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This entry was posted on Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 7:08 pm and is filed under parliament, security. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
So relaxed. Great to see. I guess if, as the NBR reports, he earns $100,000 a week, every week, after tax, on his blind trust, you can afford to be so relaxed about things. Getting $100,000 a week richer without even getting out of bed, would tend to make anyone a wee bit relaxed, and maybe even a wee bit out of touch. I guess ‘life style choices’ can do that to someone.
not used to a PM with a sense of humour are we?
Forget what he thinks about the DPS, did you hear what he says about the civil service, the people who help him do his job?
“Those muppets in the background.”
Heaven forbid we have a PM with a natural sense of humour. Chris – I think you have a serious case of Key Derrangement Syndrome. Not sure if you will like the cure (if there is one)
Chris – Serious question – Do Labour have any serious issues to debate – or are you absessed by the price of painting a house on rotation (like Labour did), the extra cost of DPS (like Clark had), helicoptor rides (like Clark had)
You guys are just chasing shadows and in the process looking petty, and pathetic. Why are you punishing yourselves so much?
@ Monty, I agree with you that the ‘politics of greed’ have served his sense of humour very well indeed. But I’m not sure about his sense of entitlement, the helicopters and entourage that you mention, though.
Its like Cameron Slater said to Bomber on TV last week, for the election run up Don Brash will just ask why the govt borrows $300m per week, and Labour will have no answer except to borrow even more- Labour are screwed and this is their last desperate, sad, gasp.
Monty – happy to debate the bigger issues with National any time, any place. Unlike the govt we’ve actually proposed changes to address cost of living issues (GST off fresh fruit and vege, cheaper early childhood education, etc), raise incomes (minimum wage increases, tax-free threshold, etc) and get the economy moving again (monetary policy changes etc).
But I’m not going to let them get away with hypocrisy. I know paid-up Nact supporters such as yourself only like it when the microscope is pointed in Labour’s direction, but you’re just gonna have to get used to Key and co being held to account.
@Chris – from what you have just mentioned
GST off fruit and vege $250,000,000
ECE – $400,000,000
Tax free threshold – $1,300,000
Increase minimum wage to $15 per hour 8,000 jobs lost.
That’s about $2 billion dollars worth of extra expenditure and 8,000 less jobs. Where will that the money come from?
From other things Goff has said -
Not taking power dividends – $700,000,000
Parental leave $50,000,000
R and D credits $300,000,000
Restore contributions to NZ super $2,000,000,000
Bringing that $2,000,000,000 plus this $3,000,000,000 of extra expenditure to a total of $5,000,000,000 extra spending.
Those are the issues that really matter, that Labour have put up an unfunded five billion dollars worth of expenditure.
@Monty, but clearly it’s more important to spend hours researching the security arrangements of the PM while he’s with his family…. rather than billions of dollars worth of unfunded election promises…. >_> *cough*
The prime minister may have a sense of humor but it is of an extremely low level of intellect , sounds like the childish sort of things my young grandchildren say. he is certainly not enlightening and fails to amuse me his glibness is not funny he is supposed to be taking the plight of his population seriously not answering with less than witty one liners
I suspect Mr Key thought that being Primeminister would be as easy say gambling on money exchanges He seems to find it difficult to accept that real work needss to be done to protect the lives of the people of New Zealand. Because he knows not how or cares even less he resorts to glib trite shallow humor which does little for anyone. Anybody with a bad voice can make a fool of themselves on a radio station and it would cast us a lot less if it was not the prime minister doing it.
How it’s done.
Two professionals working Key like a bunny.
I found Key’s sense of humour here rather unsubtle and definately not funny. This just does not seem Statesman like, nor was he taking the criticism seriously. Laughing it off, if anything, which does not make for a true funny, nor is it fair to the taxpayer. Sometimes jokes are just not appropriate for the seriousness of the situation. Maybe, that’s too harsh?
@Tanya, Humor is subjective, you may find the iphone posts on blogs funny, others do not. In terms of statesman like, I like the fact we don’t have a pretentious PM, I like the fact we have a PM that doesn’t jet around in first class on taxpayer dollars, I like that we have a PM that people can relate to.
However the bigger issues is that the deficit is looking to be 10 billion dollars, if Labour were reelected based on what they have announced it would be at 15 billion dollars. The rating agencies would be all over us, interest rates would increase, and every household with a mortgage would be worse off by thousands a year.
The PM said he never knew anything about the BMW purchase, even though it is his portfolio. That being so it seems odd to read this
“He said he had overruled a $400,000 proposal in 2009 to upgrade Premier House, because it was for “nicer couches for me to sit on, a better table, and I didn’t think you could justify that, nor do I think you could justify that today”.
Mr Key said he personally intervened to lower the carpeting bill. “I told them not to replace [the carpet] upstairs where I live … it was replaced for the public areas downstairs. I don’t think that’s overly extravagant.”
It just seems inconsistent to me.
Oliver I that’s really quite funny when you read what you wrote again. It’s kind of like people who when asked to prove that God exists say “you prove he/she doesnt” as though that is actual evidence.
Now you seem to be saying that the 15% worse than forecast deficit is actually good news and evidence of good work by national because it would be much worse under Labour. Truly, VERY funny indeed.
Actually tracey, I was saying 400,000 is immaterial in the grand scheme of things $15,000,000,000 current deficit – sorry earlier post was understated.
I am saying the forecast blow out is bad news, and significant cuts are required across the board… rather than the extra 5 billion spend that Labour has announced…. (illustrated above)
I don’t get it. The PM does an informal radio piece and has a few laughs, and somehow that’s a problem?
That’s a shocking kiwi accent he’s got though. Someone get that man a Lion Red.
Yes and we saw what you really think about the DPS by this:
How much protection are the 4 DPS currently eating lunch in Copperfields providing?
about 10 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
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Chris Hipkins
Oliver I, I love how you use the deficit created in part by borrowing for tax cuts that would never stimulate the economy is now used as a reason to bash Labour over the head.
You and MOnty obviously never saw the Nat policy on kiwisaver during the last election, a policy which was clearly stated as taking account of the recession and hard financial times. Let me guess, the earthquake, is the reason for everything now…
EQC has paid out but then it also had pay in for years and years from people who never claimed. Reinsurance money is entering new zealand at DOUBLE the amount the government expected ($3b instead of $1.5b)…
This government has twiddled with employment and done the law and order thing, is building some roads and waiting tilt hey can sell assets. THAT’s the big plan. Asset sales NOT designed to pay down the deficit but invest in different capital items.
sadu, if trevor is to be lambasted for five minutes of website creation (and he has by National/act supporters), then why not the PM for wasting precious deficit time on playing on the radio? People can’t have it both ways.
I Like how Chris buggers off once the figures are out in plain sight. That’s the problem Labour, you cannot spend. There is no money to spend.
Anything you say that involves spending is going to get rubbished.