not just incompetent, but positively dangerous stooges:
‘Jacinda Ardern’s ‘kooky’ plans to spend $26BILLION on a ‘wellbeing’ Budget will devastate New Zealand and force Kiwis to flee to Australia….’
“It’s just going to be very ugly at the next election”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7085401/New-Zealand-Prime-Minister-Jacinda-Ardern-criticised-wellbeing-budget.html
Read it an weep for a once-fine little country. A headscarf and carefully made up face haggard with grief just ain’t enough, sweetie.
$26 billion!!! That’s a lot of money. That’s more than $5,000 per kiwi, or is there something wrong with my math.
There’s something wrong with the little commie’s math, Warren.
“The plan is an extraordinarily radical one designed to re-imagine how a country measures its success.”
Thanks to polices enacted by Hugo Chavez, Venezuela has the lowest number of stray dogs and cats per capita in the world…..
I presume you mean Jacinda as the commie.
Of course. “comrades” 17 times in one speech is a bit of a giveaway.
Just making sure. Yes I thought you were referring to her.
While I’m here KG, I’ve designed a bumper sticker which says ‘If you call me person, you are calling me simply taxpayer’.
Point being, if you misgender someone you get into big trouble, so just call them person. But by doing so, you are calling them taxpayer, which may be why they are doing this.
They want everybody to be called taxpayer-friend of the state.
Assuming 40% of New Zealanders are taxpayers it is more than $10,000 per taxpayer.
Superannuants overseas are noticing our massive decline in currency value in most countries.
Twelve to Thirteen per cent decline against USA, Canada, Thailand. Not Australia >>since Peters appointed the Communist. against .
I was accustomed to 24 bahts per dollar here in Bangkok, now 20 bahts per dollar.
Superannuants as a group need to recognise what has happened, get away from the TV Pravda and tear down her Office.
Here’s a question-
“But on Thursday officials revealed a problem with a test website had actually meant some details from the budget could be found using a search on Treasury’s website.”
It’s public data,compiled using public money about public finances.Why isn’t it availible for the public to view?
Answer:Because people might read it and find out just how much of their hard earned money was being pissed away by politicians doing things no one asked them to do.
She wants to improve the wellbeing of New Zealanders and in particular tackle teen suicide, and yet at the same time decriminalise cannabis. Has she not bothered to get herself informed about what weed does to teenage brains? Almost every study into its effects show an increase in depression, schizophrenia and suicidal behaviour – especially when used by teenagers. Has she not realised that in many families, especially Maori families, even preteens are allowed to smoke it? Has she not seen outcomes studies where teenagers who smoke weed perform at an academic level of at least 3 years below their peers?
It’s all about nice sounding words and plans just to buy power and forget the nastiness that results.
Damn right.
The point is well made, but on the other hand i don’t think criminalising possession has ever worked. The abuse you quote is happening under the current regime. The best answer may thus be to decriminalise but to put significant effort into other ways of minimising its use. I don’t have the answer. As yet there is no evidence of any thought being put into finding one.
I think it was Portugal which decriminalised it, apparently quite successfully. But I doubt that would be useful as a guide, given the current state of NZ society.
Yes, culture matters. Our enemies targeted ours for more than a century now.
Portugal is always quoted as the great success story (I think for heroin abuse) but I read somewhere that it might be all that it seems to be.
Peter Hitchens has consistently disputed the claim that Portugal has solved anything by decriminalisation. Likewise, I gather Colorado’s love affair with dope is a bit of a win for stoners and has increased use which is not really helpful long term.
This is a complex problem. Possession of weed in NZ has not been treated as a crime for some time but I think that decriminalising it for those who sell it to young vulnerable minds, always with the hope of getting them onto something more addictive and lucrative, should be a crime. Education is the best way ahead …..but it needs strong community support.
Personally I don’t care what a person does to their lives as long as it does not present a threat to me or I don’t have to pay for their health care or welfare.
We never really had a “war on drugs”in the west,if we did our policy towards dealers would look more like the one in Singapore.
To me it’s another symptom of our rotten culture.Drug use is portrayed as being “cool” in pop culture and the behavior is enabled by our societal attitudes toward it.
Of the people I attended school with who had experiemented with drugs,and there were many,the only two who came out of it unscathed were ones who’s parents caught it early and came down on them hard right out the gate.
The key there were fathers who would rather see them dead,than strung out wasting thier lives and causing trouble.
One friend of mine got caught with a joint when he was 16.He came home from school and found his key didn’t fit the house door anymore.When he called his father at work to find out why,he was informed why and was told he was dead to his family unless he gave it up.
Another was a girl I knew who came home from a party high.Her father was a cop who was friends with the then Orleans parish medical examiner.Her father took her the local morgue and showed her a couple girls not much older than her that overdosed and were laid out on a slab.
In both cases being hit with reality and not given any good options they both quit and never touched it again.Everyone else that I knew who tried it,either sucessfully hid it from thier parents until it was too late.Or were enabled by thier parents coddling and went on to become lifelong addicts better than half of which are now dead.
For my own self,I never touched the stuff.I was told by my parents early on that it was morally wrong to subjugate oneself to a weed or a chemical.That simple lesson has saved me untold amounts of trouble over the years.
The majority of parents aren’t truly parents
any more and it’s a bloody long time since I met anybody you could call a real ‘role model’ father.
The State owns the children now, and -like everything else politicians and bureaucrats are involved in -it’s an expensive disaster.
But you do pay for their health and welfare mawm.
As well as smokers, the obese, unhealthy migrants, etc, etc. Ce la vie!
This crap is being driven by hysteria and the anti-gun lobby But I repeat myself….
‘McDonald’s police callout
Christchurch branch of restaurant chain orders evacuation after talk of a “gun” is overheard The spokeswoman said the restaurant had put itself into lockdown after someone had overheard a conversation which mentioned the word “gun”.
People inside the restaurant have spoken on social media about their experience, with one woman saying patrons were unaware of the situation until being told by “a hysterical worker” to leave the store.’
You know the solution doncha? Take a page out of Lenny Bruce’s attack on four letter words bans. Go there with the local sports club and chat about them. Announce a day out at McDonald’s for all sports clubs. And buy only the bare minimum.