Posts by Riddley Walker
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I think it's "hair, there and everywhere"
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Oops, hard to keep up for us slow peasant types...
That's FIVE FLIP-FLOPS in one week. -
Key:
Repealing seabed and foreshore, umm not now.
Abolishing Maori seats immediately, umm not now.
Making Corrections separate from Justice, umm not now.
Pepperpotting state houses is bad, umm not now.
Fabulous champion of the poor.That's FOUR FLIP-FLOPS in one week folks, a fabulous new National record.
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There is also economic rationalism in pepper-potting state housing so you don't end up with ghettos of alientated poor, who will then leave their ghettos and come through the windows of those nice white rich people living in their wealthy burbs purged of yucky poor people. More alienated poor means more property crime, people paying more insurance, more taxes going on law enforcement and corrections and justice, not to mention a reduced quality of life for all.
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Tussock you are so harsh! I'm sure that lovely kind white gentleman in a suit (oops sorry, i noticed he had that happening untucked collared shirt look going on when he was hanging with his buddies the Poor People), knows some very good merchant bankers that will pay a good price for all those worthless institutions. After all, we should really be grateful they are willing to take such worthless institutions off our clueless non-merchant banking hands, what philanthropists they are to buy them. Thank goodness we were able to sell that worthless Telecom to John's mates for instance.
Have you ever considered that it could never be in the economic interests of a private prison company to reform their inmates?
Nevermind the fact that private companies typically have an event horizon of around 6 to 24 months, thus rendering them utterly disinterested in the long term outcomes of their education or health provision, the fruits of which are usually 20yrs plus down the track.
Do we need to go over all the market failure arguments again? We will be of course if Lord Key succeeds in marching us back to the 80s. What was that catchy saying about being ignorant of history and therefore doomed to repeat it. You can of course rely on the corporate media to not remind us of yester-year's failures. Ho hum.
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What a start it's been for National - not only has John Key discovered poor people, but his party has managed THREE FLIP-FLOPS IN ONE WEEK.
First a turn-around on supporting a repeal of the seabed and foreshore act, then a change of heart on immediately abolishing the Maori seats, and now a call to abolish the Department of Corrections and have the Department of Justice subsume its role after being the very same party that separated Corrections from Justice in the first place.
Actually make that FOUR if you count the marked contrast with Key's phobia last year of public housing in nice white rich people's areas like Hobsonville, and his newly discovered "best-mate of the poor" face he's put on this week.
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As for Pita, I agree a good man with good intentions but that really doesn't count for much until the sentiment is backed by detailed and practicable policy - not to mention at least a skerric of evidence to support its feasibility.
As for Tariana's new best mate John Key, Mr Millionaire Banker Who's Just Discovered Poor People, I really doubt he could give a flying f*** what happens to the unemployed as long as he squeezes a few more red-neck votes for exploiting their plight. If he DID really care, he'd be a truly new look for National, but all he seems capable of at this point is rehashing the tried, tested and failed policies of the 80s and 90s. I would have expected a little more effort in pretending to offer something new in terms of policy. -
Excellent article Tze, but crikey - what with all that reasoned argument and actual data to substantiate your claims, for a moment i forgot i was reading political journalism. don't let the corporate hacks find out or they'll run you out of town for fear the general audience might develope a taste for it.