It had to happen, Bidens made an absolute fool of himself addressing the US coastguard academy, LMFAO.

Morning kids. Budget day.
Gawd. I hate to think what will
be in it. I’ll work 48 hours today
so the creature can have enough to
spend on her wedding. Anyway, have a great
day, and marvel at the stupidity of this government.

Applying Lessons of History Helps a Nation to Avoid Past Mistakes: Founder of The Sons of History
By Ella Kietlinska
May 19, 2021 Updated: May 19, 2021
A nation should learn from all the good and bad experiences of its ancestors and from other nations’ histories to avoid making the same mistakes that others did, said Dustin Bass, founder of The Sons of History.

People have human nature, and what happened 10, 100, or 1,000 years ago can and still happens today because people have the same emotions and tendencies they’ve always had, the founders explained on the organization’s website.

If people get rid of their history, get rid of all lessons—wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of their ancestors—they will have to rely on the guiding hand of a few individuals in the government who promised to protect and take care of the rest–and it is dangerous, Bass said on Epoch Times’ Crossroads program.

Wiping out history can be compared to a state where a person wakes up in the morning without any prior memory of “where the coffee pot is, where the groceries are … [and] how to cook,” Bass said. Being in such a state “you have to have somebody do everything for you–that’s a real danger,” he added.

“It is [also] equivalent to disregarding your parents as fools,” Bass said explaining that if children do not listen to their parents and figure out everything on their own from scratch they are going to make all the mistakes that they could have avoided had they just listened.

On the scale of a nation, it will “make the same mistakes that all these nations have made in their past … either out of fear, out of distrust, out of want, out of poor economic decisions,” and it will suffer all the consequences of those mistakes, Bass continued.

“We should learn all the good and all the bad that we’ve committed, that other nations have committed, and learn from those. And [learn] how did that happen,” Bass said, adding that we have to learn because Nazi Germany didn’t just happen or communist Russia or communist China didn’t just happen?

“It is the same [as] with our personal history. If we decide we are just going to disregard all of those stories, we do a great disservice to us,” Bass said.

More@ https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/applying-lessons-of-history-helps-a-nation-to-avoid-past-mistakes-founder-of-the-sons-of-history_3821100.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email2&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-05-19-1&mktids=3105569a7cb6d1104e1cb849a9f8a20b&est=mzz7rZ01qqr0DHcMN9GXF9Eli1gFM0EJq4U46p6bevrTnEw4C5kLuA8bf5eI5dQ%3D

Post it all around your FB etc.

and consider what thepeoples representatives did yesterday when they hrridly changed our Med safe Laws to allow them to experiment on all our population.

A nun and a priest were crossing the Sahara Desert on a camel. On the third day out, the camel suddenly dropped dead without warning:
After dusting themselves off, the Nun and the Priest surveyed their situation. After a long period of silence, the Priest spoke.
“Well, Sister, this looks pretty grim.”
“I know Father. In fact, I don’t think it likely that we can survive more than a day or two.”
“I agree.” Says the Father. “Sister, since we are unlikely to make it out of here alive, would you do something for me?”
“Anything, Father.”
“I have never seen a woman’s breasts and I was wondering if I might see yours.”
“Well, under the circumstances I don’t see that it would do any harm.”
The nun opened her habit and the Priest enjoyed the sight of her shapely breasts, commenting frequently on their beauty.
“Sister, would you mind if I touched them?” She consented and he Fondled them for several minutes.
“Father, could I ask something of you?”
“Yes, Sister?”
“I have never seen a man’s appendage. Could I see yours?”
“I suppose that would be OK.” The Priest replied lifting his robe.
“Oh Father, may I touch it?”
The priest consented and after a few minutes of fondling he was sporting a huge erection.
“Sister, did you know, that if I insert my appendage in the right place, it can give life?”
“Is that true Father?”
“Yes, it is, Sister.”
“Oh Father, that’s wonderful. Stick it in the camel and let’s get the hell out of here!” 😂

https://scontent.fhlz3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/187043388_3985517778195381_4358319187611383523_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=3ROMOJBcNNMAX-h5dC2&_nc_ht=scontent.fhlz3-1.fna&oh=1f949acd561095de63e19fefec549033&oe=60CA9D48

Well chippies all over the place with his statements isnt he.

Every few days it changes, so far hes claimed theyre on target, ahead of target, fallen behind, slower then expected, we can stay on target and now “its success is up to kiwis” 
Wtf we the people arent implementing or fucking up the rollout,  thats on you cindy and bloomfailed.  Imo its a defeatist statement and he knows theyre fucked so starting the blame game now.

Get fucked, hurry along and jab the team of 3.5million, the team of 1.5million will be the control group so dont blame us for your failure.

