2019/04/david-seymour–now-more-than-ever-we-must-defend-free-speech.html
So The Green Party shouldn’t accept money from Greenpeace? Or will they say that they silo money donated by NZ’ers to Greenpeace. How do you test the ethnicity of money? Source? Ethnicity of donor, whether or not they are resident or citizen of NZ.
https://www.magic.co.nz/home/news/2019/06/golriz-ghahraman–defend-our-democracy-from-corrupting-money.html
No, no & no. It’s only big businesses or foreign interest groups that are the problem according to that menace to freedom, Golriz Ghahraman. Unions and Greenpeace (NZ) will be exempt in other words.
Golriz, meet Mr Pinochet. He is going to invite you onto his helicopter to “take a little trip” 🙂
‘unpopular’ code for anything that the militant lefties dont agree with like any right wing views cos ya know we are all literally hitler’s henchmen, isn’t it great to see Golly G defending more of our rights by wanting to change our laws that dont suit her ideology my guess is that the Green Taliban have become such a mess with Davidson & the rest of the muppet show activists that they dont see a lot of coin being donated for next year thus her attempts to stop large donations, bloody conniving shysters the lot of them
China is coming to stay in Wellington. Is it a statement?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/113271257/unique-1912-wellington-homes-to-be-bowled-for-chinese-embassy
So land must be being grossly undersold to Maori, if they can make a million dollars in 12 day flip?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/113273845/singleminute-deals-see-wellington-iwi-quickly-sell-millions-worth-of-land
Makes a mockery of their belief that all land is sacred. Bit like that Python song about the sperm
Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk
Thank you for the memories, great skit from Monty Python, they were so good.
Best comedians ever!
The what? lol
Monty Python appeals to me more now than when I was in my teens, I didn’t even watch it.
Somewhere around 4pm today we should know whether Britain’s Brexit party is a legitimate force or simply a protest vote.
The vote is important because it will show whether people can actually change their tribal allegiances when the dopey bastards they voted for let them down.
For the sake of democracy worldwide I hope it’s the former.
A very creditable performance by the Brexit Party. 683 votes in it. The election was won for Labour by the Islamist vote and the Postal Vote Party. A very serious lesson for New Zealand if there are any who can but see it.
Firearms incident being reported at Avonside Drive, Christchurch
Unfortunately there are always less deaths than shots fired. Gang-bangers are lousy shots. The more that don’t get back up the better, and saves us lots of $$$.
Not just ChCh but violence is definitely more a thing under this Government. ChCh does seem to feature a lot though.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/113300665/police-block-off-streets-after-reports-of-gunshots-in-east-christchurch
Is there a mosque in the area?
They have featured on only one day, as far as I am aware.
It can’t be true. Our criminals obey our weapon laws…or so the CoL & National would have us believe!
Its certainly not the place i lived in for 3 years in my early 20s the first big move in my life from Invers what a great city it was then im sure it still is for the most part but they do seem to have more than their fair share of problems up there especially post earthquake, you do have to wonder at the long term psychological damage to many of the residents that have had to endure the neverending issues that seem to plague the place
This is outrageous. Is this how Little wants to keep prison numbers down?
Road rage: Man who punched girl in face at Swanson BP station identified, warned – no charges laid
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12238056
As Ed stated above Chuck this is Littles view of his fellow Kiwis ” what’s a little collateral damage” this prick would rather a 14yr old girl get floored by some bloke than have him incarcerated just to make his fkn numbers look good, pathetic vile wee man no wonder his Mum won’t even vote for him
Time to call the Godfather. “I want him legless”.
I wonder what this paedophile would get in NZ.
‘Very rare’: The reason Melbourne jihadi Momena Shoma was jailed for 42 years
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12238129
Two rounds of golf with the judge?
paedophile = paedophile worshiper
I wonder why Jacinda’s father isn’t interviewed on his daughter’s views, Simon Bridges’ mother was.
I see that he is still a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ardern
I went looking for her comments on ANZAC Day and her relatives that had served in the forces.
As far as the media are concerned, Ardern was immaculately conceived. Ergo, it’s redundant asking what her father believes.
