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@taniwharugby said in NZ Politics:
@Snowy I used to work where I saw the trains loaded with logs heading south every day...then you drive south and see trucks laden with logs drive North...
You're just trying to wind me up about building costs and the fact that we export our logs to be processed so that we have to import the finished framing (as well as trains and trucks).
You'll mention rates next...
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@Rembrandt said in NZ Politics:
Concerning.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10219613582983820&id=1043317266
Its ok to do that to him because he's far right [by far right I mean conservative christian].
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I wonder how different things would be if this guy was our pm or finance minister ?
https://www.politik.co.nz/2020/01/21/the-thinking-persons-minister/
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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
I wonder how different things would be if this guy was our pm or finance minister ?
https://www.politik.co.nz/2020/01/21/the-thinking-persons-minister/
Nah, not woke enough, no young baby to parade out, lacks droopy sad mouth
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@canefan said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
I wonder how different things would be if this guy was our pm or finance minister ?
https://www.politik.co.nz/2020/01/21/the-thinking-persons-minister/
Nah, not woke enough, no young baby to parade out, lacks droopy sad mouth
He’s got a complicated personal life which is probably one of the reasons he doesn’t want the top job . I think most people wouldn’t really care about it tbh
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Low unemployment leads to more people on benefits?
War is peace , freedom is slavery etc etc
“Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni has put the increase down to a softening in some sectors, like manufacturing, and low unemployment which made for a tight labour market.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12302873
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@jegga I heard the interview - apparently the issue is the vacancies are all for skilled workers.
Although I have no time for Sepuloni (always hovering at Cindy's shoulder have you noticed) I can see some justification in the argument.
I remember when I did economics being told that in a fluid market 5% was practically full employment because there are always people coming and going and there is also a hardcore of "unemployables".
Of course in the muttermutter years since I was at Uni the way we record unemployment has become much more prescriptive so 5% today would be a much higher figure in the 80's. Changing technology also means I guess the "unemployable" sector has expanded considerably.
Misleading headline - 15,000 increase doesn't really seem like soaring to me. Ignoring the low base it came off.
Still more ammo for National and the Labour can't deliver strategy.
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@dogmeat good points there , I think doing away with some of the previous requirements to get a benefit probably had an effect too .
Sepuloni is definitely one of the lesser lights within labour though . I know it’s not her fault that her mother went to jail for benefit fraud but with that in her background I don’t think she was the best choice to head that ministry . It’s like making Gerry Brownlee sports and recreation minister.
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How did this person get into NZ?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12303404
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