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The real cost of PPP’s revealed
A report in the Financial Times, that hotbed of socialism, says that PFI's as PPP's are known in Britain cost an extra 20 billion pounds in "extra borrowing costs" over the 53 billion pounds of the projects' actual cost. Not only that, 4 billion pounds…
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Turia knows the Maori Party is toast
The Mana Party exists because the Maori Party leadership comprehensively failed to represent the interests of its support base. The disconnect between the leadership and ordinary Maori is brutally highlighted in a weekend piece by Bevan Hurley: Their constituents are struggling but Maori leaders are…
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Future focus fizzer
Part of National's Future Focus is forcing everyone who's been on the dole for over a year to reapply. Apparently, 7,400 went off the dole as a result. I'm all for clamping down on real abuse. But I note none of these 7,400 have been…
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London riots
The focus of international attention has been on the markets and the wobbles in the financial system after America's credit downgrade. But there's another big story going on - the London riots. Last night (our time) The Guardian was reporting: London riots spread south of…
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Don’t sell into a down market
Before the government launched its asset sales policy, the Treasury told it that "significant participation by foreign investors" would be "essential" to provide "pricing tension". In other words, if they can't sell to foreigners at a high price, they wouldn't get the revenue they want.…
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Open mike 09/08/2011
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FFS
I don't know what's worse. Watching Trevor Mallard engage in amateur clap-trap like this or the fact the Labour caucus has decided a man with judgement this poor should run their campaign. When I heard Trevor had decided to bike-race National's muckslinger in an election…
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Wealth creators or life-blood suckers?
Study proves that our 'wealth creators' are actually bad managers. We have the natural resources. Got the skilled workforce. We're held back by the capitalist elite. Not interested in capital investment and paying better wages. They're just rentiers out to extract quick profits: a formula…
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Anti-imperialism not racist
National's David Carter says that you're a racist for not wanting to sell our assets to foreigners, particularly Chinese state-owned companies. It's not racism. It's about our sovereignty. We are never going to be able to choose our way in the world if we sell…
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Myth busting – reducing agricultural emissions
Here was Agriculture Minister David Carter on Q+A yesterday on whether National would bring agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme: CARTER We’ve signalled that we’re doing it in 2015. We’ve signalled we’ll do a review prior to that to make sure that there are feasible…
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Talk is cheap
John Key likes to tell people what they want to hear. He's less good at keeping his word afterwards. This story appeared in The Press on Saturday: PM sidesteps quake promise Prime Minister John Key is refusing to reveal what assurances he gave grieving families…
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Open mike 08/08/2011
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