Meh.
BLAH BLAH BLAH…
Government Investing In 1000 More Teachers And Student Learning Affected By COVID-19 – NZ Government
…the exact same dynamics destroying Nursing are destroying teaching!
The user pays mantra that sees domestic Kiwis train, rack up enormous debt and then flee overseas to pay that debt up sums up the new social contract between the State and its Citizens, which is, ‘fuck you, pay me’.
We need to return to the egalitarian structures that built this nation, not the free market hate fuck it’s become.
The latest nothing announcement by Labour over the Teacher shortage is the same failed experiments of recruitment in a free market.
This plan will train 300 domestic kiwis as Teachers while importing 700.
This has all the vision of a blind cyclops.
We need to do for Teachers what we need to do for Nurses, bonding!
Do it the way we used to do it!
Education/Training for Nursing and Teachers and Drs and Scientists should be free to NZ citizens in exchange for a period of bonded employment to New Zealand.
Alongside a comprehensive allowance to live on, payment once bonded and accommodation as we send you around the country working where needed.
This alongside better long term conditions and 4 day working weeks is what the State needs to offer to make these professions, (professions that are essential to the function of this country by the way), more attractive.
How do we pay for this you ask?
I’M GLAD YOU DID ASK!
if you support the Firefighters, Nurses, Teachers and Drs you should be demanding a financial transaction tax and legalised cannabis!
For too long the right have managed to keep the tax yoke on the workers rather than the corporations and banks.
We can’t spend more because the neoliberal orthodoxy keeps amputating the State’s ability to raise revenue.
By implementing a financial transaction tax, by implementing a windfall tax on Banks, we take the yoke of taxation off individuals and place it squarely on the success of those who’ve profited most from a stable economic environment.
A financial transaction tax would raise enough revenue for us to reduce GST down to 10%!
A windfall tax on Banks would fund better health and education!
If cannabis were legalised, the New Zealand industry could employ about 5000 people and reap almost $1.1 billion in taxes a year, two in-depth reports by Business and Economic Research Ltd have shown.
If we want to fund our Firefighters, Nurses, Teachers and Drs with better wages and conditions then we need to raise the revenue and that should be off the back of the richest, not the poorest!
Until we on the Left take the economic side seriously, we will be a movement that can only virtue signal our pronouns and chocolate bar wrapper’s in Māori to an increasingly alienated voter.
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they really don’t like it when workers say
‘fuck you pay me’
we need an NZ mick lynch.
With the debacle of so many working people in NZ, not being paid on time, aka novopay and IT payment systems gone bad that stops teachers being paid, I was pleasantly surprised to find out a rare policy to rebalance a NZ problem of serial late payments. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/big-businesses-to-be-made-to-disclose-how-quickly-they-pay-invoices/HQW5FICMAJ4CJL3YEIYXLAZXGI/
The only way they got the wage subsidies back was to make it transparent. Companies that were quick to claim millions, then decided to pay it back as they actually didn’t qualify.
And before anything else, do something about the very real stresses current education ideology imposes on teachers. The requirements, for example, for teachers to maintain their professional registration are ridiculous and sap teachers’ time and energy to work on the most important thing – providing quality teaching and learning opportunities to their classes. As a retired primary principal I look with horror on the current primary education system and there’s no way I’d recommend teaching to any one looking for a career. The job is too hard and the cost to teachers’ physical and mental health is far too great. I also am in full agreement that we need to return to the teacher education system that was in place at the start of my career – paid to study and guaranteed employment for the first three years after graduation, with a bond imposed as you suggest. Further take the teacher education courses back from the universities and reinstate teachers colleges, as was the case in the past, to improve the quality of pre service teacher education.
Even with all of those changes, until such time as middle class workers, teachers, nurses etcetera, can actually afford a middle class lifestyle, particularly in terms of housing, then the trajectory for No Zealand society is only going to be downward. Sad. But true.
Apparently some families now spend 28% of their income on transport, so maybe we need to look at increasing wages to 5x house prices and similar to utilities and transport.
They have subsidised the construction industry to death and find it impossible to build houses any cheaper (1000 monkeys unable to write Shakespeare), thus they need to raise wages, and fast to be in line with OZ wages.
This will help skills shortages and brain drain.
We can assess the world’s cheap labour, but we can’t make them build, teach or nurse better. NZ standards of care are dropping with a diet of cheap labour and massive management overheads everywhere.
Already NZ has been voted 2nd worst place in world to work from migrants surveys.
All part of the plan to increase the voter base. Less educated populations rely more on state handouts. NZ used to be about self-sufficiency. No more.
The great replacement? Jesus Christ, you are a fuckwit.
More racism from the North Shore Sour Kraut?
Just can’t help yourself verdammte rooinek
Totally agree Alan. Furthermore the idiots that are employed by the Teachers’ Council- top to bottom – are a huge part of the problem.
Agree with both Alan and you, Cantabrian. (!)
