The Creative NZ donation for promoting unemployment
David Farrar grumps about Creative NZ giving Tao Wells $3500.
Everybody has been an art critic this week with well known philistine and book burner Roger Douglas attacking Wellington Artist Tao Wells for being paid $3500 by Creative NZ to market unemployment as a viable lifestyle as an installment art project. Everybody’s favourite ACT Party Zombie spat, ‘why even have Creative NZ, Roger hungry for brains. Brains”. That was a direct quote.
Speaking on behalf of the Minister for Social Development, Crusher Collins claimed Tao Wells should work harder on his CV and he wouldn’t be unemployed. Crusher had to make the statement instead of Paula Bennett because Paula is on an all expenses paid, 6 week trip to America where she will be getting updates to her CV for free. Tao Wells should forget about measly $3500 grants from Creative NZ, if he wants the real money he should pretend to be Minister for Social Development,
posted by Bomber @ 8:09 am
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7 Comments:
I think you totally missed the point of Farrar's post.
It's easy to see where terms like "nouveau riche" and "social climbing wanker" comes from. A sizeable proportion of the NACT party fit. I sometimes I wonder how some of them actually get along together. Maybe they don't with the only thing they have in common being an arrogant "born-to-rule" attitude.
In economics, inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and ..... High inflation can prompt employees to demand rapid wage increases, ...
To artificially depress the value of the currency (through the Fed's aim of printing money for stimulus packages or so-called "quantitative easing") would be 'counter-productive' as that would only succeed in driving inflation and interest rates higher.
Australian treasurer Swan recalled the 1970's when the australian government "fixed" the exchange rate as export prices (make US goods cheaper abroad for example) exceeded imports or savings exceeded spending creating a terms of trade boom.The result was headline inflation rose from around 5% to 17.6% in a little over two years and which could pull us out of recession much faster.A grand each should get the ball rolling nicely said the teachers or those with longer holidays than most...
"It's easy to see where terms like "nouveau riche" and "social climbing wanker" comes from."
Yes, the poor and the untalented so it's clearl where your hatred comes from
Can't be a playa without haters.
BTW we don't have a born-to-rule attitude rather a born-to-own-and-spend.
In economics, inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of
goods and ..... High inflation can prompt employees to demand rapid
wage increases, ...
To artificially depress the value of the currency (through the Fed's
aim of printing money for stimulus packages or so-called "quantitative
easing") would be 'counter-productive' as that would only succeed in
driving inflation and interest rates higher.
Australian treasurer Swan recalled the 1970's when the australian
government "fixed" the exchange rate as export prices (make US goods
cheaper abroad for example) exceeded imports or savings exceeded
spending creating a terms of trade boom.The result was headline
inflation rose from around 5% to 17.6% in a little over two years and
which could pull us out of recession much faster.A grand each should
get the ball rolling nicely said the teachers or those with longer
holidays than most...
LEAP INTO THE DARK/1984.
As New Zealanders now know only to well their country has been
transformed almost beyond recognition.This is not my life summed it up
nicely in a bland grey concrete jungle of glass and mirrors.A once
well protected economy before devaluation and the floating exchange
rates allowed speculators to make a run on the dollar.We had a car
industry, import licensing and most importantly tariffs to protect our
manufacturing base especially fashionable textiles made here.Price
controls, CER the list goes on.All this as we became a world model for
structural adjustment and said to be a basket case or polish shipyard
by the IMF and the World Bank, (and Auckland Central M.P with a big
house near the fire station in Parnell Richard Prebble, Save rail
etc.)
We were opened up like a can of worms to international forces for more
competition and efficiency in user pays health and education, once the
realm of the welfare state.
Student Union's were freed from compulsory membership.Instead, they
became subject to free market forces through fees.Unemployment
beckoned as assistance to students in the form of universal allowances
a key platform rejected at the last election by students with
alienation, anomie and a false consciousness.Student loans filled the
gap for some on a threadbare existence living on the bare
minimum.Students were targetted for course cost's loans with which
they paid rent and bought clothes and socialised on the campus bar
instead of buying expensive and often monotonous textbooks.