Who in the fuck do newshub survey in their polls?
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/poll-shows-kiwis-are-on-board-with-expected-benefit-increase-in-budget-2021/ar-BB1gTxDt

Its becoming clear theyre manufactured to fit a narrative handed to them by ardern and co,  its a safe bet they have a long list of shills and hardcore labour supporters and they poll the same ones everytime.

Newshub polls credibility rank lower then judith collins as preferred PM.

I was in Takanini yesterday morning, and got stopped at the level crossing. The Hamiltion train, Te Huia, came through. I was right up against the barrier, so had a front row seat, and I didn’t see a single person in any carriage. What a friggin lemon.

National says it’s ironic ‘Prisoners’ in our Country vaccinated before frontline Police Officers.
“I am advised that as of at the 11th of May 2021, 79 people in our prisons have recieved their first Covid-19 vaccination dose” “Corrections MinisterKelvin Davis replied.
So its obvious that Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins , Andrew Little and the Corrections Minister value criminals lives ahead of essential New Zealand work force and individuals that have put the lives into making New Zealand a better place to live.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/05/national-says-it-s-ironic-prisoners-being-vaccinated-before-frontline-cops.html
This Government is putting peoples lives at risk with stupid ideology on keeping criminals out of prison and the separatism of race at the cost of many that have given their lives to make this better for those that follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0uIH5HHQ

The Jam “That’s Entertainment”

Newshub say 54% support a rise in benefits according to their Reid Research Poll. How do they reconcile that with the AM show poll currently running at 67% NO, 33% YES?
I suggest RR poll is utter crap or the socialists have not got out of bed yet.

A young guy from North Dakota moves to Florida and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.
The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?” The kid says “Yeah. I was a vacuum salesman back in North Dakota .”
Well, the boss was unsure, but he liked the kid and figured he’d give him a shot, so he gave him the job.
“You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did.”
His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down to the sales floor.
“How many customers bought something from you today son?”
The kid frowns and looks at the floor and mutters, “One”.
The boss says “Just one?!!? Our sales people average sales to 20 to 30 customers a day.
That will have to change, and soon, if you’d like to continue your employment here. We have very strict standards for our sales force here in Florida.
One sale a day might have been acceptable in North Dakota , but you’re not on the farm anymore, son.”
The kid took his beating, but continued to look at his shoes, so the boss felt kinda bad for chewing him out on his first day.
He asked (semi-sarcastically), “So, how much was your one sale for?”
The kid looks up at his boss and says “$101,237.65″.
The boss, astonished, says $101,237.65?!? What the heck did you sell?”
The kid says, “Well, first, I sold him some new fish hooks. Then I sold him a new fishing rod to go with his new hooks. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that Ford 4×4 Expedition.”

The boss said “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and a TRUCK!?”
The kid said “No, the guy came in here to buy tampons for his wife, and I said, ‘Dude, your weekend’s shot, you should go fishing………

Today’s weather forecast for Wellington: Increasing hot air throughout the day followed by increasing showers of bullshit around 2pm, slowly spreading to the rest of the country during the afternoon. A severe cold snap will be experienced by the few net tax payers left. Beneficiaries however will experience a period of warm settled weather with gentle breezes of kindness emanating from dear leaders nether regions.

The tide is turning on woke culture. Consumers say no to woke business putting politics over customers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9FjHJOjRdA
Woke’ companies face backlash for getting political

Douglas Murray, author of ‘The Madness of Crowds,’ says companies get involved in politics to ‘cover over’ more concerning issues.

Growing Tsunami of suing Big Tech called TECHLASH for censoring the voice of conservatives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQFCS2-4sEA
Steven Crowder SUES YouTube for CENSORSHIP as Worldwide TECHLASH Has Just Begun!!!
Steve Turley

No wonder so many people are suffering serious side effects.

BOMBSHELL: Connecticut govt. secretly tells health care workers covid vaccines are DEADLY, but withholds the same information from the public
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-05-18-connecticut-govt-secretly-tells-health-care-workers-covid-vaccines-are-deadly.html#

Also Info Wars video here:
https://banned.video/watch?id=60a524572dc8c73727232894

Listen also to the latest Delingpod:
https://delingpole.podbean.com/

Duncan Garner – Budget 2021: Beneficiaries, emergency housing occupants likely to be today’s winners
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/05/duncan-garner-budget-2021-beneficiaries-emergency-housing-occupants-likely-to-be-today-s-winners.html

So the losers end up paying more tax, that’s already been announced – and you know who you are, because this Government sees you as winners in life anyway, so pay up. Thanks. How dare you succeed.

Off to Christchurch tomorrow on the way for an up to a month or two holiday in the North Island, mainly up around the East Coast. Up around Gisborne, the only city in New Zealand I haven’t been to and then drifting slowly around the Coromandel. The overnight lows seem to be about the same as our highs down here. Hope our old white camper van with our old white inhabitants can move around without meeting any road blocks or hassles. Looking forward to seeing some or our native species in their natural environment.