I agree Bomber. Did you see the announcement yesterday that they are now appointing non teachers as teachers to fill the gaps. Entirely predictable.
I really dont understand why we cant have a financial transaction tax, we have ruled out everything else. And even though I loathe the idea, a small inheritance tax on those with significant estates wouldnt be the worse thing with family home exempt up to a decent level.
In the Uk, its 40%!!! on everything above about NZ$650K. unless you are leaving a home to your family to live in, in which case the value has to be no more than a million. With their population, imagine the amount of money that raises each year.
NZ has to cut its cloth to meet its purse but we also need to concede to a large extra tax of some sort. I believe it should come from the top end but it has to come from somewhere and GST must come off food. It being too difficult is BS. There is a bit off work on the front end but then it’s easy enough and it is a huge and necessary boon to the poorest. Other countries manage it.
It surely can’t be beyond the government’s knowledge to calculate how many teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers, and whatever other professions the country is short of, and offer free tertiary education and all that goes with it to the best and brightest secondary school graduates. These people could then be bonded to the state for a minimum period to pay for their education. This could be funded by a capital gains tax, a windfall tax, raising the tax level for the very rich while allowing a $20,000 tax-free allowance for every taxpayer in the country. Getting rid of all the ‘fluff’ degrees being offered (media studies etc) by our universities would also free up space. Surely this is common sense?
It all started with the deregulation of tertiary education.
Polytechs need to become polytechs and unis need to become unis again.
Maybe it really is 1984-1990 playing out again? And maybe Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble are still in charge of the labour cabinet & caucus!?
If they’re not then their mini mees are and are definitely following their lead.
I guess 3 Waters is the “Fire Sale” of the century!
So what’s this about teachers and nurses? What are they whining about now?
That’s what I was thinking
Calling absolute bullshi!t Tane on your right-wing, gobshite revisionism of neoliberal history. Even Wikipedia proves you wrong on many counts Tane/Male/Man,+not+Female/Woman/Thinker.
No argument that ACT infiltrated Labour 1984 to 1988….. then ACT and National has gone and will go hand in hand with ACT from 1988 to 2022 and will be coalition partners beyond. There were even discussions about David Seymour leading the National Party and beyond! David Seymour put out his100 – day Coalition Plan for National and ACT:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/07/david-seymour-s-plan-for-first-100-days-in-national-act-coalition.html
ACT and NATIONAL after 1988
From 1988 on, there is a deliberate and planned symbiotic, parasitic relationship between National and ACT. Neoliberalism goes hand in hand with National and ACT. Their policies are so alike.
The name ACT comes from the initials of the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, founded in 1993 by Sir Roger Douglas and Derek Quigley….
then…..
Don Brash National and ACT
1988 2002 Reserve Bank Governor
2002–2005 47th List 5 National
2005–2007 48th List 1 National
April 2011, still a National Party member ACT Party Leader
Roger Douglas National and ACT
2008–2011 49th List MP for ACT
John Banks National and ACT
1990–1993 43rd Whangarei National
1993–1996 44th Whangarei National
1996–1999 45th Whangarei National
2011–2014 50th Epsom ACT
Richard Prebble National and ACT
Leader ACT from 1996 to 2004….
1996–1999 ACT
1999–2002 ACT
2002–2005 ACT
How many alliances between ACT and Labour between 1988 and 2022 NONE – ZERO – ZILCH
You better get your right-wing pals at DPHQ (Dirty Politics Head Quarters) to delete all the links between National and ACT, that were clearly shown through a cursory glance of Wikipedia.
Why have you got Harry Houdini as your image? Tane/Male/Man/Plagiarist+not+Female/Woman/Harry?
What Maori tribe was Harry from then?
If you righties and your NACT Alliance love Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble so much, you should use one or more of their their pictures instead of Harry Houdini’s?
@Tane++/–
Wi Pedia does has a valid point though Tane. ACT and National are way more compatible ideological bedfellows, than ACT and Labour. And Wi’s research does show clear links between ACT and National.
Many world socialist governments were infiltrated by socially destructive and evil Chicago School of Economics’ Neoliberals in the 1980’s and National’s Rob Muldoon was a block for ACT ultra-right wing policies to take official root within a coalition with its natural political ally, The National Party.
Good research Wi, thanks for your efforts.
