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| Thread ID: 74448 | 2006-11-23 00:32:00 | Brash resigns | leonidas5 (2306) | PC World Chat |
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| 501328 | 2006-11-30 10:28:00 | Can someone obtain other people's property (emails in this instance) without the owner's knowledge and publish it? It breaches one's privacy and it's theft as well. What about his right of reply on what has been written of him. He surely is not perfect but Labour members are not any better. So what if Don works with the brethren. For the brethrens (who says they are a group of businessmen acting on their own) who are willing to throw so much of their money, there must be something very wrong with the present policies of the existing government. People are just fedup and will do anything to see a change in power. I am not saying National is any better. It's between the devil and the deep blue sea. It's the middle to low income earner that suffers most. My increment is 3.5% but prices of everything has gone up - insurance, petrol, electricity, water, rates, rent, etc. The 3.5% is not even enough to cover the increase. Some of my friends do not even have any pay adjustment. We all have been doing welfare work all along. Now they want my money for the stadium. When they present the World Cup bid there was no mention that we are paying for the stadium. I feel the government should foot the whole bill. Who will benefit from having the stadium - the businesses and the government, of course. With 11.5b surplus, what should the priority be when things are in shambles - roading, poor public transport, high crime rates, pharmac issues, health board issues, education issues, etc. We should the basic right first before anything else - health, security and education. |
Taurus (9579) | ||
| 501329 | 2006-11-30 10:40:00 | I instinctively don't like Don Brash, I didn't like the look of him when I first saw him years ago and I don't like him now. He is the epitome of the "company man", soulless, rule following, venal, unable to conjure up an original thought. That he got to the positions he did is an indictment on NZ in general. That he listened to bad advice from the vipers nest he inhabits is just what I would expect, and that he is now betrayed and cast aside is his just comeuppance. It leads me to trust my instincts even more and to hold fast to the idea that the "suits" and all they represent are anathema to me. I don't want anyone to think that I hate such an inconsequential little fellow such as him, I just despise what he represents. In the end you get what you deserve. What a pity the policies he enforced whilst head of the Treasury will have long-lasting effects on the NZ economy the full extent of which we still have not fully appreciated, as the manufacturing heart of the country, such as it was, has been torn asunder by the right wing idiotic monetarist philosophies and yet like Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble he will just get away with it, probably on a sweet retirement fund. May he and all his ilk be revealed as the "Hollow Men" they truly are. Not a true leader just a middle management fraudster who does not see the big picture, and I should know, I have met and worked for so many of these incompetents in my life. I spit on them all. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 501330 | 2006-11-30 10:45:00 | The EB are a bunch of right wing religious wallies and Don was in cahoots with them. Peculiar reasoning Taurus to say that the greater the amount of $ thrown against a govt the more rightful that effort is. Many happy breakfasts zqwerty, I agree with you...m |
mark c (247) | ||
| 501331 | 2006-11-30 12:09:00 | If it's true then they no longer have a lily-livered, weak-limbed, pansified, reptile minded, dishonest, ill-informed, wet-pants, hopeless, triple-thumbed, incoherent girl's blouse as a leader. You are so poetic Greg. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 501332 | 2006-11-30 12:12:00 | Brash is a bean counter, not a politician. It is a pity that he didn't realise this before politics destroyed him. I think that he was just a puppet, but I have no idea who was pulling his strings. Ruthless Ruth was one of the puppeteers. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 501333 | 2006-11-30 12:17:00 | Good, lets hope National has a lot more years of disarray with yet another incompetent leader. Key looks like a real nazi, right wing a...hole they have no chance with him at the helm. Cool, Brash nearly won the last election, the National Party makes another strategic mistake, another one of many, makes one wonder how they manage to run their businesses and profit when they seem so incompetent in general. At least National manages to keep in profit as a party unlike Labour. If they can't manage their own finances how do you truely expect them to handle the countries finances properly. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 501334 | 2006-11-30 12:21:00 | I see that idiot English is gunning for the No.1 job in National again. If they re-employ him they may as well just send an email to The Herald and declare Helen the Prime Minister for another term at least (until they decide they made a mistake re-employing him and overthrow him again) Is your glass always half empty. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 501335 | 2006-11-30 12:33:00 | A little off topic, but it bugs me every time I see this... $11.5B surplus is not an $11.5B cheque book. Sure, there is some actual "folding" money in there, but it's a far cry form $11.5B. And as for Labour using the money to spend in the lead-up to the election, hands up anyone who seriously believes that any other party in the same position wouldn't do the same. People seem shocked that Labour is acting in its own interests, to ensure it stays in power. Since when have politicans in recent times ever acted to put itself out of power? Sorry your friend Hellen signed a painting she never painted, rode in a car to see a game of football which she couldn't give a stuff about but didn't want to miss a photo oppertunity and that car did well above the speed limit yet she proffesses complete ignorance as to the speed, spent nearly half a million on electioneering illegaly and an advertising billboard promotion just before the election. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 501336 | 2006-11-30 12:42:00 | Not really,had no time for think big Muldoon for a start. I will be surprised if there is anything in that book,time will tell. Brash was good, in that he wasn't you typical politician and what he did wrong the brethren crowd,I don't know. I certainly lean to- wards being responsible for ones action,which is what right wing is all about. Actually Bill Birch was the think big man not piggy. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 501337 | 2006-11-30 12:45:00 | Nicky Haggars book is being discussed on national Radio right now and is said to show an unholy alliance between the Nats and the Exclusive Brethren. Nicky Haggars is unholy. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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