Posts by Rae Sott
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Just wondering if anyone else has spotted the blindingly obvious where a UBI is concerned. The talk of this has arisen as we see we are most likely heading toward a pretty much jobless future. Here is where the blindingly obvious bit comes in. It is clear, well to me it is, that there will be many, many fewer taxpayers on which to call to pay a UBI, so elsewhere will have to be looked for the source of it. It will have to come from the obscene profits made by corporations using technology and machines to produce whatever it is they produce and they should be lining up to do so, as their machines aint going to buying anything off them. It will be either that or nationalization so that the people whose jobs have been replaced actually do reap the benefits of it.
Or a financial transaction tax.
You will NEVER ever be able to support a UBI with taxation among yourselves, the WHOLE system will have to change, and I say if a jobless future is the future then Bring it on. -
Let's not forget the actual first choice was the red and blue version of Lockwood's design (the original), sadly it still has the unfortunate cartoon fern on it.
One thing is for certain I don't think NZ should go forth with the representative colours being principally black and blue. Then again, maybe some of you think it is an appropriate colour combination to represent the country.
It is an awful flag design so have everything crossed the existing one comes through, so that some point down the track we can revisit this and get one that has been properly designed and hopefully one with some sort Maori motif on it, because the only thing that sets us apart from any other country is that.
Please don't vote for this thing unless you think it is absolutely the best representation of NZ, I have given you some reasons why I think it is not.
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I am getting fonder of radio by the day, I can keep up with stuff and do other stuff at the same time. TV beginning to become a thing of the past for me.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Swan,
Investment in already existing housing is dreadful, and contributes nothing, and that is from anybody, the rentier class regardless of where they are from including here, need severely curtailing and NZ needs to again be a nation of home owner occupiers.
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
There is no equality in todays housing market
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Andre,
Absolutely and the National govt in 2011 changing the investor category for prospective immigrants to include residential property was, to my mind, borderline criminal. I hate the whole idea of buying one's way in, fullstop. Give me, any day, the immigrant couple with the little cafe with the piano out front the wife plays whenever she has a few minutes to spare. I bought my unplanned coffee just so I could sit and listen to her, and even hear something a bit different, Chinese music. That is my kind of immigrant, money buggars everything up,
It should never have come to this, non resident foreigners should never have been allowed carte blanche with our housing market and farmland. We are mad to allow. I am sick of being accused of xenophobia but I am damned if I want money coming in to this country from one that has come from a country where the political system has made it possible to hoover up most of the worlds money then set out into the world to conquer it with cash. Remember there is no freehold property ownership in China.I am just as concerned about the TPPA and the likes of Monsanto being able to have way too much say in our lives as I am about the prospect that Chinese Communist Party could see us as a potential Tibet
And before you start jumping up and down, my first wtf moment regarding foreign ownership came when I first learned of Walter Peak selling to USA and Israeli interests, that was a lot of years ago, and my concern has only increased, the less we do about it
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Mark Graham,
Well then if they want to live here they can sort that out FIRST not the other way around
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The audience they play to is the same one that is baying for the blood of the two Australians in Bali, who will never even try to consider that drugs should possibly be considered a medical rather than a legal issue.
The human race has sought out mind altering substances since time began and that will probably never change, in fact, as life gets harder it will almost certainly increase.
The game Dunne and co are playing is nothing short of whack a mole with synthetic cannabinoids as fast as you get rid of one another will pop up in a slightly different form. -
Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
No he doesn't but, sadly, way too many people are happy to let him get away with it. That is what I find so incredible
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I'm an atheist, I also think that a guy existed in the Middle East, in the past, who is now referred to as Jesus Christ. I think it was probably more likely that he was part of a movement, ahead of its time, in that it did take what would be now thought of, as a liberal leftie view of life, the likes of him/them have appeared throughout history from time to time. But a divine being, a son of some god, pull the other one, that is a pure construct of man.
Religion and indoctrination go hand in hand and you sound well and truly indoctrinated, but the world would come to little harm by following the philosophy of this guy/movement.
I strongly suspect his name wasn't Jesus Christ, either