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| Thread ID: 145795 | 2018-01-30 00:03:00 | Warning: Political Content | Terry Porritt (14) | PC World Chat |
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| 1445681 | 2018-01-30 17:57:00 | Yes and before that their main entertainment was to live short lives and kill and eat one another. You cannot just pick out the bits of history you like and ignore all the rest even though it is popular to do so in the current PC climate. Why not that is what everyone else is doing in this thread |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1445682 | 2018-01-30 18:29:00 | Why not that is what everyone else is doing in this thread :) |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1445683 | 2018-01-30 18:50:00 | Yes and before that their main entertainment was to live short lives and kill and eat one another. . The main entertainment of all groups of humans was to live short lives and kill each other, then. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1445684 | 2018-01-30 20:24:00 | The main entertainment of all groups of humans was to live short lives and kill each other, then. It has not changed a lot in a large part of the world now either although, so far as I know, we give the cannibalism a miss as a general rule. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1445685 | 2018-01-30 20:38:00 | For goodness sake. :groan: No Government can give to anybody, anything, they don’t first take from somebody else. Now, which of you want to contribute? :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1445686 | 2018-01-30 20:56:00 | I have quite a beef about the Accommodation Suppliment. Sure, in many cases it is needed in addition to other benefits / wages, but it also has the effect of skewing the entire rental and housing market. It's gives greedy landlords greater leaway to increase the rents. They needn't care if its unaffordable or unreasonable if there's a govt hand-out to make the higher rate artificially 'affordable' again. This subsidy in turn makes rental investment more profitable, and in turn also halps feed this house price madness we've seen the last few years. It woun't correct itself if govts just keep throwing more money into the suppliment. It needs to start with making tenants unable to afford these rip off rents (potentially already happening), which in turn (if there wasn't the housing shortage) should eventually lead to vacant rentals costing landlords money, and making them reconsider the entire 'business' model. Problem is, the pain needs to start with innocent families at the bottom before it is ever felt by the sucky landlords. The only other solution is to provide a massive supply of state housing, but while it has the potential to correct a lot of imbalances over time, it could also create dense pockets of crime and create future ghettos... hardly the place any responsible parent would wish to raise their kids. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1445687 | 2018-01-30 23:47:00 | Why not that is what everyone else is doing in this thread QED That's a good reason to wrap up this futile thread |
bonzo29 (2348) | ||
| 1445688 | 2018-01-31 00:04:00 | I have quite a beef about the Accommodation Suppliment. .......... 10 years old but interesting reading. ;) HERE (www.parliament.nz) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1445689 | 2018-01-31 01:48:00 | "Yes and before that their main entertainment was to live short lives and kill and eat one another. You cannot just pick out the bits of history you like and ignore all the rest even though it is popular to do so in the current PC climate." It sounds a pretty logical result to me, considering the situation at the time, given the shortage of land, animals to provide sufficient protein, and an expanding population. Of course these conditions did not last after the Europeans arrived and killed off huge numbers of the locals with the diseases they were carrying. Also exporting nutritionally sub-grade food to the Islands has not helped matters much and we can see what it is doing to their lifespan here and in New Zealand |
Laggard (17509) | ||
| 1445690 | 2018-01-31 01:58:00 | Also exporting nutritionally sub-grade food to the Islands has not helped matters much and we can see what it is doing to their lifespan here and in New Zealand There is nobody forcing them to overeat it. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
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