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Ironically this is the exact reason why we need to cut spending, so we will have a future.
How about we remove the ability of business to claim back GST.
Is this going to be any more than a NIMBY like style of:
“I agree that we need to restrain spending because of tough economic times, but not in *our* department…” ?
It should read if we want a future cut the the national government !
Looks like a slogan searching for a cause, to me.
Will the gaggle be supporting the self interested?
outsmarting youself again darryn? that’s a freudian slip if ever i saw one..
if the millions of people who are going to be kneecapped by this govts disloyalty to it’s responsibilty to provide duty of care for it’s people decide to make waves, then fair enough.
or is the type of “self interest” that includes their own children’s welfare, not as worthy as the “self interest” that dictates monetary gains for the few?
i really need to know whether my concern for the social devastation caused by unfettered profit taking qualifies me as “self interested”. if so, then i’d better run along and join up with the brash hatchet gang while there’s still time.
Are they really cutting funding to Womans Refuge?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10721930
I think that is one of the most dangerous moves so far.
I’m sure that if the working poor and beneficiaries alike knew how much the average public servant in Wellington got paid then they would be shocked.
When Labour were last in power they were paying over half of SPARC (271 employees) over $100,000 per year.
$100,000 a year to tell kids how not to be fat and sedentary. What a joke.
This rally looks desperate.
Impressive sign Trev
I’m sure that if the working poor and beneficiaries alike knew how much the average public servant in Wellington got paid then they would be shocked.
The median wage, according to The State Services Commission’s capability survey 2010 is $54,981, the average is $63,655.
Not a great deal for people with years of experience is it?
I guess you are right though, they would be shocked they are paid so little.
Trev, we are running $15b deficits. Living beyond our means as a nation. We as a nation need to bring our spending under control. Unions may not like the solution, so therefore what is your plan to bring our spending under control. Where is Labour /unionists plan to balance the book?
Or has Labour got no plan, no idea, and no vision for reducing the massive surplus which are the legacy of Cullen.
@mr man
Depends on what type of job you are employed to do as a public servant. If you are working in a call centre or doing data entry/customer service, you do not get paid that much. Not much at all, unless this has changed, which I don’t think it has. There are lots of people working in govt that fall in this group.
‘Impressive sign Trev’ ???????
Yep another example perpetuated by the party of Slogans and Sound Bites
@Monty As i have said before, Key could have ditched all those things that you on the right hate, but he hasnt. They are not a legacy of cullen beacuse cullen didnt have a 15Billion dollar deficet on his watch, Bliniglish has the deficet on his watch and what has he done about it?
If things are realy that bad then we must immediately ditch paid parental leave, get rid of the 4th week holiday, ditch working for familys, get totally rid of the 20 hours free for over 3yr olds, get rid of the cullen fund, get rid of the governemnts kiwi saver, sell kiwi bank, sell our 50% share of air nz.
stop bleating on about cullen like hes still has input, labour lost the election 3 years ago, this mess we are in is all Nationals doing. they have the power to change things, they have the overwhelming support according to the polls,
luckily for NZ, National dont have a plan
They do have a plan waterboy, it’s called selling our labour off like we’re bleepin mexicans to any corps who will have us!
That’s their bleepin plan!
@bbfloyd – so you one of the gaggle or the self interested unionist? Perhaps both?? One of the gaggle – no problem, its your right and choice. One of the self interested unionists – look in the mirror for the root cause of the problem.
PS you spell my name Darren. Copying is hard but I guess you could blame the low standards in the education system – not that we would ever want to measure them! God forbid we actually turned out students prepared for the world with meaningful qualifications taught by teachers who were held accountable.
Do you have any idea how GST works, W/boy?
Yes George I do, just looking for a bite, Business has done pretty well of late with lowering of corp tax, its the common person that is really suffering
bbfloyd – I suspect like many here you don’t quite understand the concept of self-interest. Like Michael Wood who in his previous column seems befuddled by a false dichotomy between self-interest and virtue. It merely means whatever is according to one’s own subjective interests. It doesn’t necessarily imply greed or selfishness. What is in one’s self-interest could well include the welfare of one’s child. To quote Milton Friedman “every individual serves his own private interest . . . . The great Saints of history have served their ‘private interest’ just as the most money grubbing miser has served his interest. The private interest is whatever it is that drives an individual.” It is important to understand what is meant by self-interest so those of us who advocate a free society based on the emergent order of a free market and free people and those like Social Democrats who advocate the imposed ‘order’ of top-down mass coercion and the subjugation of the individual are not talking past one another.