Posts by Marc C
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Tom Semmens,
"And the worst thing is, this post on policy demonstrates the Labour party is still so far up it’s own arse it can’t even see that."
Tom, I am afraid you are right. And the speech Andrew Little delivered as Pre-Budget speech may have offered a good summary of National’s failings, and mentioning much aspirational stuff Labour wishes to do, but it is just more verbal diarrhea that offers nothing of substance, not even much of a clear direction. Making endless promises to deliver better policy, but saying nothing about how that can and will be achieved will not convince “middle New Zealand”, as he calls his intended audience, to vote for Labour.
One would have expected a clear direction by now, but I see none. This post by Rob shows us that Labour is indeed stuck in the past of the last 2 to 3 decades, and has not learned much from it.
NO “Bernie” or “Jeremy” in sight, no NZ version of them, nowhere at all. And such ones as Pagani are the “commentators” the MSM continue to invite and present as the “left’s voice” on matters. It is stuff that drives many to despair, I think.
Little’s speech and comments on it on The Standard:
http://thestandard.org.nz/andrew-littles-pre-budget-speech-2/Josie Pagani’s stand on things, e.g. the TPPA:
http://pundit.co.nz/content/opponents-of-the-tpp-have-been-vague-about-their-alternativeWhy bother with “National Light”, many will ask.
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Looking again at this publication in the NZMJ from 20 November 2015, and at another link I provided before, I wonder which one was first in finding out the flawed statement and lack of credible science reference issue:
PDF with post on separate blog:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/msd-dr-bratt-present-misleading-evidence-on-worklessness-and-health-post-09-08-15.pdfRead pages 16 to 21 in the PDF on 'nzsocialjusticeblog2013' and see how the author found out about Bratt's misleading info and "science" data not stacking up well before the researcher at the University of Otago in Wellington wrote his piece published in the NZMJ.
The blog post is dated 09 August 2015, updated mid September that year, and the NZMJ article is from 20 Nov. 2015.
Is there someone ahead of some others in higher offices? Maybe it is just a coincidence, but I guess this may disturb some.
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Blaming the Sallies for the government's failures would be too blatantly obvious a desperate attempt to divert attention. So they may realise that won't help them. And the government may also think, they better not upset the Sallies, as they will still need them for such future 'dirty jobs' as you suggested.
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This is what the CTU's Bill Rosenberg had to say about the government's investment approach:
'The “Investment Approach” is not an investment approach'I think one needs to read that before considering the "investment approach" as being good or useful.
And here is an earlier post that was discussed on this website of blogs over a year ago, also worth reading and reflecting on:
http://publicaddress.net/speaker/how-is-government-evaluating-its-welfare/Without much in the way of evaluation, how can we make a fair judgment on the so called "social investment approach"?
But according to the Salvation Army and their experiences there is certainly more than enough need for more social investment.
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On Planet Bennett there is NO HOUSING CRISIS:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/201801510/no-housing-crisis,-says-paula-bennett"I would certainly not call it a crisis" she answered to a question by RNZ's Queenstown based reporter. She was there today, after avoiding RNZ and other media for four days, apparently not keen on answering any questions.
This time she talked, about her "pipeline" into housing, there in her view not being a national housing crisis and about consent issues, nimbyism and what other excuses she could come up with. She conceded Bill English is the one behind National's housing and social policies, and she claimed she was showing "leadership".
Well, where was that leadership after having known for over a year that social housing was not functioning:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/304288/emergency-housing-sector-'unaccountable' -
Another expert commenting on the housing market and situation in Auckland:
'Poverty crisis or housing crisis?'
Economic commentator Grant Cleary saying it resembles the Irish bubble that burst.
It is out of control and will end badly is the assessment.
But it will offer little consolation to those already struggling to pay rents or buy a home, and particularly those without homes.
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"But we’ve had that approach for decades. Now people are living in cars while the viaduct basin is full of super-yachts."
Sorry, I lost who wrote this and who I am responding to. We learn from history now, which is a science most ordinary citizens have no knowledge about or do not care about. Actually, the young ones will hate me for it, we have the dumbest society we ever had despite of the internet. There is ample silly stuff but little info of relevance that is needed to make a democracy function. The dumber the better is what Key and mates believe in, and that is what they have achieved and it keeps them in power. Call it what you want, in my view it is the perfected dictatorship reliant on dumbed down consumers and other idiots.
No wonder, honestly NO WONDER that some youth in the west turn to jihadism, I full well understand why and the connections, we have a society that for many is void and means nothing, nothing at all any anymore.
PS: I do not support jihadism, I interpret trends, no more.
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Having been near suicidal and up for "review" by WINZ I am near explosive (after previous experiences), and hate the thought of even going to WINZ. I may keep you posted, but I do not like to spread out my own complex issues. I coped for a while, and the less WINZ intererence the better, but knowing the regime, it only makes things so much terribly worse, there must be a better way.
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
As you get it, science though is irrefutable, so the above shows, there are ample well paid liars that serve government and insurance agencies, including ACC. We have the high paid liars keep us from claiming, hence our destitution. But I have contacts so we work from there. This is a lying country one of the worst I know we will deal to it Contact m_christian1964@hotmail,com. We have them close to a legal case here in New Zealand anyway, chip in thanks
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Besides of all this science stuff, bear in mind also we live in a time capsule, isolation, there is nasty shit going on elsewhere, just a taste, I haste, not a taste, a real taste:
There is heaps more and the war goes on, we are fooling ourselves to think this is isolated and done with, we are guilty of indifference.