The Daily Blog Open Mic Tuesday 7th April 2015

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  1. I applaud this organizations efforts, but really:

    Dunedin had a ”high level of need” for food, and recipients included the ”working poor ” who had part-time jobs and struggled to make ends meet.

    ”The one thing they can control in their budget is their food, so they don’t eat,”…

    The organisation needed more money from businesses to meet the demand, and every dollar given to FoodShare provided three meals for a Dunedin resident.

    ”Every dollar feeds a Dunedin person for a day.”

    http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/338315/foodshare-puts-500000-meals-hungry-bellies

    This; Brighter Future (TM), was brought to you by the Key National government.

  2. Shame on John Key, as he sat there on breakfast this AM saying we are lucky to be in NZ with a stable economy and rising standard of living.

    The guy is demented and has a hollow head and cant see the evil he has done to us all.

    I am 70 yrs old and believe this rising anger felt around the country with the widening gap between the 1% and the rapidly increasing poor will cause several new compassionate candidates to levitate towards Labour/NZ First as the others are all crap and have lost their mojo.

    There are many bloggers on TDB that are very level headed and present as a honest human souls that few politicians even understand let alone try to emulate as many here on TDB do so naturally.

    I am convinced the next administration of NZ will be a labour/NZ First Government with the Greens deciding to give tacit luke warm support rather than their stated claim at present to have an interest in a Blue green line up, and continue on the fringes just doing their own thing as always.

    Think about it please, as this is the most likely possibility, to be our next Government after we sweep the criminal Nasty NatZ away from our presence, we need more humanity in the candidates to be in the next Government to lead with humanity.

    • As Fred Dagg once sang “we don’t know how lucky we are….MATE….we don’t know how lucky we are” In the 70s we surely didn’t know how lucky we were. We had ACC (the real version not the gutted version we have now); we had NZ Super (for a short time until National wiped it and replaced it with the unaffordable present scheme): we had wage bargaining; we had real jobs; we made most of our own goods; we had (relatively) clean rivers, we had weekends and world class affordable (if not exactly free) education; we had a free press. Then came Muldoon, Douglas, Prebble, Bolger, Birch, Richardson, Shipley, Brash, Key, Slater and a host of others who took pride in decimating most of what made New Zealand the great place it used to be. Thanks for nothing you b…….s!

  3. I knew nothing about the ‘Camp Gallipoli’ concept until today when I heard about it on the radio. For the price of a mere $100, New Zealanders would be entitled to the priviledge of camping out under the stars in Ellerslie Racecourse, honouring the memory of the brave Anzacs by sleeping outside and being woken at dawn for a special memorial service. Local band Evermore would provide the theme tune to the event, and high profile New Zealanders such as Sir Richard Hadlee, Sir Graham Henry, Annabel Langbein and Nigel Latta were backing the event alongside the RSA.

    Unfortunately for the organisers only 102 people bought tickets, and they have had to cancel the event because it is not viable. It was planned to attract between 10,000 and 20,000 people.

    ….. to read the rest of this post check out my blog
    http://100yearsoftrenches.blogspot.co.nz/

    Critical alternative opinion on Anzac day.

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