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| Thread ID: 139676 | 2015-06-10 04:45:00 | The fourth estate stuffs it up again. | WalOne (4202) | PC World Chat |
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| 1402371 | 2015-06-10 04:45:00 | A commentary worth reading ... (emphases mine) “Why have people started dying of cold houses now, when generations before survived them just fine? “The media are in a frenzy about people dying in “cold houses”. It is the fault of the government, the fault of poverty, but somehow never the fault of the occupants of the so-called “cold house”. “Yesterday Duncan Garner stood outside a state house and moaned about how cold it was, how heartless Housing New Zealand was and how terrible and it was the fault of everyone else that an obese man died in a cold house filled with his 6 children. Apparently it is the state’s fault he couldn’t afford heating. It was the state’s fault he had heart problems and obesity problems not to mention pneumonia. “Is the real problem a poverty of intellect, where people have forgotten or realistically neglected to learn basic living skills. Most every one I know knows that you have to ventilate a house. Get the air moving in order to prevent mould. Everyone I know hangs washing on the line or uses a properly ventilated drier to prevent warm moist air filling a house. “Are the media beating it up or is there a real problem with these houses that have previously had no problems at all. “In any case could Labour and the Greens who are banging on about this endlessly please explain how after decades of global warming we suddenly have “cold houses”. “It is actually a poverty of intellect and a poverty of basic living skills that a lifetime of welfarism has handed people. When the state takes care of your every need there is no need to learn for yourself. “Meanwhile the media beat this up, pimping the cold, the shivering, the poor and now the dead, to suit their ratings driven agenda.” Here's the full article from Whaleoil today: Killer-houses-the-medias-new-whipping-boy (www.whaleoil.co.nz) Time the media stopped inventing their "news" and started reporting on factual evidence. |
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| 1402372 | 2015-06-10 04:47:00 | A royal perspective on our housing problem www.thecivilian.co.nz |
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| 1402373 | 2015-06-10 07:09:00 | Time the media stopped inventing their "news" and started reporting on factual evidence. Wheres the "fun" in that ;) REAL actual news can sometimes be boring, heaven help if all they had to report on is The next door neighbor to JK has a over grown Garden :D | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1402374 | 2015-06-10 07:37:00 | A royal perspective on our housing problem www.thecivilian.co.nz :lol: Nice one, bogan. Thanks for introducing The Civilian - now bookmarked! |
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