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| Thread ID: 108299 | 2010-03-23 01:21:00 | All of a sudden, I'm glad I voted National this time.... | Peterj116 (6762) | PC World Chat |
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| 869282 | 2010-03-23 07:05:00 | Christine Rankin tried. Not sure on the correct spelling. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 869283 | 2010-03-23 07:24:00 | Plenty of cleavage though. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 869284 | 2010-03-23 07:36:00 | We are in great shortage of labourers (jobs that will dirty your hands, clothings, etc.) but local 'kiwis' are not interested. Only immigrants will take up those kind of jobs - that's because they can't get a job in the office, not because they are not qualified but usually over-qualified. lol. Same happened in the UK so the Jamaicans, Africans, Indians etc came and took those jobs then when they were all filled the whites moaned about it yet they wouldn't do the jobs in the first place. I have an injury that will mean me having to give up my job either this year or next year, I doubt if I can survive to the year after as it is getting painful again. I have been studying part time to try and get an office job hopefully in the same industry as that would make the most sense but at the moment it is not looking hopeful, I am trying to hang in there long enough for things to pick up as I don't want to go on the DPB or Sickness benefit |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 869285 | 2010-03-23 08:04:00 | Apple picking time here in Hawkes Bay. I drive all over Napier/Hastings area in my retirement job, and see picking gangs arriving, working at or leaving from the orchards. Guess where they come from? 'taint here mate!!! Fiji by the look of them! I am told they work very hard and do an excellent job. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 869286 | 2010-03-23 08:14:00 | I'd really like those women on the DPB to name the fathers so at least maintenance can be sought. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 869287 | 2010-03-23 08:16:00 | I'd really like those women on the DPB to name the fathers so at least maintenance can be sought. I prefer these women to remain silent:D |
plod (107) | ||
| 869288 | 2010-03-23 08:28:00 | Lets get the work shy into Jobs - instead of allowing them to ride on the welfare gravy train. Great Idea. Well first create the jobs, should be easy, its just that no-one is trying hard enough. People under the age of 25 will probably not know of a time when New Zealand manufactured goods - in those halcyon days a large proportion of the goods on sale were actually made in NZ, not in Taiwan, China, Phillipines etc etc. We had new Zealanders in work, enjoying the self esteem of supporting themselves and their families. Then along comes Rogernomics - great in theory - in practise it hasn't been quite so good. We shouldn't manufacture anything that can be more economically can be made overseas ( not offshore - because we are talking about the work being done on land -in another country outside the 200nm economic zone) So suddenly our clothing industry, our footwear industry, our Rubber goods industry, our electronic industry, you name it ,they went, all shifted to low cost, frequently third world countries throwing Mew Zealanders out of work in the process. The great cost efficiencies were not passed on to New Zealanders, unless they were shareholders in the companies who were now making bumper profits because their manufacturing operations were now being done with low cost foreign labour. The trouble was goods to the New Zealand consumer did not get dramatically cheaper. Ron Brierley actually got to put SIR in front of his name for exporting a record number of NZ jobs - that was in the days before he stuffed up Air New Zealand and almost sent it broke. The businessmen picked up the profit, the taxpayer picked up the social cost of the businessmen's new found profits NZ Laour force statistics are as follows for 2009. Service - 74% of the labour force Not too much room for growth there if one thinks about it almost 3/4 of the workforce providing services for their fellow citizens - and this hardly creates national wealth. There is a limited demand for shop assiatnts, supermarket shelf stackers, waiters etc. And the professions in the service sector are just about saturated, apart from Health professionals. Agriculture 7.0% of the labour force - Arguably Kiwis are the most efficient pastoral farmers in the world, so if we are to create any great increase in jobs in this sector, significantly more land has to be brought into production. Manufacturing Industries - 19% of the Labour Force It once was a much higher percentage in the years BR (Befoire rogernomics)- but everyone has a fixation on cheap goods from Asia. Note that NZ icon F&P exported their manufacturing to Thailand, Mexico etc Buy New Zealand made - create work by supporting those who make goods in New Zealand - they may be dearer, but they give the respectability of worthwhile employment to your fellow New Zealanders |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 869289 | 2010-03-23 08:39:00 | F&P had to do something they were in deep financial guano 18 months ago. Communist chinese stuff just flooding the market cant do anything about it now Before that it was Nationalist chinese stuff before that hong kong stuff before that jap stuff. Who knows the next manufacturing tiger might be Albania. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 869290 | 2010-03-23 08:49:00 | [QUOTE=KenESmith;887946... throwing Mew Zealanders out of work ...[/QUOTE] There are plenty of works out there just that 'kiwis' are fussy - they only want to stay in the comfortable office gossiping. 'Dirty' jobs are not for them, they are for the new 'highly qualified' immigrants. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 869291 | 2010-03-23 08:52:00 | Same happened in the UK so the Jamaicans, Africans, Indians etc came and took those jobs then when they were all filled the whites moaned about it yet they wouldn't do the jobs in the first place. ................. It wasn't really like that at all...that is popular urban myth which has taken hold..I know, I was there. There were numerous factors at work. After the war the emphasis was on rebuilding the cities, infrastructure, housing, getting the factories back to peacetime production, government exhortation to export or die, repay war loans. Women who had driven the buses during the war and had worked in factories left and started having babies..the baby boomers. There was a shortage of skilled and semi skilled labour in all trades, wages kept rising, people swapped jobs to where they could get more. Boys left school and straight into work/apprenticeships, there was very little unemployment...just the reverse (We had Italian and German ex-POWs for example in large numbers working as brick layers and builders.) Why sweep the roads or clean public toilets for £3 or £4 a week when they could get £5 at Lucas's cleaning swarf out of machines and making morning tea, or drive a bus for £5 when they could get more driving for British Road Services, or a Lucas driver ? :) Then the Jamaicans who had been brought up touching their forelocks to the glorious British Empire and singing God Save The King, thought they'd share in the some of the gold paved streets, they were British citizens after all. So they came in ever increasing numbers and filled the bus driving vacancies, and the cleaning vacancies etc. www.youtube.com Anyway, it was much more complex than the simplistic stories that the indigenous Brits didn't want to do dirty work, so 'they' had to bring in the Jamaicans, Indians etc to do those jobs. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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