Student leaders pledged to bring an end to the drinking games more
often than not involving full-frontal nudity as the craccum editor
skulled a pint going head to head with filthy phil, the black english
president.Phil and his replacement Mark O'Brien ransacked the
clocktower overturning filing cabinets and generally making a mess.A
procession of new leaders emerged with colour coded campaigns and
usually with the first name of Kane.Student health got overwhelmed and
nobody got a finger up their arse with a latex glove of course because
the toilet paper they were using was making their asses
bleed.Student's liked to know these things before going back out on
the piss again.
"Maybe the reforming governments since 1984 believed they would take
the electorate with them.If so, they were wrong.They took a leap into
the dark..."
When the Government assumes responsibility for individuals decisions ,
an inevitable consequence is the reduction of freedom of speech and of
individuals to make up their own minds and to make their own
choices...In formulating social policy to improve welfare outcomes,
considerable attention has to be given to the reasonableness of this
presumption.The more doubt is attached to this proposition, the
stronger the case for untied assistance like whanua ora or for not
intervening at all for delivering untied assistance.
Not if you are an elderly pensioner over eighty I believe and a three
hundred pounds winter heating rebate all being scrapped by the tories
including a universal child benefit.But they have to "make savings"
and we've heard it all before like a broken needle fixed on trickle
down a rising tide floats all boats.Meanwhile assets get cherry-picked
for privatisation and the real redistribution of income upwards not
downwards.Ten to eleven billion sold under labour and half that after
the ones that share power in a left-right conspiracy to keep us all
dumb-downed (despite 3000 extra funding for places not specifically
targetted at locals first and foremost ahead of racial minority quotas
and foreign students).
Personally, I tend to disagree with all the talk of saving the public
broadcaster when that privilege has already well and truly been
usurped.The three new free to air channels my aerial receives are
prime, maori and triangle all good value to boot.The movie tonight was
particularly enjoyable with intermission included.Neopolitan and
lemonade sundaes in the fridge and freezer.
As with all addicts the radio only reinforces someone elses rumour or
innuendo to the nth degree.Laws and co repeat ad infinitum about fat
brown slugs and turds etc.Then the truckies stage a protest and drive
around in circles as the rumour had it that banksy was going to
address them at the town hall.Laws fell for that one.He never made
it.One lasting impression though was of a young maori boy standing in
front of the curtains as the trucks drove through the night making
their deliveries and staying tuned into the hosts.What of his future?
Well.
The move to a market model of social policy in N.Z is complete.The
phase of political liberalism has passed us by.Core public sector
assets including the sale of telecom for just over $4 Billion a record
at the time involved massive state assets sales of some $9 Billion and
a wholesale attack on benefits in 1991 by National.Finally, a phase of
perpetual restructuring has been established.
It will be the first time since the late 1980s that the two parties
will not be arguing from roughly the same bedrock of economic
"orthodoxy" inherited from the Rogernomics and later Ruth Richardson
eras.
It is not surprising to most informed commentators that the Treasury
had detailed plans in place once Mr.Muldoon had left the building
replaced by the young turks of labour.They had clearly formulated an
economic agenda for selling social policy down the river dating right
back to 1984.The set of reforms in the late eighties included health
and education and these essentials for the reform of social policy was
already part of their agenda.All cabinet committees became answerable
to treasury and their claims of middle class capture.Treasury's power
quadrupled with a budget which climbed more dramatically than any
others who might have resisted their central tenets or thesis for
change.From $32 million to $161 million in 1991, and in the absence of
any resistance from weaker departments they not only set the agenda
for reform but they were rarely questioned.
Just keep watching yer sky sport in the weekends and leave the real newsmakers like Derek Fox on Te Karere in subtitles to predict Labour can take all seven maori seats and put the maori party and their right wing supporters out to pasture.
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