The Daily Blog Open Mic Tuesday 19th May 2015

1. Proportional representation would help the Greens in Britain a lot, as voters would see their votes count…seems like the Brits are belatedly waking up to this

   ‘Greens, UKIP & minority parties call for UK electoral reform, launch petition’

   http://rt.com/uk/259577-green-ukip-electoral-reform/

   “The leaders of the Green Party, UKIP, and Plaid Cymru, as well as representatives from the Liberal Democrats and SNP, have delivered a petition to Downing Street calling for an overhaul of the electoral system and more proportional representation.

   The general election saw the Greens receive 1.1 million votes and UKIP nearly four million, but both parties only won one seat each.”…

2. The MSM get more stupid every day! God, I am sick of death of hearing about Bruce Jenner’s sex change operation, and Johnny Depp’s f….ng dogs! Stuff.co.nz really know how to sniff out a real news story, eh?.

   • Msm in a johnkey donkey neolib banana republic….”God Save New Zealand!”

3. There is a Neolib view in New Zealand that restricting the DPB stops teenage pregnancies ( see Post comments by Andrew on Miteria Turei’s May guest blog on the ‘Daily Blog’)

   This is counter to the international prevailing view that looks at other social issues such as young female wellbeing and rights ….contraception, supportive family , education and employment independence opportunities etc…better to address these issues than chauvinist victim blaming and making children of the poor even more disadvantaged

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_pregnancy

   “In developed countries, teenage pregnancies are often associated with social issues, including lower educational levels, higher rates of poverty, and other poorer life outcomes in children of teenage mothers. Teenage pregnancy in developed countries is usually outside of marriage, and carries a social stigma in many communities and cultures.[8] By contrast, teenage parents in developing countries are often married, and their pregnancies welcomed by family and society. However, in these societies, early pregnancy may combine with malnutrition and poor health care to cause medical problems.

   Teenage pregnancies appear to be preventable by comprehensive sex education and access to birth control.[9] Abstinence-only sex education does not appear to be effective.[10]”

   http://sjp.sagepub.com/content/36/4/415.abstract

4. There is a Neolib view in New Zealand that restricting the DPB stops teenage pregnancies ( see Post comments by Andrew on Miteria Turei’s May guest blog on the ‘Daily Blog’)

   This is counter to the international prevailing view that looks at other social issues such as young female wellbeing and rights ….contraception, supportive family , education and employment independence opportunities etc…better to address these issues than chauvinist female victim blaming and making children of the poor even more disadvantaged

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_pregnancy

   “In developed countries, teenage pregnancies are often associated with social issues, including lower educational levels, higher rates of poverty, and other poorer life outcomes in children of teenage mothers. Teenage pregnancy in developed countries is usually outside of marriage, and carries a social stigma in many communities and cultures.[8] By contrast, teenage parents in developing countries are often married, and their pregnancies welcomed by family and society. However, in these societies, early pregnancy may combine with malnutrition and poor health care to cause medical problems.

   Teenage pregnancies appear to be preventable by comprehensive sex education and access to birth control.[9] Abstinence-only sex education does not appear to be effective.[10]”

   http://sjp.sagepub.com/content/36/4/415.abstract

   In countries where women have equality of opportunity and good contraception options they do not choose to have teenage pregnancies…this is a feminist issue , a human rights issue and also an overpopulation issue

5. Another WTF moment coming on!

   http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11451091

   Judiciary – pocket – Key??

   • God Banks looks like a retard cartoon character( he is so bad he is good)….and look at the size of the stomach walking behind him, head down…says it all….corruption with a smiling face and fat stomach

6. Chooky is right.

   We in NZ are approaching the banana republic status.

   Where the judiciary has no teeth, and corruption is now rampant.

7. Employers warn us that any increase in the Living Wage will lead to job losses. They go to great lengths to warn us about this ‘fact’.

   Well, the solution is simple. Introduce a Maximum Wage. That way they have two figures to play with. Whenever the cost of living rises, employers raise the Living Wage. If job losses seem inevitable they simply lower the Maximum Wage.

   That way they address Income Inequality and save jobs at the same time.

8. ”450 million annually” the Prime Minister estimates the ‘bright line test’ will be added to the Government tax take–RadioNZ National,

   SO, for 7 years of this Governments rule 199,000 ‘property investors’ have deliberately avoided paying their due tax on income simply because the IRD, some would say with deliberately with political blessing, had no means of ‘proving’ that these people intended to make a profit from their property transactions,

   This Tax Evasion also with the blessing of 9 years of the previous Labour Government,(who’s party is riddled with such ‘property investors’ from top to bottom), has allowed these 199,000 to Evade an estimated 7 billion dollars of due tax,

   Meanwhile on the other side of the equation, successive Governments, both Labour and National, have allowed that 199,000 to build ‘loss making’ tax structures around these ‘property investments’ which have allowed them to collect at least another 7 billion dollars of income tax rebates,

   450 million dollars is the cost of restructuring the Working For Families tax credit which would allow benefit families with children into the scheme…

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