How is D-Day of lesser value?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/04/anzac-day-2019-jacinda-ardern-calls-for-peace.html
You mean she’s taken freedom, democracy and peace for granted?
“Let us recommit to those simple values of freedom, democracy and peace.
“Just as we have never taken for granted the loss of life by those who served on our behalf, so too must we never take for granted these principles.”
Interesting comments by Mike Hosking this morning. He was discussing Mathew Hootons article in the Herald and making his own observations concerning Robbo.
Has our Minister of Finance been telling porkies concerning the budget leak ?
In the event Robbo being found wanting and having to stand down this will result in a major reshuffle or at the very least cause further credibility problems for the Govt.
The house of cards is collapsing.
This has made my day….
He won’t be made to stand down. With the media not covering it, why would he be made to? Who would replace him?
The media have got their orders. No coeverage or you can’t push the baby!
I heard on Magic Radio with Peter Williams and Rodney Hyde this morning that the head of the GCSB phoned Little, Minister of Justice to inform him that Gabriel Makelof of Treasury had been told “it was NOT a hack” but he was going ahead with informing the news media interview anyway.
Did Little attempt to prevent the blatant lie to the media, or not???
Little doesn’t like Robbo. So no, he did not!
I was thinking about Free Speech, I have always been outspoken, at University i was more than outspoken lol and probably got my degrees despite myself, it certainly wasn’t because I was PC.
Perhaps that is why I feel so strongly about it losing it, there will be some today, who have never spoken out against anything much, so they might not notice its loss until it is gone.
It is vital that it is protected for all, even if all do not think that there would be a loss.
Now that is entitlement.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz//lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12236916&ref=clavis
Dunno. We’re only hearing half the story. For all I know, the “plonker” kept buying her drinks because she was indicating she was going to go home with him if he kept the booze flowing. Thus it might have been a broken verbal contract.
Cute girl! If that loser had been a gentlemen and asked her out again, he just may have got some after all 🙂
What do you know? Ardern has finally admitted what we knew all along. The CoL got rid of Charter Schools and National Standards because the Unions demanded it (hat tip DPF).
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2440325992698801&id=154331724631584&anchor_composer=false
Warmed-up, stale 1970’s leftovers is all this Col can do. Marxist, union boot-lickers and nothing less. They must go!
Those pesky criminals using firearms:
1 Man dead at Kawhia and 3 arrested and hospitalised.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12238260&ref=rss
It can’t be true. The CoL & National have assured us recently with the changes to the Firearms laws that our criminals obey the law.
Reported today it was a disagreement over meth.
In other words scumbags eating their own! Ha ha suckers!
Burglars got shot YESSS!!! Happiest story of the week. I still say there should be four deaths, not just one. Upgrade to a higher caliber next time, and maybe try incendiary rounds lol.
You’re lucky not to have a firearm pointed at you if you venture out to Kawhia these days apparently. The ‘locals’ are territorial. I’m sure they will all be handing in their guns to the local copper. Lol.
My bach is there, the locals are fine, Hauturu is 20 mins away.
Unless you are surfing somewhere that you shouldn’t be. I forgot about that.
…..”the locals are fine”…..
On benefit day it’s probably like Deliverance without the music! 🙂
I dislike Ardern beacsue
She stopped Oil and Gas in Taranaki with no debate or discussion or mandate
She banned plastic bags -ditto
She wears a Hijab to suck up to muslims who are no our brothers.
She did not respect our servicemen.
We have a left wing government solely because of her appeal to bludgers and lefties and socialists.
But look Taranaki has become innovative just thanks to Jacinda, not.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/06/the-kiwi-town-making-roads-out-of-plastic.html
Great…
What happens to the plas-mix when it comes to the end of it’s life?
Is another layer laid on top….or is the layer dug up (as happens now with roads) and discarded?
You lot did very well yesterday 151 coments yesterday! A choclate fish to each and everyone!
