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How does Auckland council pay off it’s $10b debt?
It could reduce salaries paid to executives and senior managers who are being paid in excess of $200k to proportionately no more than the Mayors income paid.
Return Public Service to the public service and remove government and private agencies from the payroll.
And stop Panuku from selling off assets cheap to mates at mates rates!
Hear hear that man! And he is providing analysis for nothing, I think. Have you had any brown paper bags filled with cash handed to you lately Denny P?
‘If you want to have a go, and you want to make something of yourself — we don’t just do bottom feeding and just focus on the bottom. We focus on people who want to be positive and ambitious.’
That’s transparent – National NZ will get us high on the listings for Transparency International.
No matter how high the Gnats put the bar (and not forgetting Labour’s high standards) they expect the really worthy will jump high and try again even if they have some disability. It sounds like a similar future as for a bumble bee persisting in trying to exit a closed window and you have to carefully enclose them in a teatowel and show them the way out, whereupon they buzz off and will continue their efforts until after dusk. That’s what NZs will do if given a chance and support, more carrot and less stick! That’s if all their disposable money isn’t taxed off them, note this point well Luxury Luxon. If you are on a benefit and earn a little too much beyond a set limit – I think that extra earning will be taxed at over 80%. How is that for nurturing ambition, opening a window to a standard of living and not just uncomfortable existence as the only goal achievable.
Scoop has Luxon’s latest ululation with link.
Has Luxon ever actually met a poor person? If he had, he would know that the vast bulk of them do not lack ambition for themselves and their kids. Nor are they lacking in the“positivity” and ingenuity that hundreds of thousands of them display every day as they make the best of it for themselves and their loved ones, on a sliver of Luxon’s income.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2203/S00071/on-christopher-luxons-trashing-of-the-poor.htm
What is a ululation –
a long, high-pitched trilling sound resembling a howl, or the act of making such a sound, as to express grief or joy or as part of a musical performance:I particularly liked how her sharp ululation, like a battle cry, punctuated one of the songs on the album.
Ululation Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
https://www.dictionary.com › browse › ululation
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/464022/who-let-the-dogs-out-locals-fight-back-against-stray-canines
“And I think this is an issue a lot of local boards have been raising, and not just around dogs, but also around noise management and consenting.”
The woman wigh small child and dog raises the question of stray dog control and she has had to run from them, and gets rebuffed because of covid. The reply above from a local pollie. FGS. Do something for people feeling unsafe and endangered. It’s no good trying to fix everything efficiently in one swipe, it can’t be done. Some things have to be tackled singly or things prioritised. People’s children’s and vulnerable pets’ safety is paramount.
In Nelson we have just had friendly ducks in a park have their throats slashed. If prevention can help to make the place safer, anywhere get on and make it a mission Councils.
And of course my regular plea, that public services be available to parents, information workshops, and have basic ones leading to receiving a small amount of $10 per child – $30 maximum weekly family benefit which doesn’t displace any other assistance and is not taxed! Small but useful and worth making an effort to get involved in workshops on useful family and parenting stuff. Then in 5-10 years time that real ‘social investment shows in better behaviour and less outbursts of violence of just carelessness for their own and others’ children and peole in general – behaviour improves.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/464015/covid-19-leads-to-staffing-shortages-in-canterbury-for-aged-care-and-health-workers
When do we declare a real emergency and call for able-bodied help in hospitals if they are able?
It seems to me that the modern democratic nation has not wiped out the class idea ever. Now more people see the government as a provider not as the group elected on behalf of the collection of people. Social class has been retained and the upper expects government to carry out their wishes. It has become a vehicle to help going up the steps. It has enabled those at the middle to move around. Society and government for them is like installing lifts or stair lifts between stories in homes. We don’t easily all get in together and work for the good of the country and our fellow citizens, nothing is more important than the individual and then the family concerns. In the 1960-70s we had telethoons. We raised money for equipment for our hospital and got a CAT scan that way, now replaced by an MRI.
We didn’t think we were too good to help out personally for the country. Now we act as if we are a rich country yet those that are wealthy don’t want to pay the reasonable tax on their excess, and do less basic helping out. And those that are poor are treated like outcasts. They shouldn’t need charity, just fix the problem with better, fairer use of economics to suit the various social strata of citizens.
43 readers, really?!
I wonder why Bowalley, TDB and The Standard distrust me. Maybe I’m wrong. Or I piss off the egotists who run them.
Though Martyn is honest but wrong. The central point is demo-cracy is right.
We’re all a quilting circle as far as the public is concerned, after 2000.
Diversion to the end of their hair-tips.
I haven’t kept up with this. Thank you Martyn for registering what was happening. The wedding and the peoples tribunal!
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/02/16/golriz-steps-up-for-assange-in-progressive-thought-olympics/
Rotten Rulings: Julian Assange And The UK Supreme Court
https://www.scoop.co.nz › Top Scoops
15/03/2022 — Kept and caged in Belmarsh throughout this farce of judicial history, he risks being extradited to face 18 charges, 17 based on the US
15/3/22 https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/15/uk-court-rejects-assanges-appeal-against-extradition-home-office-to-have-final-say/
14/3/22 https://assangedefense.org/events/video-the-belmarsh-tribunal-comes-to-the-united-states/
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/28/war-crime-belmarsh-tribunal-demands-accountability-war-terror
https://diem25.org/tag/belmarsh-tribunal/
Haven’t seen this yet. Cornel West? plus link to Belmarsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Lbu-EycAs
There has been talk about what ties of obligation there are in feudalism. But I didn’t see yeomen mentioned –
yeoman, in English history, a class intermediate between the gentry and the labourers; a yeoman was usually a landholder but could also be a retainer, guard, attendant, or subordinate official.
yeoman | English social class – Encyclopedia Britannica
https://www.britannica.com › topic › yeoman
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/463985/z-energy-shareholders-unanimously-support-acquisition-by-australian-fuel-company
2:23 pm on 25 March 2022
The country’s largest fuel retailer is one step closer to coming under Australian ownership.
(So what motor fuel company do we own now? Word wiggles – notice that won, own, now, all have the same letters. Out of the same three you letter word you can make more. It’s a sort of example of how an economic m,ultiplier works.) Perhaps it could be used as s a wee break from intense cogitation in a Master of Business class. Perhaps a musical break too.
This song might be right for Auckland which is getting new rail perhaps.
The Kingston Trio were great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh994JcEfkI
48, Martyn? Started the Mana Party? Yep, I’ve always thought of you as the 2nd generation of we social democratic objectors to free- marketism. Sorry for my ageism. I’m full of prejudices from not having too much to do with society apart from my well-off customers. Go among them as Jesus said. You’re doing the lord’s work, so to speak.
I criticised you on 3 points. I don’t resile.
Tell me, what is wrong with my comments at the 3 Left blogs except I dig too much at the bloggers? Am I a bad social democrat? Too funny. They prefer right-wingers to me. Free speechers to a ‘man’.