A Budget is a Government’s set of priorities – money in, money out. Winners and losers.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/05/duncan-garner-budget-2021-beneficiaries-emergency-housing-occupants-likely-to-be-today-s-winners.html

So the losers end up paying more tax, that’s already been announced – and you know who you are, because this Government sees you as winners in life anyway, so pay up. Thanks. How dare you succeed.

So many benefits for employees, what about the employers wellbeing?

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/bill-increase-sick-leave-five-days-10-passes?auto=6255073794001
A bill that doubles the amount of employer funded sick leave from five to 10 days passed its third and final reading in Parliament yesterday.

Confirmation that COVID-19 has not been a major killer in the USA. After quietly reporting late last year that 94% of deaths involved co-morbidities, the CDC has now reported that as at 16 May the total USA deaths during the pandemic have been:

Influenza & Pneumonia – 45.9% (262,174 deaths)
Hypertension – 19.7% (112,524 deaths)
Diabetes – 16.0% (91,277 deaths)
Alzheimer and other dementias – 13.4% (76,334 deaths)
Sepsis – 9.6% (54,715 deaths)
The CDC notes “There were co-morbidities listed on the death certificates for as many as 95% of all COVID-19 deaths. The other 5% of death certificates in which COVID-19 was the only condition listed was likely related to a lack of detail about other conditions present at the time of death.”

The Note is interesting – it suggests that even less than 5% of all deaths were solely due to COVID.

I don’t think any NZ media outline will take note of the official CDC figures – if the media even know where to look.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm

Any reports on how much Robberson is going to steal today?

Whaaat?

Review of the Kia Sorento Premium

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/125119259/road-test-review-kia-sorento-premium-phev

Kia Sorento Plug-In Hybrid AWD Premium
Base price: $89,990
Powertrain and economy: 1.6-litre turbo-petrol inline four plus electric motor, 195kW/350Nm (combined), 6-speed automatic, AWD, combined economy 1.6L/100km, CO2 37g/km

Yes, I’ll bet 1.6 l/100 km in perfect conditions.

“The set-up for the Sorento PHEV is pretty simple – it adds an electric motor between the engine and the transmission which is powerful enough to drive the SUV by itself.
Kia’s 1.6-litre makes 132kW ”

It is a plug-in hybrid.
Not fed from the motor.

Here is the clanger. Ta da :-
‘Paired with a 13.8kWh battery means the PHEV can drive on electric power for “up to 57km”,
Kia says, although this is closer to 47 in reality.’

So for $90 Thousand Base Price you can go from the Akl Harbour Bridge to maybe the bottom of the Bombay hills .
You Cambridge people could get to Putararu on electric but you southerners could not get from Invercargill to Gore.

Get out of here.
I have a perfectly good Kia on petrol that cost a third of that new and does 6.8 litres/100km Akl to Tokoroa then
Tokoroa to Taihape at 8 L/100 km with the hills and windy bits, then it settles to 6.9 l/100 km to Wellington (From Levin you are lucky to get above 50 km/hr.)

Plug in electric. Seems a dreadful waste to me.

The gaslighting continues.
Media.
They start on a story then ramp it up each version so after 4 days it is removed from reality.

I was at ground zero in 2007 the case of Folole Muliaga who was a massively obese Samoan woman (should never have been let into the country a year or two before) when the power was turned off for the family not paying the power bill, and telling fibs.
Seven warnings.
The fatty never even told her own family about the ventilator; not her son, not her husband. They did not know what it was.
They were straight out of the bush.
Nonetheless the media filth – especially the Herald pricks were around harassing DHB staff where I was working at the time.
To this day I regret not giving a media fuckwit a visit to a DHB facility.

Media lie and exaggerate.
In the case of the Christchurch garden on day 2 the story has left reality.

The ‘Senior’ Repeater is on a roll.
On Day 2 there is no mention that notice was given in December 2019 and was delayed by Level 4 /3 Lockdown in April 2020.
Notice was given on 18 April 2021 but not clearly communicated. That is all.
Does Mrs Wang even speak English, if notice was given?
The garden is still there, just smaller.

So this is what happens. The media start with a core of truth then evolve into controlling the story then just making shit up.

This is how wars start. Literally.
If you follow what happened in 1990 as I did when advised by my uncle to watch carefully.
Gulf War. The story was built up and up to make Iraq look bad.
30 years later the yanks are still there using it as a weapons test ground and training troops for a war hungry nation.

