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Luxon is not the right person to be talking about housing he should leave it to Bishop. Luxons talks about rents coming down when he is one of the problems owning seven houses. For Luxon to mention encouraging developers to build rent to own properties is a joke as is the tax rebate landlords use to get. As properties values increased ten fold due to low supply and high demand and quantitative easing also increased the value of people homes are they not happy with that. Its seems our landlords are they are like some of our farmers they just want want more and more it just plain greed.
The USA has all sorts of ways to gain hegemon[e]y over the world.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18023582/america-dump-tariffs-british-steel-brexit-trade-deal/
…International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan says there has “definitely” been a change in approach from Joe Biden’s White House.
Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has “highlighted” the importance of the US and UK standing together on freedom, democracy and trade, she added….
And in a huge boost to those discussions, hopes are growing that the US will ditch its punitive tariffs on UK steel and aluminium within days as early as today.
The levies – 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium – were imposed by Donald Trump in 2018.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/127578264/nzs-official-jobless-figures-are-abject-nonsense
Mike Yardley in The Press always seems to lean to the right but he is making relevant and right critique in this
Opinion piece from Tuesday Jan.26/22.
When Labour took office, there were 289,788 on a main benefit, or 9.7 per cent of the working-age population. The bulk of today’s beneficiaries are on Jobseeker Support, which has rocketed from 123,042 four years ago, to 187,989 today. That’s a 53 per cent increase. As a proportion of the working-age population, it has leapt from 4.1 per cent to 6.0 per cent…
…in Canterbury, the deterioration in long-term dependency numbers is even more pronounced, with a more than 100 per cent increase in Jobseeker Support recipients drawing the benefit for longer than a year, from 5658 to 11,400, over the past four years.
Sepuloni concedes, “there is still a lot more work to be done, and we have yet to see the impact of Omicron on the employment market. But New Zealanders and our labour market are more resilient than some have given us credit for”.
NZ unemp[loyment stats. It has been pointed out numerous times that these are figures are a rort and don’t give a true picture. Does in this great democracy, the government take any notice of what informed critics are saying – every negative comment cannot be dismissed as from ‘some protester’?
Four years ago we didn’t have a pandemic this needs to be factored into the equation. The job seeker numbers will drop again soon but we need to heavily invest in NZers upskilling and filling the gaps normally occupied by foreign labour dependency. This dependency for foreign workers is just as damaging for our economy as benefit dependency. We have housing and infrastructure issues and rapid and escalated immigration exacerbate these problems. Yes we need workers but we have had this problem for very long time and really it has never been adequately addressed.
Agree damaging to our economy, our society of people, our self-value and practical abilities, our culture, and on good healthy productive work sectors, of which tourism should be a lesser one as it contains so many hidden costs, and those that are borne by relatively poorer NZs.
Luxon has now tried to worm his way out of his derogative comments about bottom feeders. He is now saying him and his party care deeply about people but his tax policies do not match his caring deeply concern when he is giving them a $2.15 weekly increase and he said every dollar counts. He has shown his true self and NZ need to open their eyes and ears cause he is full of shit just like his mentor John.