This is a good site and I am glad I found it. I hope it grows and grows but I would encourage you all to take a look at the UK’s equivalent site
https://going-postal.com/2019/06/going-postal-with-question-time-6-june/
where 151 comments usually takes about the time it takes to drink a small cup of coffee . Something to aim for 🙂
Did you see that in Taranaki, that someone setup in oppo to lime scooters and 4 have been chucked in the tide, because the walkway follows the coast. Maybe people get pissed of with the shit all over the walkway and biff them! Some broke in half as well (faceplant) it would prove intersting with litium batteries in the tide. Would the owners be chased for enviromental damage due to underwater fires?
Given that the thieving class clout down on anything not nailed down & much that is I’ve often wondered what the loss rate is. The fact that they’re locatable by GPS wouldn’t stop them being stripped of useful parts or otherwise vandalised.
Good stuff here from Avi Yemeni on the shooting in Darwin a couple of days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67njuX-gwTQ
10 new District Court judges upped to 170 at a cost of $154m over four years. There is a growing workload and the current 160 judges were swamped with work. Andrew Little says it paves the way for even more judges to be appointed after a report is to be released in August.
Not long after the new priest had been ordained he went to the bishop & made a complete confession.
“I’ve given in to temptation and performed a completely disgusting act on one of the choir boys !”
“Don’t say any more,” said the bishop, “This is not the time or place for this.”
“You’re right,” replied the priest, “I’ll turn myself into the police at once.”
“The police… heavens no !” he laughed, “I meant save it for Friday Night… We all meet at Flanagan’s to swap stories like this !”
The ultimate limit of human endurance has been worked out by scientists.
Turns out it’s sitting through the box set of Mrs Brown’s Boys.
Cross the Rubicon has a new video up. I’m surprised You Tube haven’t banned him yet, only a matter of time I guess. I don’t like his format much all this wandering about and often poor quality sound but a lot of what he says makes (rather long winded) sense. He’s a local, Christchurch, poster so we should support his efforts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHZeUNeGUC8
Thanks for posting WM.
The United Nations puppet, ooops, sorry, I mean the Prime Minister, doesn’t want the NZ taxpayer to know how much money the government is going to waste on the gun “buy back” which will not make any of us any safer. No Sir, she does not!
https://kiwigunblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/06/prime-minister-dodges-buyback-questions/
Interesting point in the comments from “Joss.”
Col not popular with this group either. The more people Cindy and co piss off with their over the next year the better for a positive election result!
Just want to vent once again about AT. Nothing specific, I just fucking hate them. That’s all.
And NZTA (under the COL)
Susan Edmunds is a moron.
Edmunds has written an article in Stuff that is moronic.
Hence, it is fair to call her a moron.
These media people call other people all sorts of names eg Lauren Southern a ‘right winger’ when Southern is largely an investigative journalist who gets out from behind a keyboard and , well, I can’t put it more simply, investigates.
Yeah, I know, right!
Edmunds has written this:-
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/113274303/heres-how-the-new-zealand-tax-system-really-works
some moronic extracts.
Surgeon General’s warning (nah, it’s my warning, that just sounded important!)
Extract:
“The first $14,000 you earn is taxed at 10.5 per cent, then the next bit at 17.5 per cent and so on. Only the bit you earn over $70,000 is taxed at 33 per cent.
This means someone earning $75,000 pays $15,670 a year in tax.
The thing with marginal tax rates, though, is that when you get near a higher tax bracket, >> there’s not a lot of incentive to move up <>As seen in: Stuff.co.nz, Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, Business Insider Australia, Illawarra Mercury, Shoalhaven & Nowra News, Narooma News, Bay Post / Moruya Examiner, Kiama Independent, The Advertiser Lake Times
Edmunds has a book coming out in September called
‘Mummy Needs a Break’
https://www.wheelers.co.nz/books/9780008316099-mummy-needs-a-break/?author=Edmunds%2C+Susan
It sounds like it as written as a farce.
There is no change in her writing style then!
The next section is a whinge that if you get off your butt and get a pay rise you could lose WFF and other entitlements.
So sad.
Then there is more erroneous crap not worth reading.
The comments section pulls her up on this. It won’t last long.
I suspect when Edmunds was born she was held by the ankle and dipped in pure communism.
