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Post by fish on Nov 8, 2022 15:55:48 GMT 12
I don't see the benefit of the tram to the airport. All you need is a bus. My Mum came up over Labour weekend, almost put her on the bus from Sky City, gets to the AP in 30 min, $12 for seniors. Why spend $10 billion when all you need is to import some bus drivers? I'm surprised no-one is kicking up about Labours new ACC2.0 i.e. the income protection levy. Another 1.5% tax for something that no-one needs. Speaking of ACC, anyone noticed how the levies are going up a fair bit? Oh, and the Fair Pay agreement isn't about fair pay. It is about compulsory unionism. The Fair Pay name is spin only. Have a look at the details. On the minimum wage, the value of a wage is relative to your living costs. I'd happily take a pay cut if my living costs dropped by more. If a govt can successfully tackle living costs, increase GDP per capita, etc, then you don't need to mess with minimum wages. It is hard to understand the detail in the noise, but eggs now cost more because the woksters wanted to legally mandate cage free hens. That law was passed 3 years ago, but the requirements are only kicking in now. Same with pigs, sow crates etc. That is before you even mention compliance costs, resource consents etc. Rules are making our food cost more. That is all before starting on the latest rules, winter grazing consents, fart tax, SMA's. Ditch the rules and our living costs will drop. This has nothing to do with covid or Liz Truss or the US bond market. Just too many nice to have rules... bro. Trams slow down traffic. Julianne GENTER and her urban planning fucktard husband want rid of cars. Tram tracks are suicide for cyclists...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2022 16:00:14 GMT 12
Bonus... Bring them on then
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Post by Fogg on Nov 8, 2022 18:58:21 GMT 12
A train to the airport isn’t just about the $$$ business case for kiwis - it’s equally about the impression it sets to international visitors.
I remember the first time I landed in Auckland and was gob-snacked that it was pretty much the only airport I’d ever been to anywhere in the developed world without a fast train into the CBD.
The clunky bus or taxi ride into the city basically sets the tone for what the rest of NZ is going to be like…
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Post by fish on Nov 8, 2022 20:30:43 GMT 12
A train to the airport isn’t just about the $$$ business case for kiwis - it’s equally about the impression it sets to international visitors. I remember the first time I landed in Auckland and was gob-snacked that it was pretty much the only airport I’d ever been to anywhere in the developed world without a fast train into the CBD. The clunky bus or taxi ride into the city basically sets the tone for what the rest of NZ is going to be like… Melbourne doesn't have a train. Neither does Bangkok, Istanbul, Santiago and several other cities I've flown into. Does Sydney have a train? LAX? Don't think so. I never took it if there was, we just hired a Hummer and partook in America's cheap gasoline... Heathrow does, Schipol has the best by a long way. But then in those places (Europe) it is easier to travel by train than by plane in the first place. You can even take a train direct from Paddington to Gar de Nor (London - Paris). Remember it wasn't that long ago that we didn't even have a motorway between the airport and CBD. 5 years ago. July 2017 the Wateview Tunnel opened. All the taxi drivers used to say the Tourists thought they were getting ripped off when they would turn off the South Western into residential streets... Route 12 up Pah Rd, up a few rat-run back streets to cut onto Gillies Ave and pop out on the Southern at Newmarket. That was a good impression. Not. I couldn't give a rats arse what international visitors impression of the airport train is, especially if it ends up my kids are paying for it (the bill will be that big). Unless they are complete anoraks, they aren't coming here to ride trains. $10 billion plus is a lot of money to shell out for a few train spotters. Most of our international tourists arrive in mass tour groups with aircon coaches waiting to pick them up, along with a Mandarin speaking guide. Its just the great unwashed back-packers that need to make their own way to the CBD. Besides, as soon as they hit the state highways, they will be swallowed by pot-holes and any good impression will be blown. Now, in saying that, if there is an economic business case, then yes I would support it. But from having driven to the airport and back twice in the last two weeks, I'd say the major issues are freight movement and trucking. Time is money for trucking, and getting airfreight products to the planes quickly is key for some of our high value export products. A rail link may work, as others have pointed out, but light rail is just a tram. Unless they are going to be a fast train, I'd argue a tram trundling up Dominion Rd would be worse for first impressions.
