Comments on: Parker on English

By: Iain Parker

Iain Parker — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:13:12 +0000

Can I plead with those three members standing out from the crowd at the front to have a very good read of docs and watch of vids in link below. There is even some goodstuff in it from Shanes friends back at Harvard.
If you take the time to have a good look, you will realise the meaning of the quote;
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful”

You need not worry that anything we discuss on this site containing irrefutable evidence of the credit creation mechanism at the core of international banking and commerce, because the mainstream media and the National Party executive want as little light shone on the matter as possible. A task that Labour are making very easy for them at present.
http://publiccreditorbust.blog.com/2010/05/07/private-credit-v-public-credit-centuries-old-struggle/

By: Jeremy M Harris

Jeremy M Harris — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:32:35 +0000

I just rewatched the video, what an awesome speech, the best I’ve seen for a while, when he got going you could hear the hush come over the chamber and could feel some government MPs thinking, “oh, hope the press gallery doesn’t wake up”…

By: Jeremy M Harris

Jeremy M Harris — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:28:04 +0000

@Peter Cresswell, Kiwirail isn’t a black hole, it is just being forced to compete with an industry receiving massive government subsidisation, if you take out rail maintanance costs Kiwirail makes a profit, it would outcompete trucking if subsidies for both were removed…

Labour paid about double what they should have for Kiwirail but they did get the entire network for $1, when it has a Treasury book value of $11 billion…

Finally the problem with Greece has been that they are running a very socialist society (nothing wrong with that, if that’s your thing) where the national past time is avoiding taxes… Something had to give eventually, the writing was on the wall a year ago in a TIME magazine article (so not exactly a state secret)… If I lived there I’d be suggesting the best thing we as citizens could do would be to stop rioting and start paying…

By: Draco T Bastard

Draco T Bastard — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:37:12 +0000

It’s interesting because Lockwood Smith understood that what David Carter said was the truth. He won’t admit it but it was written all over his face.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:14:32 +0000

INteresting to hear the British Tories decrying Gordon Brown for overseeing the largest debt in the history of Britain( Iam thinking post WWII would be worse)> BUT how’s that for pointed presentation of “facts”> A world wide crisis, some say worse than the 1929 crash… and it’s Gordon Brown’s fault. I am not syaing Brown is good or bad just that the twisting is interesting.

Monty, serious question. Can you list the things you consider National has achieved to contribute to growth of the economy in the past 18 months?

By: Peter Cresswell

Peter Cresswell — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:55:57 +0000

“… high ROI productive enterprise…”

You mean, like Kiwi Rail?

You don’t see the contradiction in taking money of productive folk who are actually engaging in high ROI productive enterprise (and if they weren’t, they’d go out of business), to pour down black holes like that?

Or have you perhaps forgotten how to spell ‘Think Big’?

By: jennifer

jennifer — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:14:26 +0000

Did anyone notice the smarmy, derisory look on the face of that broken down old Tory in the chair at the end of the speech?

By: Loota

Loota — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:37:40 +0000

Balancing budgets is not a big priority if the difference is being put into the development of high ROI productive enterprise in the economy which will then go on to provide far larger sums of tax in the future – without having to raise taxes at all.

Addressing your last statement: Greece spent and spent and spent but did not put much of that spending into the development of an advanced economy able to generate for the country high levels of income. Had they done so, their ability to repay their international obligations would be better than it is today.

By: Peter Cresswell

Peter Cresswell — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:31:17 +0000

A government’s budget involves two things: taxing and spending. Which means balancing a budget could involve either raising taxes or cutting spending.

Tragically, the economic mis-management of both National and Labour encompasses the former, but never considers the latter–even now when the spending has to be bankrolled by borrowing.

I’d invite you to consider that, whatever the evasive parliamentary crowing of Mr Parker, the end-road of that kind of short-term thinking is Greece’s present predicament.

By: Spud

Spud — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:11:16 +0000

“Everyone clears off as soon as Question Time is over (that’s the showcase hour)” – He he he