Bollocks Chris Luxon fd
ACT has a great plan to make New Zealand Great Again, and it needs to get rid of creeping socialism and low expectations of work and high expectations of ‘money for nothing and your drugs for free’ that have thrived under Labour and Greens:
Here’s the plan. In its first 100 days in Government, ACT would:
1 Repeal Three Waters, returning ownership to councils
2 Repeal the Māori Health Authority
3 Reserve Bank Act changes: Giving the Reserve Bank two targets (price stability and employment) with one tool (the Official Cash Rate), was illogical. These changes have let inflation back and should be reversed
4 Scrap the 39c tax rate and we should simplify to a two-rate tax system as in ACT’s Real Change Budget
5 Stop the Public Interest Journalism Fund. At $55 million over two years it’s not large enough to help or hinder the media as much as many suspects. However, it is pernicious enough to destroy faith and trust in our institutions
6 Repeal the Zero Carbon Act along with it goes the associated ute tax and the Tesla subsidies
7 Mortgage interest deductibility, the bright-line test, and Residential Tenancies Act changes would go
8 Bring back 90-day trials
9 Bring back three strikes
10 Bring back charter schools
11 Overturn the ban on oil and gas exploration
12 Get rid of so-called Fair Pay Agreements
13 Get rid of hate speech laws (if introduced before the election)
14 Nullify changes to live animal export bans
15 Nullify the anti-property right Crown Pastoral Lease reforms
Oranga Tamariki – Section 7AA, says it’s more important a child is placed with its iwi than anything else, it would go.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/07/david-seymour-s-plan-for-first-100-days-in-national-act-coalition.html
National agree because they need a coalition party to govern
The free market has failed along with those Rogernomes who introduced the concept. Unfortunately those Neoliberals who started all this continue to recruit new blood to carry it on down the generations. But who are these new Neoliberals the younger ones who keep the dogma going and where are they the corporates or just general society ? Also are there enough to keep this system going long-term ie enough to stop change?
The goverment had a chance to chop Tomorrow’s Schools, where all these issues stemmed from, but the rich schools kicked up a huge fuss, and they bottled it.
Ol’ roger the rat aye… His short legged legacy just keeps lingering like a fart in a book shop.
In my humble opinion, AO/NZ needs a royal commission of inquiry into our economy but also our politics. roger rat rooted our politics. He got his little rat rod out and fucked us all with it. Until we grow up to see that, then to U turn back to fix it, nothing will improve, all will be lost and we’ll end up as a deep-south state of the capitalist fascism aka the U$A as a two island aircraft carrier for the U$A military industrial complex. “Whoop! Holler mutha fucka! ”
‘Team America-World Police.’ If you haven’t seen this, you’re seriously missing out. The sex scene was especially fantastic! Warning! Contains a grave risk of dying of laughing.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/team_america_world_police
RNZ.
Spies in Queenstown. ( Arrowtown actually.)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/474753/five-eyes-in-queenstown-top-spies-jet-in-for-gathering
I mean c’mon. Surely even the most waxed and bleached of you can see that there’s something seriously wrong with AO/NZ. We have at least nine multi billionaires and we’re ok that our government drags the chain when nurses and teachers need a bit of spare cash. I mean, what the fuck is that about? ( I can tell you what that’s about. It’s about as lot no longer having steerage of our democracy. That’s what that’s about and that’s why, while we’re still a member of the British Commonwealth, we need a royal commission of inquiry. Just don’t tell ‘The City of London’. ‘The Spiders Web.’ https://youtu.be/np_ylvc8Zj8 Big thanks to Malcolm Evans.)
“In my humble opinion, AO/NZ needs a royal commission of inquiry into our economy but also our politics.”
Yes! let’s form a committee! It’s the Nu Zild way. 😉
Too late RC, the knighthoods for state-asset theft and robbery, have all been given out to the State Asset Robbers and Perps.
Unless King Charles III, the socialist, gives his seal of approval for a Royal Commission?
I’d support a Royal Commission, if KCIII promises to rescind the knighthoods if theft of state assets is proven (which it will be).
Another bottom line for me would be:
The BNZ Art Work funds should have been returned to pay reparations to the victims of neoliberalism.
Assets of the ACT Gang (1984 – 2022+) and its “associates” in National from 1988 to 2022 and Labour for 1984 to 1988, to be seized to pay reparations to the victims of neoliberalism.
Pay reparations, or get rid of NZ/AO GST and introduce FTC, a financial transactions charge (or what we would colloquially call, a Fairer Charlesian Tax.
You know, I’d vote for a party that promised to refund GST, or give it to the poor, or build Kainga Ora housing in Remuera (Winston).
I’d even vote for a party that promised to reduce GST (Labour)
I’d never vote for a that promised to lie about not putting UP GST
John Key’s lies (https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/06/04/435-lies-by-john-key/)
LIE 27.I won’t raise GST
LIE 28.people who are on the average wage and have a child are $48 a week better off after the rise in GST
LIE 352.If you think about iTunes, if you download a song and it’s $1.29, there’s no reason the GST shouldn’t apply to that. In reality, GST would be 2 cents
I would never vote for a party whose policy is to raise indirect tax (20%), standardize income tax(20%) and lower business tax rates (20%).
As for VFF, Destiny and the 4 Umbrellas of the Apocalypse, they have said they want to make NZ/AO “UNGOVERNABLE”, so that means? WTF knows. WTF cares!
there’s only EPNS left in the family silver draw