Key vs Goff
Oh. My. God. John Key has got nothing more than vacant aspiration and naked greed.
No plan to get us out of where we are other than a bunch of knee jerk talkhate radio nonsense like bashing bennies and gutting our public services. I don’t know what concerned me most, the announcement of mining on conservation land or Key’s assertion that we will see ‘Proactive Policing’ with those new search and surveillance powers they want. That doesn't bode well for civil rights.
GST at 15% so the wealthiest can get a tax cut? WTF?
His manic aspiration for National Standards when John Hattie has burnt the proposal to the ground made him look delusional. National Standards will not actually raise the educational standards of our children because there are no resources available to teach these children, all that is funded is the measuring. This is absurd. League Tables will only benefit National’s friends in the private education sector.
It’s ugly watching Key praise it.
The moment that blew me away was when he started babbling, and I mean babbling about how optimistic he was about NZ. And then I clicked, he really believes it’s all okay. He’s a $50 million merchant banker with a holiday mansion in Hawaii, for him life is pretty fucking sweet, I don’t think he really gets how hard it is for a vast chunk of NZ, I think he really believes it’s all optimistic and positive. John lives in a wealthy little bubble world clothed in suits your geeky Dad wears to make his silver spooned vacancy seem less eerie and pathological.
Phil Goff on the other hand was on fire.
The injustice of the fact that these tax cuts will benefit those who already have so much while the rest of NZ pay 15% GST had Goff showing passion and anger and he looked much sharper with cost analysis after cost analysis of how utterly outrageous the tax cuts for the wealthy are. Goff pointed out that Key himself would earn $500 per week out of the tax cuts but a person on the average salary of $48,000 would only get 35 cents a week in the proposed tax cuts. Goff roared that the last tax cuts gave 30 percent to the top 3 percent. No New Zealand family under $40,000 got any tax cut at all.
Goff encapsulated the egalitarian anger many within a 7.3% unemployment environment feel watching the political party of the wealthy and the elite handing even more to themselves while public services that benefit us all founder. This was Goff at his finest, the National Party who had written him off were very quiet and nervous. Goff’s speech had a begrudgingly long and loud applause, he was impressive.
Russell Norman. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Who wrote his speech? He was much better than this in the Mt Albert by-election. Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Rodney is pushing climate denial and is raving about gates. No one is listening in the house. He’s raving about climate denial now. He looks like he’s foaming. Ranting now. Face is going red, now attacking Niwa. Climate denial at it’s most banal. I liked him better when he was dropping dancing partners on their heads.
Bernard Hickey savages Key
Leave the country now Gen X & Y
Today he did nothing. He did worse than nothing. He shut down the debate.
He decided not to challenge a generation of voters who are now rich because of the property boom and don't want to give it up.
He is cementing in place the biggest transfer of wealth between generations in New Zealand's history.
He is saying to a generation unlucky enough not to own property in 2002 that they can give up on the dream of family home ownership in the main cities unless they can pry the money out of their parents.
He is saying all those too poor to own a home now will never be able to own their own home.
He is accepting the poverty and the hopelessness that is often attached to the working poor in rental accommodation.
He is saying tough. My backers own property. We won. You lost. Eat that.
He is saying, I don't like the activity of investing in property to avoid paying taxes, but I'm not brave enough to challenge them or convince them what is in their best long term interests.
He has finally shown his colours. He is a mediocre leader without the vision or the ability to change New Zealand. He is a seat-warmer who is too scared to scare the masses.
posted by Bomber @ 7:05 am
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It brought a tear to my eye.
Anderton was quite sharp as well - very on point.
Goff was outstanding, if only he could bring that outside of parliament the polls may shift a bit.
A family on 40000 ,thanks to WFF, is probably effectively paying little or no tax already.
Key wants to give more money to these people who are not paying their fair share already.
I'm surprised you aren't applauding this part bomber. It looks like something you would approve of.
Its completely sad, and a turning point so early.
Imagine having a large sector of your country voting for you, believing in you, and then going out of your way to show you are a visionless empty prat
Bomber why do you always quote Bernard Hickey? You can't really want rid of WFF, dramatic cuts in how much you get from super annuation and a big increase in age for entitlement. A 25 cent flat tax and interest back on student loans not to mention all sorts of property taxes. Because that is the world Bernard wishes to live in
Who slipped Hickey the hash cookies?
Has he had some sort of epiphany?
Wow.
Given your opposition to a consumption led economy, Key has, in effect, made consumption more expensive. Arent you for this?
Anon above made the point that because of WFF many low/middle earners pay no tax. Thus the people who have carried the burden if you will get a break now (or, pay the same level of tax but do so normally without putting income through a trust or whatever).
Property - given that 2/3rds of NZers own property, you can't simply say Key is helping his mates.
Bomber why do you always quote Bernard Hickey?
Through the tortured logic of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
"Given your opposition to a consumption led economy, Key has, in effect, made consumption more expensive. Arent you for this?"
LOL Classic. Bomber's always whining about the consumerist culture.
Obviously he hasn't thought through his position which is not surprising.
Mind you nothing Key says is going to please Bomber and he clearly desperate if he thinks that a tired old figure from the 80s labour cabinet is 'on fire'.
Too right. Key has shown himself up badly with that speech, he finally reveals his true colours (tax the poor, not the rich) and complete lack of ambition.
I feel for those outside the typical National voter demographic who actually voted for Mr Key, thinking (wrongly) he would generate pro-active change that would benefit society and stimulate the economy.
It appears that Mr Key has missed a opportunity to actually do something that might be remembered as a legacy and is simply a dude that thought (after a 'successful' career) that running a country into the ground would be good for shits and giggles - oh and keeping his mates happy.
Make no mistake - I am not a winging lefty (as it's often rudely put on this site) but a business owner that is aspirational for my country - not asleep at the wheel (like Mr Key) surrounded by drunks in the back seat.
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