Billions for internet, bugger all for children in poverty

1. Oh, Steven Joyce has been laying cables all over this country alright – just not in the way he’d like us thinking of (come to think of it, it’s not something I like thinking of either aaaaaarrrgg!)

2. a homeless man has been bashed to death in balmoral ak..

   ..he had been living /sleeping rough behind a disused shop for a year..

   ..the ‘year’ part made me go ballistic..

   ..and call down curses on many many people..

   http://whoar.co.nz/2014/police-are-treating-the-death-of-a-man-who-was-sleeping-rough-on-aucklands-dominion-rd-as-a-homicide-comment-a-pox-on-many-many-people/

3. This is a bit of a false dichotomy here – the country can easily afford both, and should be doing both. There’s plenty of better ‘dumb government spending’ targets to criticise than high-speed internet.

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