Unemployment up to 6.8% - where are the Jobs Mr Key?
The Unemployment rate was supposed to drop to 6.5%, it went up to 6.8%.
Where are the jobs Mr Key?
We continue to see vast numbers of NZers with no job, we continue to see large numbers becoming 'invisible' to official jobless stats meaning our real unemployment rate could be far higher and we continue to see no plan whatsoever from National to address these unemployment issues other than selling assets and tax cuts for the rich.
The right wing apologists will be very quick however to point out that we don't know how lucky we are with 6.8% unemployment.
Have a look at the unemployment rate around the world and we are lucky. It's bumped up over 8.3% in America, it's in crippling double digits throughout Europe. We have been protected from the worst edges of the recession not because of John Key's policies, but because of our geography.
The economic micro climate created by China's vast buy up of raw materials has protected NZ. China is our second largest trading Partner, Australia is our largest and China is Australia's largest.
I know for that vast sea of NZers currently living in poverty, planning week to week finances that the idea that we are some how 'better off' seems like a slap in the face to their daily struggle with living it hard in NZ, but the reality is, this is just a taste of how bad the economic environment can degrade if China's economy get's buffeted by a collapsing Euro-Zone and an America falling into recession.
That's why a change of ideological direction is a must in 2014. We don't know how lucky we are, because the worst hasn't hit NZ yet and this Government have no answer to those concerns other than more failed free market dogma.
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posted by Bomber @ 11:00 am
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Couldn't agree with you more Bomber. When the shit hits the fan, we'll see how fantastic National's policies are. Key doesn't seem to grasp the perilous state of the NZ economy AT ALL. The Emperor With No Clothes springs to mind.
He has no clothes Nit?. He's still mincing around in a Rubby Whurl Cup Jewsie pretending to be a blokish meahan-o-people. STILL! the msm have never bothered to investigate the measure of this ideologically self-driven prick, and I doubt they ever will. Dunk and Gee-on profess to know the bloke, or to have the measure of the guy. I'm sure they think they do based on their being accomodated in a lifestyle they've been accustomed to. Shame about any sort of context, or historical analysis. What drives Jonky?> The sound of a S-s-sJon in the not too distant. [i.e. a "Sir John"] Watch what he does if and when things get really tough though - as for many it already is - though he'll not have noticed! He's a Neshnool Pardy Klich (cliche). Sir Keith, and probably even Rob Muldoon would be ROLLING IN THEIR GRAVES.
What fascinates me is how and why the likes of some of his colleagues (Chris Finlayson - FOR EXAMPLE) -tolerate the cnut, to the extent they make comments such that left wingers have not yet grown the sense to come aboard a Neshnool Pardy genda. I never imagined prior to that outburst that social climbing wanking was a Finlayson pass-time but obviously it is. But possibly he's just hoping to see the insides of a Lockwood Smith bedroom while wifey is away.
I wonder how the likes of "Kruss" is going to feel when the Jonky agenda is all complete (the neo-Nat/Phil Stein agenda - where the cost of everything and the value of nothing is known - consequences of which will be:
-No public service broadcasting of any sort (including RNz and RNZI, or even the "new way" where anyone or anything will provide PSB on an advertising-based "plEtform")
-Opera and ballet based on philanthropy and sponsorship with artists living on the breadline taking any chance to fuck off overseas just as soon as they can. ("Ladies & Gentlmin...Ekt II of tinoit's piff-or-mincis brort ya boi Moida 10 Mearga") ..... etc etc.
-A world renown orchestra systematically being dismantled with the best looking for every opportunity to fuck off overseas
-Artists of any and every discipline looking for overseas ventures
-Sportsmen and women (not just League players) coming to the realisation that things in NZild can only ever be a labour of love - so GO for the money while you can - fuk any committment to anything!
-The celebration of monopoly or duopoly. Supply-side corporate dictatorship (Small business and any small producer either facing take-over or anything that renders their ability to operate impossible)
-The rise of the philistine and the "nouveau riche"
-Tertiary Education institutions of all descriptions losing their reputations to the extent that NZ is becoming an expensive joke (as it already is in many parts of India)
-Dissatisfacttion of MOST of the likes Kruss wants to hob-knob with looking for an exit
The fucking list goes on.
If I could come back in say 3 decades given Jonky/English/Joyce strechy, I'd put money on
a clamour for NZild Inc. hoping for an Australian bailout and "statehood".
(Half the populationn will have fucked off over there in the interim anyway)
THe worst thing is that there is a Labour "alternative" under it's current regime that appears to be aspiring to all that!
Amongst them, there are a few (many youthfull such a Adherns and Hipkins) that have an attractive and viable alternative using intelligent and experienced others - sages even). There are Paganinis and Chardonnay Socialist so called experts (the likes of which you might encounter on that "luvly, NICE man, non-threatening, let-me-be-EVERY-person's friend, love-you-all-very-very-very-longtime Jim Mora thing on Natrad). Really really sensibe ain't it? (NOT).
(btw - as IF Natrad can be accused of Left-wing bias given Jum and sensibe Catholic Girl in the morning - the one that has "isss-yooos" but whose name eludes me atm).
There COULD be a viable alternative that might go along the lines of Green/sensiblr Labour left that has returned to iits roots.
Unfortunately though There are some Josie Paganini, William Shearer-I'm-desperate, and other egos that are MORE important to what an electorate wants or needs.
Thank God that 3 or 4 years in Northern India are a better proposition that what Labour is currently offering.
THe worst thing is that there is a Labour "alternative" under it's current regime that appears to be aspiring to all that!
Amongst them, there are a few (many youthfull such a Adherns and Hipkins) that have an attractive and viable alternative using intelligent and experienced others - sages even). There are Paganinis and Chardonnay Socialist so called experts (the likes of which you might encounter on that "luvly, NICE man, non-threatening, let-me-be-EVERY-person's friend, love-you-all-very-very-very-longtime Jim Mora thing on Natrad). Really really sensibe ain't it? (NOT).
(btw - as IF Natrad can be accused of Left-wing bias given Jum and sensibe Catholic Girl in the morning - the one that has "isss-yooos" but whose name eludes me atm).
There COULD be a viable alternative that might go along the lines of Green/sensiblr Labour left that has returned to iits roots.
Unfortunately though There are some Josie Paganini, William Shearer-I'm-desperate, and other egos that are MORE important to what an electorate wants or needs.
Thank God that 3 or 4 years in Northern India are a better proposition that what Labour is currently offering.
@ Nitrium . Noooooo ! You've given me an image of a naked jonky . Oh dear Jesus Christ ! Where's the Gin ?
But I think Puller Bent has all these ideas for the "genuine" beneficiary she wants to "wrap around" them. Apparently the genuine beneficiary shouldn't be concerned. National has everything planned out for you. Mums can clean the council bogs 3 days a week while their kids are in daycare - after catching 3 buses across town and using their wages for the fares, and those dirty bludging sickness bennies can stop painting the roof and trying to improve their own environment, and just realise that the government's handout is a priviledge - NOT a right - no matter how much tax you've paid in the past.
Puller is just such a regular gal, she's got a scheme for each and every bludging bennie after an in depth study by a cast of a thousand consultants who have unanimously come to the conclusion that the government is on track going forward, and the light is now shining at the end of the tunnel, new jobs are on the horizon and all will be well in the next quarter.
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