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Post by eri on Nov 8, 2022 20:38:42 GMT 12
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2022 22:20:16 GMT 12
A train to the airport isn’t just about the $$$ business case for kiwis - it’s equally about the impression it sets to international visitors. I remember the first time I landed in Auckland and was gob-snacked that it was pretty much the only airport I’d ever been to anywhere in the developed world without a fast train into the CBD. The clunky bus or taxi ride into the city basically sets the tone for what the rest of NZ is going to be like… Melbourne doesn't have a train. Neither does Bangkok, Istanbul, Santiago and several other cities I've flown into. Does Sydney have a train? LAX? Don't think so. I never took it if there was, we just hired a Hummer and partook in America's cheap gasoline... Heathrow does, Schipol has the best by a long way. But then in those places (Europe) it is easier to travel by train than by plane in the first place. You can even take a train direct from Paddington to Gar de Nor (London - Paris). Remember it wasn't that long ago that we didn't even have a motorway between the airport and CBD. 5 years ago. July 2017 the Wateview Tunnel opened. All the taxi drivers used to say the Tourists thought they were getting ripped off when they would turn off the South Western into residential streets... Route 12 up Pah Rd, up a few rat-run back streets to cut onto Gillies Ave and pop out on the Southern at Newmarket. That was a good impression. Not. I couldn't give a rats arse what international visitors impression of the airport train is, especially if it ends up my kids are paying for it (the bill will be that big). Unless they are complete anoraks, they aren't coming here to ride trains. $10 billion plus is a lot of money to shell out for a few train spotters. Most of our international tourists arrive in mass tour groups with aircon coaches waiting to pick them up, along with a Mandarin speaking guide. Its just the great unwashed back-packers that need to make their own way to the CBD. Besides, as soon as they hit the state highways, they will be swallowed by pot-holes and any good impression will be blown. Now, in saying that, if there is an economic business case, then yes I would support it. But from having driven to the airport and back twice in the last two weeks, I'd say the major issues are freight movement and trucking. Time is money for trucking, and getting airfreight products to the planes quickly is key for some of our high value export products. A rail link may work, as others have pointed out, but light rail is just a tram. Unless they are going to be a fast train, I'd argue a tram trundling up Dominion Rd would be worse for first impressions. Sydney has a train and you get charged extra to use the station,was $5 back in 2003,trams up Domion rd,Hmm,remind me why got rid of them again? Can see the use of one along the waterfront,downtown to kohimarama.
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Post by ComfortZone on Nov 9, 2022 7:35:45 GMT 12
Cam Slater's suggested response for Luxon:
Christopher Luxon now has a brilliant opening, after Ardern’s description of him as inexperienced, to expose the abundant evidence that Ardern is a failure. He could use his boyish good looks, wit and charm to answer back anyone calling him inexperienced by saying:
‘Look, I might be inexperienced at politics, but I have plenty of experience at success and winning. Jacinda Ardern, however, couldn’t build a house in a room full of Lego, has laid more track with Neve’s Thomas the Tank Engine set than for Auckland’s light rail and couldn’t build a bridge to get over herself. If she and Grant Robertson had applied for the job of Koru Lounge managers while I was at Air New Zealand they wouldn’t have even had an interview because their vision of a Koru Lounge would have been a tent on the tarmac with a very expensive model of what a Koru Lounge would look like in three years, so that people sitting there on cold hard plastic seating, eating cold sausage rolls and drinking lukewarm tea, could gaze upon what could be. And worse still they’d be telling everyone that their membership would also be five times more expensive.’
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Post by ComfortZone on Nov 10, 2022 12:39:42 GMT 12
Michael Bassett on immigration and skills shortages whilst Stalinda and co have their heads up their... www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/michael-bassett-jacinda-struggles-in-dr-strangelove-s-worldone notable comment in response Why then are our shortages currently so dramatic? Regarding the health system: [1] Those skilled workers who were bullied out of the work force by mandates, have "battered wife syndrome" and now free of it, simply don't want to go back. [2] Those skilled workers who were bullied into taking the jab, and have injuries, or have seen the patient injuries, or see the neglect and needless suffering on a daily basis, are also looking to end their "unholy marriage" so they neither have to live with the guilt or go home each day with their stomach in knots. [3] Skilled workers overseas don't want to come here, any more than skilled workers here want to go to live in Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, or a communist country with a looting government. And sadly that is how many skilled professionals in other countries see us right now. [4] And as you well put it, there is no incentive for people to up-skill to increase their income when govt is enforcing higher wages, handouts, and a plethora of subsidies fir anything and everything. ...that none of them seems prepared to say publicly that there has to be a better way. [5] Because they don't know there is a better way. They don't know any other way, than what they are doing, because they do not live or understand the real world. They are all suffering from generational socialist intellectual inbreeding.