Actual history.
Britain Offered the Kuwait territory to Iraq in 1919 the Treaty of Versailles (one of the worst documents in history, British evil at its worst) then the Brits reneged.
Britain lied.
Then after Iraq had fought an eight year war against Iran – who had embarrassed the shit out of USA in 1979/1980 the Yanks said in 1988 yeah sure pal, you can have Kuwait.
Then the scabby Brits got involved and called it off, after the troops had gone in as sanctioned by the USA.
The yanks never openly admitted they said Iraq could go into Kuwait – which they in fact did (just like they never admitted for years about killing 290 civilians on Iran Air 655 ) but then started a propaganda campaign against Iraq using media scum.

Just like in 2007 and the Folole Muliaga where everyone got involved after the media filth gaslighted to sell a ‘story’ including the Mayor , Helen Clark as PM, the whole nine yards..
..and now …. the Christchurch council right to the janitor’s wife are going all Uriah Heep in cloying apologies over this fake gnews shit.

this is the power of the media
Remember that.
They are evil.
They are your enemy.
Question everything.

A woman stopped by, unannounced, at her son’s house. She knocked on the door then immediately walked in.
She was shocked to see her daughter-in-law lying on the couch, totally naked. Soft music was playing, and the aroma of perfume filled the room.
“What are you doing?!” she asked.
“I’m waiting for Mike to come home from work,” the daughter-in- law answered.”
“But you’re naked!” the mother-in-law exclaimed.
“This is my love dress,” the daughter-in-law explained.
“Love dress? But you’re naked!”
“Mike loves me and wants me to wear this dress,” she explained.” It excites him to no end. Every time he sees me in this dress, he instantly becomes romantic and ravages me for hours on end. He can’t get enough of me”
The mother-in-law left.
When she got home, she undressed, showered, put on her best perfume, dimmed the lights, put on a romantic CD, and lay on the couch, waiting for her husband nasska to arrive. Finally, he came home. He walked in and saw her lying there so provocatively.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
“This is my love dress,” she whispered sensually.
“Needs ironing,” he said. “What’s for dinner?
He never heard the gunshot.

The use of a controversial sanction against beneficiaries has exploded under the Labour Government, despite Jacinda Ardern raging against the punishment while in Opposition, with the surge hitting Māori children hard.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/use-court-sanction-against-beneficiaries-explodes-under-labour-despite-ardern-raging-in-2013?auto=6254944307001

Everyone deserves their day in court, but if you don’t turn up and are on a benefit, that benefit gets slashed.

“Beneficiaries have the right to be treated equally to all other citizens in this country. This is a sanction that is deliberately aimed at the most vulnerable people in our communities and it punishes their children,” AUT dean of law Khylee Quince said.

Two years ago, experts told the Government to dump the sanction. Instead, its use is up 75 per cent, with 4300 people hit last year.

You’ve either got the room or you haven’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJJOgEf4Mmc
Reagan, 77 years old, vs Biden, 78 years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCj0DCzzutE
Maricopa County Duplicate Ballots Do Not Have Matching Original Ballots

The CEO of Cyber Ninjas doubled down on his findings that the ballot count on record – in Maricopa County – does not match the physical count of the ballots. He then took it one step further.

Doug Logan, whose company works with some of the largest names in the financial services sector, the Government sector and also evaluated the systems in Antrim County made the comments during the State Senate hearing.

He said that the Maricopa Board of Supervisors were incorrect in their assertion that his company misread the early voting transmittal sheets and didn’t account for the duplicate ballots, which is why they say the totals are different.

Logan, however, said those duplicate ballots were taken into account and it’s the batches of ballots that do not have duplicates on record that are in fact not matching up.

“In the boxes, they have early voting transmittal sheets that give the counts that are supposed to be in any given batch. The county said the numbers don’t match because we didn’t take into account the duplicates. Duplicate ballots occur when a machine can’t count ballot. The early voting transmittal sheets have a section on the bottom that are to be filled out if duplicates are used. The ballots with non matching numbers do not have anything written or recorded at the bottom area which would indicated duplicates in that batch. We took into account the duplicates and the county did not explain why the sheets do not match the number of ballots in the boxes. We gave them some specific boxes with mismatched numbers. Those batches did not indicate or have a record of duplicates. An explanation is still needed for why ballot counts in batches do not match records where duplicates were not used.”

Logan said that duplicate ballots are created when the original ballot is damaged and cant be run through the system.

In addition, according to the former Secretary of State and current Audit Director Ken Bennett, each duplicate ballot must have a 6 digit serial number printed on it that matches a 6 digit serial number printed on the original damaged ballot that it corresponds to. However, Bennett said they can’t find the original ballots that match up to the duplicated ballots.