The only way capitalism and common sense could get through now is via her ankle.
Feel the heel.
Ok. I laid it on a bit thick but hey these are the morons that tell us that globby warming is settled science and there is no room for another viewpoint.
…then they present ‘Stuff’ that is erroneous gobbledegook (is that racist, I’ll text Golriz ?)
If you are going to say something is ‘beyond reproach’ then it helps if you have credibility across the board so the punter does not have to try to work out what is correct and what is moronic crap.
The next section is a whinge that if you get off your butt and get a pay rise you could lose WFF and other entitlements.
So sad.
Why should she expect the taxpayer to pay for her family all the time. You have the kids, you pay for them.
The sense of entitlement in her comment is mind blowing.
This comment had a large part chopped out of the middle
The essential part was
Well, how to dissect this?
She has no idea. This is all mixed up.
Pure tax on $75,000 is $15,670 but also there is $1,088 in ACC making it $16,758 minimum deduction.
There is no mention of this.
There is no clarification that there may be a deduction for student loans , Kiwisaver, or child support.
This should at least be mentioned as some people might be bailing up their employer for over-deduction.
Now the example she gives of $69,000 being $1044.63 per week net has Income tax plus ACC deducted.
Being a moron she won’t understand that she has mixed this up.
Adding to her esteemed ??? scribbling, she implies you should not get a pay rise because you only get to keep 67% of this.
I thought these commies wanted Rich Pricks to pay through the nose!
For approx $60 per week pay rise you get to keep $40. This is bad to a commie.
It perhaps should all go to the Glorious Party to help Comrade cousies on the couch.
Now let’s all sing ‘the Red Flag’
Little does she know that 35 years ago you PAID 66% marginal income tax in the top bracket.
You still got to keep 34%.
then ..
Now if it is so bad to get a pay rise, perhaps she could ask the Govt to form a Working Group to discuss why the Minimum wage was just raised by $1.20 per hour (7%) if one is not better off with a pay rise.
Own goal
Then it jumps to the not very important publications she worked for.
Illawarra this, Kiama that.
She has a BA in history with a Diploma in Churnalism.
No actual experience in commerce or industry.
but as Ed says, Miss not-so-bright its mean if you take away benefits after a pay rise.
There are errors where she says there is Capital Gains tax for selling a house within 5 years.
Technically it is treated as ‘trading stock’ and becomes taxable under that premise.
These are your Churnalists, today!
Yep, the entitlement, dimness and expectation of handouts is for all to see.
So sad.
Oh dear! The ducks arse is going to swollow his bike shorts. Went to WO and there was a post in backchat of Cindy and Jethro at the new navy ship launch. There was a picture of their baby Never there all done up looking cute in full frontal smiling like crazy! The kid likes the camera already! Someone is going to get a rev by the duck and will no longer be allowed to push the baby!
Yep, they made the TVNZ news tonight. Kid is cute. Shame about her parents.
It was all designed to make the product more desirable, by banning it. Same as a certain manifesto.
Good news?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz//nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12237833&ref=clavis
Well I have just come back from a stonking big car crash on Dominion Rd
Outside the Davis funeral home opposite the ‘Gas’ Station/old Nosh now Farro.
Four cars
One is completely munted with the roof on the footpath.
It has gone beyond a convertible.
Some bugger was going at a hell of speed.
Way beyond 50 km/hr
Appears nine injured, 2 seriously.
Dropping the speed limit to .. whatever.. is not going to stop these mindless idiots.
NZTA want to distract from their massive incompetence by deflection but these things will happen.
Normal distribution curve says there will always be complete idiots at several standard deviations out.
If you haven’t had your ‘flu shot you probably aren’t going to get one unless you’re a child, pregnant or elderly.
Seems we’re suffering from Old Mother Hubbard syndrome:
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/dr-nikki-turner-nz-facing-flu-vaccine-shortage-as-illness-surges/
I listened to the interview with Dr Nikki Turner waiting expectantly for those reassuring words “Don’t worry, we’ve got some more on the way” but nup.
There’s always next year.
Like so many things to do with health in Godzone we’re a day late and a dollar short.