This one tone deaf image from Paul Goldsmith manages to sum up all that is wrong with Budget 2025.
After taking $12billion from workers to literally hand over $6billion to bosses while gutting $650million from Māori and $20million from RNZ holding them to account, the Free Market Rich Pricks celebrate with champaign and Hors d’oeuvre’s.
Not a marmite sandwich in sight.
This anti-Treaty, anti-worker, anti-Māori, anti-environment, anti-renter, anti-beneficiary Government who has molested the common good for their donors interests are beneath our collective man.
We are a better people than what they have made us into and by Christ we need to vote these venal pricks out next year!
Choke on your wine and cheese puffs arseholes!
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It’s vomit inducing.
No NZ government National or Labour could tolerate such a large fiscal risk to be determined by judges. Decisions of the magnitude have to be made by politicians. No one appears to have thought through the implications. If the 12b was allocated to pay equity it would undoubtedly impact other areas reducing or eliminating what is potentially available for other causes. These trade offs are at the core of politics. Judges don’t have the remit or ability to make these calls. Does anyone think that teachers are the most deserving of redress from an equity perspective?
So you support women and men doing woman’s work being paid less then.
Creating a division between men and women and causing them to compete against each other in the workforce is a major mistake. Whose dumb idea was this anyway? I only see diversity quotas in large corporate companies; they are already successful, and wage growth is very poor. There are no diversity quotas in smaller businesses.
With women in the workforce, the mantra should be a two-income household. The upper-middle-class budget should be enough; they can pay a cleaner to come in and do all the household chores, similar to what happened in Singapore when their incomes spiked. Men don’t want to do women’s work; it’s women who want to do men’s work.
The National have got its own agenda that it hides behind lovely slogans that it was Labour’s fault. They cant bullshit anymore. The National Party has opened itself up to some vicious attacks; they are vulnerable on their own core beliefs of family, religion and business.
A soon as Chippy is reinstalled as PM petrol prices have to come down on average 50 cents. Hopefully, Kerian was briefed on this in Australia Labour’s recent election victory. Again, what’s driving up energy prices is our lack of funded alternatives. And no, nuclear is not an option. It’s a lot more expensive than people think, and it’s iffy if we could even train or hire enough nuclear engineers.
On so many levels, this budget is way off. It doesn’t even address its own growth agenda. More people are leaving New Zealand than are immigrating to it. It’s not a grown budget, it’s an inflation budget.
I guess this comment is just me wishing Chippie had more public school in him. In anycase I think Chippie has the necessary requirements to give the public not what they want but what they need.
Chippie you mean that man who is afraid of his own shadow. He is a gutless bastard! There is only a cigarette paper between Labour and National. Neither of the main parties will ever get us back on track because they are wedded to endless growth. It has to stop somewhere.
We’ve already established that neither hyper-dense megacities nor diffused rural living are particularly resource efficient, and a lot of that inefficiency represents a subset of economic activity that would just go away. Now it might be replaced by other activities, but whether that would be measured in the same way is a big question.
Look, I’m by default sceptical of capitalism, I’m mostly choosing to be contrarian in regards to degrowth for the sake of this blog, not just being a giant circle jerk.
But it says something, societally, on a leftwing forum that is all of a suden dedicated to speculation on the human condition and possible human socities, that the very idea of achieving a state of economic stability is so inconceivable, so dreadful, that even asking someone to imagine it results in an immediate and confident ‘I choose death.’
NZ’s debt to GDP is low. The 12b to pay equity should have gone ahead and the billions offered to business could have been borrowed given National’s reasoning that investing in business has a great return, resulting in jobs. Or is this simply a theory. Right wing governments through the ages have sided with businesses and promote low wage economies. This is why they despise unions, because they push back.
Thank you Charles. The endless horseshit about government debt while further forcing average Kiwis into debt is one of the biggest cons that keeps being perpetuated
You are absolutely correct Charles.
Nevertheless despite your correct explanation, many on this site, will fail to comprehend.
What your saying is we can’t risk doing pay equity and we have to trade pay equity for women off because of other priorities! Well said by a man who will never be effected.
Putting women to work started as a choice, now it’s an obligation. twice the workforce, twice the taxes, the higher the consumer prices, the greater the consumer debt. Obviously, we can’t send women back to the kitchen. But neither can the left promote the virtues of single-parent households. Incomes simply can not support single-income households when all the wage increases have largely gone into rising property prices, taxation and food and energy price inflation, making women in work not just an obligation but damn you fem bots just cant be reasoned with.
It comes down to the fact that raising children sucks, and many people don’t wont do it given a choice. Earlier, this was solved with inequality, ie, giving women the least life-threatening job, delegating the duties of the house to them, while having no choice but to risk their lives building up every modern comfort.
Relaxed with glass of expensive wine in hand and smug smirks after a hard day betraying the working people of Aotearoa.
‘Oh for a muse of fire” – Also a Revolution, a Peoples Tribunal and a firing squad.
stevie Reading you made me suddenly think of Dylan Thomas. This seems to fit into your mood, and is so well told – so let the bell not be tolled for thee or me! How do you like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-sM-t1KI_Y 2m+
Michael Sheen performs ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ by Dylan Thomas
I think this is the song for our untreasured Mini of Finance with greetings from Queen who understand the mortification.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTLCjAo97aQ
Killer Queen 3m
What’s missing from the image? A wall banner with the words: “Let them eat cake!”
Let them eat tax cuts for the landlords. Mary Antoinette 2025
Mintaro named, so dopey commenters like me talk about holes in the middle. Aha fooled you – I am going to refer to your muddle, your simple-minded, falsefied economics garble.
…If the 12b was allocated to pay equity it would undoubtedly impact other areas reducing or eliminating what is potentially available for other causes. These trade offs are at the core of politics. Judges don’t have the remit or ability to make these calls. Does anyone think that teachers are the most deserving of redress from an equity perspective?
This is akin to pollies talking about national economics being the same as puny households. We can only just understand our own and why we have to prove that we are ourselves these days, before doing anything. So how can ours be the same as rubbing bums with international financiers? You need to come down from your high horse – before it throws you – and you can take your Sancho Panzas back to their reservation with you where they can mix with their white and many-coloured blood brothers of the cult of ocular money dysmorphia, plutomania, avariciousness, which implies obsessive acquisitiveness, becoming a plutophile. Is there a cure for this disease I wonder distractedly, as I wander through the mass of words that abound?
Read up about this bloke’s tale. Get your further education now you are old enough to understand and meditate on the world and its doings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
A member of the lowest nobility, an hidalgo[e] from La Mancha named Alonso Quijano, who reads so many chivalric
romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha.[b] He recruits as his squire a simple farm labourer, Sancho Panza.. [from a book considered by] many well-known authors as the “best novel of all time”[d] and the “best and most central work in world literature”…
Then read this Stuff article from May 2015, good commentary then and still, from Rod Stock.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/68897748/financial-amass-culation-and-other-terms-defining-modern-money-lives
In a 2009 Listener, during a National period in power 2008-2017, a sad story. Centred round the collapse of a finance company Blue Chip, a couple lost all their security for the future. and the man had to return to dairy farming at age 70. One heading says ‘In the past three years, 150,000 New Zealanders have lost their retirement savings as 40 finance companies went belly-up.’
We seem doomed to remain short poppies as we don’t get the chance
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