Your comment has all the perspicacity of the “road apples” I have to avoid on my jogs around my neigbourhood……

Which is to say that, if this is an example of the kind of thinking? the raiding partys(national to the unimaginative)supporters rely on, then we have every reason to be seriously afraid for the future ability to have a say in our own destiny…..

Why anyone in their right mind would be prepared to simply attack individuals who are perspicacious enough to be able to clearly point out the obvious weaknesses in the tory philosophies(if you could glorify them as such), using nothing more than petty personal insult, and deliberate misrepresentation, is quite beyond me….

But then, I’m handicapped with a knowledge of history, and a keen sense of the strengths of true social equity…

Why, oh why, can’t I just be another mindless ditto head!!?? Life would be so much easier if I had nothing but ignorance, and zenophobia to refer to as my yardstick…..

More to the point…. Does anyone with a brain really think that 7.3% is where the escalation of the unemployment figures will stop??

Every day, there are more redundancies, factories closing, businesses going broke…. I can see us getting closer to 10% by the middle of next year…

God help us if the slowdown in mining/infrastructure work means that some of the 200,000 plus kiwis in australia try to come back here to find work…(or failing that, at least get the dole)…. then 13-15% unemployment will start looking like another tory “success” story…

Time will tell how successful Johnnie Sparkles and his Merryman have been at driving the NZ Economy Forward.

Shearer at least has some integrity where as Key will say whatever he and his stooges think the majority of the public want to hear.

Like 92% opposed in preferred pm polls isn’t 100% credibility killing already.

If there is a leader-in-waiting, times running out.

After all the NZ Public is more interested in what John Key is doing socially rather than how the economy is going, I guess thats what happens when you are a media celebrity voted New Zealand’s most sexy man.

The Labour Party Leadership Crisis is just another Red Herring stirred up by the Tories,Right Wing Bloggers and the Press. If Labour change Shearer now they will lose all credibility with the NZ Public. John Key is advocating a change interesting to see whether Labour will follow his advice.

Giving into “we cannot afford super” (Code for we will leave our old people begging in the streets, like the USA) is indicative of a typical right wing meme. If they get away with that one, they will work their way through all State social spending.
http://kjt-kt.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/on-new-zealands-retirement-income.html
“Since the 70′s they have been constant in the meme that we cannot afford super. A meme that has been driven entirely by the self interest of those, who are too wealthy to need super and too mean to pay taxes, and a greedy finance industry.

Unfortunately, it is true, that if you repeat bullshit often enough, even those who should know better come to believe it.

We cannot afford super is code for, “we should leave our elderly to beg on the streets”. So that wealthy people can pay less tax and the finance industry can again lose our savings for us.

In fact the idea that State super is unaffordable is crap from the same people that cry TINA and reckon that all social insurance is unaffordable.

If they win with super, they will just start on other social wages/insurance”.