Asked what her legacy would be, Caralee McLiesh replied, “Any leader wants to leave things better than when they came.” On that Key Performance Indicator, her tenure at the Treasury was a failure.
Give us a trillion dollars, says UN’s Guterres.
The Biden administration seems to be going out of its way to make Uncle Sam a laughing stock… which ultimately turns other nations away from the dollar.
The desire of West Australians to separate from the Federation was not fulfilled as the British Imperial Parliament refused to act, claiming that such an action could only be taken with the consent of the Commonwealth Parliament of Australia.
The numbers cannot be encouraged to keep growing. That will only ramp-up inter-generational dependency and further deplete potential productivity.
That is what the new international emergency looks like in actual data. Whichever way you count it, it is not going to become much more significant. It is not a global emergency, by any sane, rational, public health-based definition.
Except with a difference: Hipkins wants NZ to fail. For talking NZ down and wanting us to fail, Hipkins should get out of politics.
The projected cost blowout of $775m to $3.2b for two interisland ferries.
KFC and Maccas are becoming luxuries for cash-strapped families.
If a leading intellectual can’t explain why and how the policies he espouses address the challenges a country has faced in the past, it’s very difficult to take seriously what he and his later adherents may have to say.
Radio NZ is talking malicious garbage trying to paint it as a money-wasting hypocrisy.
The National-led Government is taking positive steps to reduce the cost of governance on New Zealanders at multiple levels.
People with competency need to stand. This is my request to those that read this: the nation needs you to front up. If you are unable to stand as a candidate, get behind competent people who will. They need support.
If both trends continue, New Zealand could face a shrinking, ageing population, with profound and catastrophic implications for the nation’s social and economic health.
What the people want is not what (or who) the people are getting.
