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Hipkins reiterated a promise to reinstate smokefree legislation
He is also eyeing compulsory Kiwisaver and higher contributions.
What is it with Labour? Always wanting to tell people what to do. Voters don’t like that. Most would prefer to retain the right to make up their own minds.
If people can’t afford to save, do Labour think forcing them to is going to gain them (Labour) support?
Why would Hipkins talk about taxing unrealised gains when trying to sell a new tax policy?
Why would he suggest a new tax when he’s yet to have actually constructed a new tax policy?
Does he want National to fill Labour’s new tax policy void with negative policy speculation, turning voters off it before its even been formulated?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350405328/labour-paving-way-capital-gains-or-wealth-tax
Hipkins has been indoctrinated in authoritarian type top-down control. He looks like the senior prefect from school, with confusion about what he is trying to achieve, but enjoying the status. He is part of the new LABour party, small n, mixed pro/nouns. which has lost its earlier navigation maps.
There were early maps with numbers of phantom islands on the seas that showed up because of anomalies in climate – inversion. Labur on land has no such excuse. It’s just a gang of fast-talking grifters, learned their trade from the UK, (ousted Corbett there) and no interest in old-fashioned hard yakker, that’s not cool in the new tech days, which could be described as perversion.
If Muldoon’s National hadn’t the killed Kirk government’s Super scheme and begun a process that hugely increased the national debt and bring on the horror of Rogernomics, then in terms of pointing fingers you wouldn’t be in a position to bait and switch.
About If, brace oneself with old-fashioned imperialist Rudyard Kipling’s 1895 poem which is still meaningful.
https://poets.org/poem/if
…If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;…
“If Muldoon’s National hadn’t the killed Kirk governments super scheme” we would have a massive sovereign wealth fund like Norway’s and all our problems would be solved. Thanks Nats.
‘Aboot’ not allowing a general talk-fest (here) for the people beyond tomorrow, headlined with a picture of a solidarity march?
I will never see a response to this. So contradictory. The people’s movement is about expansion. It is an indictment of you and all the Left talkathon. See how few responses Trotter gets. See how few are for the people anywhere — cos of this small business psychology of the raddled Left talkery.
Why don’t you think up something concrete that might be done sumsuch? You are confused and bewildered and tell us so – but then we all are. Tell us something that leads to something real and sturdy we might/could do.
Here some thoughts about bewilderment and her writing from a Canadian author Naomi Rachel. https://canlit.ca/article/the-home-of-the-bewildered/
…I agree with Ernest Hemingway who said, “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
If unhappiness and bewilderment with the status quo can be signs of intelligence, then certainly we shouldn’t lock up those who can’t cope. They are unhappy and bewildered by inhumanity, but they are certainly not insane. So I created a place for Austin, Mary Marilyn, James and others. I put them in the home for the bewildered. A place where those who struggle with our purpose and our flaws can survive—even if thriving isn’t possible…
If we could get our heads together and think practically maybe good would come. Thriving may be possible. FGS get thinking and stop meandering.
Why are these two news items linked? Do we understand the way things are shaping up?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/527256/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-draft-english-and-maths-curriculums
Should a five-year-old be able to count to 10 and accurately describe shapes?
The draft Year 0-6 English and Year 0-8 maths curriculums expect they will be able to do that, and more, after six months at school.
and
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/527263/pandoro-wellington-closes-after-nearly-three-decades
The owner of Pandoro Wellington has announced its closure after nearly three decades in business.
A note in the store window from director Tony Beazley said it had just become too tough to keep its three bakeries open.
“The economic downturn, customers working from home, the redundancies in the public sector, cycle lanes and the Wellington City Council are all contributors,” it said…
Is there a connection with older people being numerate from the old maths system, and now? Perhaps there is no need to count at all if hands-on stuff is out of date with the device doing it all. If we expect people to be so clever with figures, why can’t we get things right so old known businesses and services don’t fall away?