“We are finding a 6 digit serial number on the duplicate ballots but we are not finding a corresponding serial number on the original ballot or the ballot needed to be duplicated. I was so surprised to find this I brought people from both parties to witness that we are running into batch after batch after batch that do not have serial numbers. They should match one for one. The original to the duplicated ballot. Anyone should be able to audit and see that the votes off the damaged ballots have a true duplicate copy. I will send a question over to the county – they have made it clear to me that they will not interact directly with the auditors – so as the liaison I will ask them about the different number of duplicate ballots to damaged ballots. How to we match duplicates to damaged ballots if there are no serial numbers on damaged ballots?”

Bennett said the ballots should match up to the total number of ballots as a whole

UPDATED 8:21 AM WEDNESDAY — Connecticut Publishes Moderna COVID Vax Ingredients: DEADLY POISON “SM-102 – Not for Human or Veterinary Use”

Chloroform is the solution used with the SM-102 and Chloroform has been outlawed for use by consumers for decades.

The reason Chloroform is outlawed for use by consumers has to do with how long it stays in a human body and what it does to a human body while it’s inside. The Half-Life of Chloroform is 180 days. That means that it takes half a YEAR for only HALF of the chloroform, to be exited out of the body. You with me so far?

Chloroform, like any other chemical, breaks down. And when it comes into contact with oxygen, it breaks down into . . . . wait for it . . . . Phosgene Gas.

Phosgene gas is fatal to humans in concentrations as low as seven parts per million (7ppm).

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-urgent-connecticut-publishes-moderna-covid-vax-ingredients-deadly-poison-sm-102-not-for-human-or-veterinary-use

China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy
A cyber yuan stands to give Beijing power to track spending in real time, plus money that isn’t linked to the dollar-dominated global financial system

Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin have foreshadowed a potential digital future for money, though they exist outside the traditional global financial system and aren’t legal tender like cash issued by governments.
China’s version of a digital currency is controlled by its central bank, which will issue the new electronic money. It is expected to give China’s government vast new tools to monitor both its economy and its people. By design, the digital yuan will negate one of bitcoin’s major draws: anonymity for the user.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-creates-its-own-digital-currency-a-first-for-major-economy-11617634118

Hate Speech arrest today…. for asking someone where they were from.

I do this regularly and have never had a problem. Obviously Hate Speech is in the ear of the beholder.

W.A.L.O.S.

Last time Hunty was in Thailand three beautiful girls invited him to their hotel room promising him an experience similar to winning the lottery.

They were right too. Six matching balls.

The lenghs they will go to, to try to make Biden look normal !!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/wow-biden-caught-fake-driving-someone-else-steering-vehicle-stunt-video-pics/

Newshub was saying the other day that most people thought a benefit increase was a good idea. Today the had that as question of the day, at about 8:30 it was running at 80 / 20 in favour of giving them nothing. Now it’s vanished completely from the site. Newshub busted lying twice in the last few days, at this rate they’ll catch up with Cindy in a few years.

Have we started excepting people from India?
Why one person via Qatar!

Drum roll please. We all ready for the Bludget?

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

I think of the RMA, Council bylaws regarding waste collection and disposal, the massive cost of hooplah and fanfare for a dithering so called leader when visiting Kindy’s and her stick drawing auctions.
Powerlines and poles in dis-repair. Poverdy, queers with power, pink haired lab techies, Tiny, tiny houses somehow being an attractive option for a home, rustling up a batch of cicada morsels for your favourite guests, etc….Basically, small ideas from small brains.

Why?

Well, not that any of these people new how to smile, (photo 20. Obviously head over heels for each other. A handshake to prove it)

But..my god, the magnificence, scale, craftsmanship and short time to build this extraordinary Trade Expo shows how backward we have become.

Photos of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/09/the-1904-st-louis-worlds-fair-photos/597658/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase_Exposition