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Post by eri on Nov 11, 2022 6:40:56 GMT 12
Ordinarily, a government juggling excessive balls rationalises but not the Ardern Cabinet. Rather, her ministers are adding more balls. including Treaty co-governance in the local government review 2023 and embedding hate speech legislation. These are more political Death Stars hurtling towards the sunlight of election day and projects that epitomise how the Government squandered its political capital. Its priorities are no longer in sync with the public. In terms of economic reform measures to reduce inflation, it is running on empty.
The answers will not be found in the bureaucracy of the Thorndon triangle. That thicket is overdue for a major prune, in both senses of the word. Fighting inflation requires a major reset in the state sector; less working parties and more delivery.
Salami politics, a slice here or there, as evidenced by Jacinda’s bread and circus routine at the Labour conference, will not work. Whilst there are no quick fixes, people need to see a plan, starting with a sound base.
A recipe of reduced regulatory deadweight; rewards for risk; boosted labour access; and incentivised investment and exports is overdue. Bearing away from open-ended welfare and a proactive civil service culture tied to measurable results would be uplifting.www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shane-jones-labouring-on-with-salami-policies/7RBJT5MJNVFXZOCP34YGNEMCHY/
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Post by fish on Nov 11, 2022 11:12:13 GMT 12
Ordinarily, a government juggling excessive balls rationalises but not the Ardern Cabinet. Rather, her ministers are adding more balls. including Treaty co-governance in the local government review 2023 and embedding hate speech legislation. These are more political Death Stars hurtling towards the sunlight of election day and projects that epitomise how the Government squandered its political capital. Its priorities are no longer in sync with the public. In terms of economic reform measures to reduce inflation, it is running on empty.
The answers will not be found in the bureaucracy of the Thorndon triangle. That thicket is overdue for a major prune, in both senses of the word. Fighting inflation requires a major reset in the state sector; less working parties and more delivery.
Salami politics, a slice here or there, as evidenced by Jacinda’s bread and circus routine at the Labour conference, will not work. Whilst there are no quick fixes, people need to see a plan, starting with a sound base.
A recipe of reduced regulatory deadweight; rewards for risk; boosted labour access; and incentivised investment and exports is overdue. Bearing away from open-ended welfare and a proactive civil service culture tied to measurable results would be uplifting.www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shane-jones-labouring-on-with-salami-policies/7RBJT5MJNVFXZOCP34YGNEMCHY/ I actually wonder if they already know they are screwed, so they've decided to go nuclear, to ram as much shit through (legislation) as possible, and just not bother with the election. In terms of career prospects, the whole Maori caucus can keep themselves in good money as unelected Council representatives, Tribal authority CEO's or pigs troughs worth of 3 waters boards. Cindy will be off to the UN, and the others are too thick to work out what is going on. That is why Dr Sharma (Dux of Kings College) got out when he could. And Kris Farfoe. Quits as a Minister and goes straight into a Lobbyist Consultant role. Better money outside of govt, and less shit to deal with. Why wouldn't you? If they go nuclear, and ram loads of shit through in a hurry, there will be a number of little fish-hooks in the legislation no-one else will notice (accept the ex Ministers working as Lobbyists). AND, it will take the new govt (i.e. ACT) bloody ages to unravel it all, especially while they are trying to manage an economic collapse at the same time. Probably more than half of their shit wont get repealed in the first parliamentary term (3 yrs) and after that, everyone would have forgotten about it. AND, they will say "we lost the election because of the global economic downturn" not because we are a bunch of cunts.
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Post by armchairadmiral on Nov 11, 2022 11:19:40 GMT 12
If Sharma was dux at Kings what on earth was he doing associating with a bunch of dopey ideological drongo communist losers ? Guess being dux it doesn't necessarily follow your IQ is up there with ability to think for yourself. ? Interesting !
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Post by ComfortZone on Nov 11, 2022 12:12:33 GMT 12
Ordinarily, a government juggling excessive balls rationalises but not the Ardern Cabinet. Rather, her ministers are adding more balls. including Treaty co-governance in the local government review 2023 and embedding hate speech legislation. These are more political Death Stars hurtling towards the sunlight of election day and projects that epitomise how the Government squandered its political capital. Its priorities are no longer in sync with the public. In terms of economic reform measures to reduce inflation, it is running on empty.