Tax payers union

Dear Supporter,
We’re just out of the Budget 2021 lock up, where your humble taxpayer advocates and analysts have spent the morning working through the Budget papers.
I’m afraid to tell you that from a taxpayer perspective there are no redeeming features of this Budget. It represents a major shift of the economic dial to the left by rejigging the tax and transfer system strongly towards those not in employment.
And there’s yet another broken promise. As predicted by the Taxpayers’ Union, Grant Robertson’s ‘no new taxes’ promise is out the window. He’s foreshadowed a new Unemployment Insurance Tax – to operate like ACC, where unemployed will get 80% (that’s not a typo) of their income if they lose their job.
The Government’s spin is that this is the ‘Recovery Budget’ but the sole economic plan is to hike benefits. There is no reference to productivity in the material we’ve seen, and the only help for business is an expansion of an initiative for MBIE bureaucrats to teach businesspeople how to sell things on the internet.
Labour is out of control
Despite significant improvement in the economic and fiscal outlook, Grant Robertson has decided we are now in a permanent emergency.
• Benefit increases pushed through last year as part of our “Covid Response” have been entrenched and expanded – even while unemployment is forecast to fall. The cost of this amounts to $3.3 billion or $1822.22 per household.
• The “Covid Recovery Fund” has been raided for all and sundry poor-quality spending. Here’s a small(ish) example: $527 million is being used to expand the rollout of so-called “free school lunches”. Strangely, this measure is not only linked to COVID, it is also justified in the Budget documents as a “job creation” measure for 2000 roles. For those following along, that’s a cost of $263,500 per job (far more than the jobs lost due to the tax taken in the first place!).
• With the economy running stronger than expected, taxpayers should be picking up less of the tab – but government spending is forecast to run nearly $14 billion ($7,722.22 per household) higher between 2022 and 2025 than forecast in December.
It’s one thing to prop up the economy when we’re all locked inside, but now we’re (mostly) back to normal, isn’t it time to turn off the tap?
Return to 1980s-style social welfare will reduce long term living standards
The benefit hikes announced today will reduce the incentive for Kiwis to work, and result in more intergenerational unemployment poverty.
Economic analysis in the United States over recent weeks suggests that if you increase unemployment benefits too high (as Biden has done) people simply won’t show up to work – one reason why experts have said employment growth there has been so disappointing. With large benefit increases on the way, we risk making the same mistake: why turn up to work, when staying home pays so well?
Unlike President Biden’s relief, our Government is locking in these measures permanently and with their new policy to link benefits to wage growth, the problem doesn’t go away even in a hot economy.
Labour rightly applauded Bill English’s targeted social investment approach – to get people off welfare and into work. Labour’s abandonment of that approach will see higher intergenerational welfare dependency.
Making trains at home
In the 1980s we learned the hard way that making everything at home is an expensive way to live. Forty years later, the Government has decided to rekindle the spirit of Muldoon and begin making KiwiRail’s equipment in Dunedin rather than buying it in from overseas. The total increase in funding for KiwiRail will cost taxpayers $722.22 per household.
Grant Robertson’s new unemployment tax
And if that wasn’t enough, we can reveal the Government is doing a deal with the unions to introduce an expensive new unemployment insurance programme. The scheme will cover 80 percent of incomes for those who become unemployed. That sounds generous – and it is – if the scheme follows similar European models, it will mean a new tax.
Health sector sucks up billions more
Health takes the lion’s share of new spending – with more than $4.6 billion allocated to the sector alone through 2025. More than two-thirds of that amount is just allocated to support budget-busting DHBs. But the Government should read our reports on health productivity – unless the sector focuses on becoming more efficient and catching up with other OECD counterparts, our health system will continue to be an unpredictable liability.
Joe Ascroft, our consulting economist who joined us in the lock up, is equally unimpressed:
The Economist’s View
This time last year, the country was staring down economic armageddon. Coronavirus had all-but closed the economy and near-term forecasts for unemployment, debt, and economic growth were extremely dire.
A year on and the economic environment is better than all but the most optimistic of forecasts. Yet, even as unemployment sits at 4.7% (forecast to fall further) and economic growth is again firmly positive (expected to peak at 4.4% in 2023) debt is still expected to climb considerably reaching a peak of $184.2 billion in 2024 (46.9% of GDP or $102,333.33 per household).
While that is considerably better than even Treasury’s forecasts in December (debt was then expected to peak at $194.2 billion – or $5,555 more per household than today), the Government has taken advantage of the rosier economic forecasts to spend even more over the forecast period than had been forecast just six months ago. Between 2022 and 2025, government spending is now expected to cumulatively come in $13.9 billion ($7,722.22 per household) higher than in December.
Normally you might expect forecast government spending to come in lower with the economy tracking better (lower unemployment should mean less social spending), but clearly the Government has chosen to take advantage of the moment and press on with some of the more expensive items on their policy wish list.
The Big Picture
It’s now been a decade since New Zealanders last received a tax cut (legislated in Budget 2010, taking effect in 2011) – but main benefits have been increased four times (three times under Labour and once under National). Instead, a new tax is in the pipeline to fund the Government’s planned unemployment insurance scheme.
At some point, something has to give. With the global economy opening up and opportunities to work overseas expanding, many taxpayers will be thinking seriously about moving overseas to earn more and pay less tax. That could be the start of a nasty downward spiral – as high-earning taxpayers move overseas, the burden of Government spending grows with higher taxes or debt required to fund the gap.
Obviously the circuit breaker is stronger growth and higher incomes – but there was no sign of any focus on that problem in today’s budget.
More to come
We’ve spent the last hour talking to journalists who have also just got a hold of the documents. I’m joining Magic Talk at 6:30 tonight, and we’ll keep you in the loop as we continue to work through the detail.
With the new economic figures, our official Government debt clock will also be updated in the next few hours. Keep an eye on http://www.debtclock.nz – it’s slowed, but only a little…
Thank you for your support.