The answers will not be found in the bureaucracy of the Thorndon triangle. That thicket is overdue for a major prune, in both senses of the word. Fighting inflation requires a major reset in the state sector; less working parties and more delivery.
Salami politics, a slice here or there, as evidenced by Jacinda’s bread and circus routine at the Labour conference, will not work. Whilst there are no quick fixes, people need to see a plan, starting with a sound base.
A recipe of reduced regulatory deadweight; rewards for risk; boosted labour access; and incentivised investment and exports is overdue. Bearing away from open-ended welfare and a proactive civil service culture tied to measurable results would be uplifting.www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shane-jones-labouring-on-with-salami-policies/7RBJT5MJNVFXZOCP34YGNEMCHY/ I actually wonder if they already know they are screwed, so they've decided to go nuclear, to ram as much shit through (legislation) as possible, and just not bother with the election. In terms of career prospects, the whole Maori caucus can keep themselves in good money as unelected Council representatives, Tribal authority CEO's or pigs troughs worth of 3 waters boards. Cindy will be off to the UN, and the others are too thick to work out what is going on. That is why Dr Sharma (Dux of Kings College) got out when he could. And Kris Farfoe. Quits as a Minister and goes straight into a Lobbyist Consultant role. Better money outside of govt, and less shit to deal with. Why wouldn't you? If they go nuclear, and ram loads of shit through in a hurry, there will be a number of little fish-hooks in the legislation no-one else will notice (accept the ex Ministers working as Lobbyists). AND, it will take the new govt (i.e. ACT) bloody ages to unravel it all, especially while they are trying to manage an economic collapse at the same time. Probably more than half of their shit wont get repealed in the first parliamentary term (3 yrs) and after that, everyone would have forgotten about it. AND, they will say "we lost the election because of the global economic downturn" not because we are a bunch of cunts. their internal polling will be telling them how far down the toilet they are, otherwise they would have leaked it. I agree they are going nuclear with all the bs legislation, have the (correct) view that they will never have this opportunity again
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Post by sloopjohnb on Nov 11, 2022 12:21:24 GMT 12
And repealing the bs will be called racist.
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Post by fish on Nov 11, 2022 12:24:46 GMT 12
If Sharma was dux at Kings what on earth was he doing associating with a bunch of dopey ideological drongo communist losers ? Guess being dux it doesn't necessarily follow your IQ is up there with ability to think for yourself. ? Interesting ! Because, at the time Dr Sharma was elected, Labour were perceived (esp by GP's) to be doing a good job of the pandemic control. The whole dismantling of democracy didn't really start until they got an absolute majority. The mandates and forced vaccination didn't kick in until they got an absolute majority. Hell, even I voted for them at that point in time. Noting that Judith Collins was one of the alternatives (at that point in time)...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2022 11:09:46 GMT 12
I actually wonder if they already know they are screwed, so they've decided to go nuclear, to ram as much shit through (legislation) as possible, and just not bother with the election. In terms of career prospects, the whole Maori caucus can keep themselves in good money as unelected Council representatives, Tribal authority CEO's or pigs troughs worth of 3 waters boards. Cindy will be off to the UN, and the others are too thick to work out what is going on. That is why Dr Sharma (Dux of Kings College) got out when he could. And Kris Farfoe. Quits as a Minister and goes straight into a Lobbyist Consultant role. Better money outside of govt, and less shit to deal with. Why wouldn't you? If they go nuclear, and ram loads of shit through in a hurry, there will be a number of little fish-hooks in the legislation no-one else will notice (accept the ex Ministers working as Lobbyists). AND, it will take the new govt (i.e. ACT) bloody ages to unravel it all, especially while they are trying to manage an economic collapse at the same time. Probably more than half of their shit wont get repealed in the first parliamentary term (3 yrs) and after that, everyone would have forgotten about it. AND, they will say "we lost the election because of the global economic downturn" not because we are a bunch of cunts. their internal polling will be telling them how far down the toilet they are, otherwise they would have leaked it. I agree they are going nuclear with all the bs legislation, have the (correct) view that they will never have this opportunity again Stalinda horse is a reflection on 50% if kiwis..... ! Let's undo this!
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