Jordan Williams
Executive Director
New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union

Around 40 % of private rentals are paid by government.

Mikey is on welfare.

Ed has added a Bludget Day thread.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/05/new-zealanders-react-to-mike-hosking-s-threat-to-move-to-australia-over-government-s-left-leaning-progressive-thinking.html

Newstalk ZB host Mike Hosking is threatening to move to Australia if New Zealand doesn’t reject the Government’s “left-leaning progressive thinking”, garnering mixed reactions on social media.

Hosking called the Government an “ideological outlier” in a column for the NZ Herald on Thursday morning, ahead of Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s Budget announcement at 2pm.

“The world isn’t rejecting left-leaning progressive thinking for no reason, they’re rejecting it because it doesn’t work,” Hosking wrote for the Herald.

“We’ll get there, next year or at the next election. If we don’t, I’m off to Australia.”

Centralising everything. Govt knows best.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/05/national-cries-truancy-crisis-as-more-than-60-000-students-chronically-absent.html

Almost 40 percent of pupils are not going to school regularly.

Ministry of Education figures show more than 60,000 students are classified as chronically absent, missing at least three days of school every fortnight. Almost 40 percent of pupils are not going to school regularly. The National Party’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith is calling the situation “a truancy crisis”. .

He said the new system was imposed on them and principals consulted by the association wanted to retain a localised system, and did not want a centralised model which has not worked.

Before the changes Walsh said his school had a Fijian truancy officer who knew where the students gathered when they were skipping school.

He would go and get them and take them to school and could also talk to teachers about any problems within a family that might be affecting attendance, such as a lack of food or domestic violence. The school could then take some action.

Consider the morning after (the budget) pill.

We are so deeply fucked 🤣

Is it one hand does not talk to the other or just more (local) Govt lying?

I was out today and went past a sports field.
It was closed .
It was soggy wet. Fair enough.
So I slightly detoured to another that gets wet and yes there was a big puddle and ‘field closed’ sign.’
This is Auckland council.

And yet Watercare (such a cute and misdirecting name) tells us there is a drought.
Auckland council – or more correctly, the ratepayers – own Watercare.

There are hose restrictions and a shocking outlook.
Shocking I tell ya.
Why, even NIWA says so.
well, it must be twue.

Records show it has rained on 19 days in the last month and two of these were 20 mm or more in the same day.

Somebody is telling porkies.
That is a drought !!!
Get out of here.

Did the CEO resign last year because he was told to tell porkies to furnish another agenda and he did not want to?

“French Nobel prize winner Luc Montagnier about the WHO and Vaccination programs.”

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/074/575/358/original/c77ebb355e180e43.mp4

No vax-no vote.
Gotta be on the cards.

Facebook.
2.7 Million for a woke bliarite to tell them what to do. FFS.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/the-inside-story-of-nick-clegg-at-facebook-and-how-much-power-he-really-wields/NG4FA3KCRXC2WXUEYY5QDLZBV4/
He was brought in to salvage Facebook’s reputation. Has Nick Clegg changed anything or is he just there to make Mark Zuckerberg look good? Josh Glancy reports.

In the summer of 2015, Nick Clegg joined his former cabinet colleague David Laws for a burger and a pint at the Duchy Arms in Kennington, south London. It was just after a general election that saw the Liberal Democrat parliamentary party reduced to the size of a water polo team. Clegg had lost his job as deputy prime minister and stepped down as party leader. His ministerial Jaguar was gone along with his security detail.

Ports of Auckland chief executive Tony Gibson has cited damaging personal attacks for his sudden resignation today.

In a statement, Gibson said the attacks on him had been damaging to the company and the great people he works with.

He will step down at the end of the June.

The controversial businessman is leaving his role without a single kind word from Mayor Phil Goff, and the Maritime Union has labelled his 10-year reign as “negative”.

But Auckland Chamber of Commerce boss Michael Barnett said the resignation was about political and union bullying.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ports-of-auckland-chief-executive-tony-gibson-cites-personal-attacks-for-resignation/XU3OXQGOH563JA2AVGYI7QGZSU/

The bullies win again. Goff can’t control his own organization and is very critical of Gibbson.

Someone is going to pick up a good executive.

Meanwhile goff is punishing for manakau fro a port. Really he is.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/auckland-port-debate-mayor-phil-goff-stresses-need-to-examine-manukau-harbour-alternative/LBD3ACU62YE5MZN2RKCTYVK66A/

While Budget 2021 allocated an extra $380 million for 1000 new homes for Māori, its bombshell was a projected massive drop to nearly zero in national house price growth.

Housing Minister Megan Woods said 1000 papakāinga housing, affordable rentals, transitional housing and owner-occupied housing were planned.

But Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced bigger news: the Treasury is expecting house price growth between 2021 and 2022 to be 0.9 per cent.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/budget-2021-from-191-to-09-could-house-price-growth-collapse-by-that-much/3VFDMZPUCVXJDNZNVBXX6ZOWYY/

Treasury. the new home for school kid analysis.
Price growth may slow but not for a tear or two yet. Open the gates and away it will go.
Price always reflect the cost of replacement.
timber is going up and up. supllies are getting short of many of the components and I have yet to see a Fletcher company decrease it prices on anything. Allimport prices are going up so Fletcher will just make more money.
These people are a joke.

The “feebate” – which makes EVs cheaper and gas guzzlers more expensive – may be back from the dead.

As a member of the coalition Government, NZ First killed the scheme last year, but the policy made a cryptic return in today’s Budget.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson​ announced $302 million had been put aside for an unnamed policy “to implement a regime to incentivise the uptake of low-emissions vehicles”. It’s not clear whether the scheme will be a subsidy only, or whether it will also raise prices for gas guzzlers, however Climate Minister James Shaw said it would have a “broadly similar design” to the feebate.

No further details were provided in the Budget, aside from statements that the “initiative will build demand for buyers of zero and low-emission vehicles” and that design work was still being completed. The public will find out more in a few weeks’ time, Shaw said.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/125197119/evbuying-subsidies-resurrected-by-300m-boost

The policy will make electric cars, hybrids and efficient petrol and diesel cars more affordable to buy. But it’s unclear if the yet-to-be-announced scheme will resemble what was first proposed in 2019. In 2019, the Ministry of Transport road tested key details in a policy: it would apply to imported cars, though not to vehicles already driving on New Zealand roads. It would offer a maximum rebate of $8000 to customers buying cars categorised as efficient.

The Government was going to pick up some of this tab, but so would gas guzzler customers, who were set to pay a fee of up to $3000 when they buy a high-emissions vehicle.

Reported on Al Jazeera.

Only 5k of 90 million Africans have got the jab.
They have been given no information on the vaccine by the government.
Also, a major cause of hesitancy is due to the massive problems they had with the Gates Ebola vaccine.
Very few doctors and nurses want it.

https://t.me/TheDonsNightShift/37479

Regan Hillyer – How To Brainwash 7 Billion People.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf88XSVlBtc

It is actually racist you stupid woman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u65HUxXFw18
Lori Lightfoot catching heat for ‘prioritizing’ non-white reporters

The Maori Party hates snow.
It’s white, and it’s on their land.

I did leave my coat here, didn’t I?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDwtbArfbOI
Ted Cruz Mocks Chuck Schumer, Says He Won’t Talk About Israel Because He’s Scared Of AOC Primary

Red has a good post about Luxon and his achievements at Air NZ.
Read it and weep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESLzzveN5wA
New poll shows Republicans are unified behind Donald Trump

A new poll released by Democratic polling company Democracy Corps has found Republican voters are more enthused and unified behind former president Donald Trump ahead of next year’s midterm election.

Polish Air Force hijacking alert sparks panic as plane turned towards the west.

France News 24 wrote: “Renegade/Sarex-21 exercises are taking place in Poland.
“Hijacking this aircraft may be an element of these exercises.”
The Polish Armed Forces also referred to the “tactical-special exercise renegade/Sarex-21” aimed at countering terrorist threats from the air, as well as conducting search and rescue operation on land and at sea.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1438659/Polish-Air-Force-plane-hijacked-latest-update-Europe-direction-west-tracker-live/amp

Red Cross blood donations.

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/074/610/135/original/b0fa531e0b57f681.mp4

Shit, just caught up with the budget, if I was a young man I would be off to Oz in a flash.

Fuck, Hamas are not only stupid, but criminal. Hope Israel wipes this scourge from he earth once and for all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx0cepcmpu4&ab_channel=SkyNewsAustraliaSkyNewsAustraliaVerified

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S9bI46ohsU&ab_channel=i24NEWSEnglishi24NEWSEnglish

I don’t see anything on Stuff about this:

” Thirty NZ doctors have won a case in NZ court against the rollout of covid-19 vaccination, arguing the Nuremberg code international law of untested medication use on the general public. However the NZ government is passing emergency legislation to overturn the courts findings.
By the Authority of Nuremberg Code on medical experimentation you can refuse using this statement. I do hereby exercise my right to refuse to submit to Covid-19 Vaccination. ”

Meanwhile Stuff parrots fear mongering rubbish from the Washington post about India and fails completely to mention that covid cases and deaths are plummeting since the widespread use of Ivermectin and HCQ was resumed. Ardern’s government is truly evil.

Bob Hope.

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/074/613/808/original/91fa91ef2a1042e5.mp4

Promises. pfffft.

https://twitter.com/NZNationalParty/status/1395291201121624067