Monthly Archives: September 2017
Short-term gain for long-term pain: my final pre-election thoughts
This has been one hell of a roller-coaster of an election season! I’m not sure I’ve ever felt such heady highs or at other times been plunged so low. For what it’s worth, these are my final thoughts (as posted in Kapiti Independent News):
I couldn’t watch last night’s leader’s debate. As the clock rolled around towards seven p.m. I started to feel sick with nerves, knowing I would have to sit through Mike Hosking cynically manipulating the discussion in National’s favour and Bill English perpetrating lies. From what I’ve read and heard since then, that’s exactly how it panned out.
With the most recent poll shifting the balance back towards National, I’m left wondering what has happened to the people of this country? It used to be we were known for generosity and a desire to see people treated with fairness and dignity (albeit not Maori, who are…
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Who’s challenging the beehive gravy train?
From William McGregor
Many people are good at what they do, and they earn a very lucrative salary doing it ….
The more they have, the quicker (& higher) they rise up the ladder of success; and good on them – in many cases they deserve it.
BUT – this is where it becomes grossly unfair.
Whether skippering Team N.Z. in a boat race, or earning a gold medal (or two at the Olympics) it’s the PEOPLE OF N.Z. who pay to fund these people on the road to their success.
A 17 year old golfer applied for quarter of a million bucks to pay for her coach’s fees…. she went on to win SEVEN FIGURES in prize money/bonus’s – I never heard her say “Oh, by the way, here’s that money I asked the people of N.Z. for, to start my life-style kick-start off – just thought I’d pay…
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Does the Government own shares in Fletchers? #eqnz #chch
There’s an email doing the rounds about the government, Fletchers, the Grand Chancellor demolition. It basically alleges corruption. Today CERA sent out a response – I’ve asked if they are happy with me reproducing it here and they are. I’ve printed their response in full, below. The very short version is (my words now) – the email doing the rounds is a load of rubbish.
If you have any queries about it, sing out and I will send you the contact at CERA who has the ability to comment on their behalf.
Cheers!
Sue
CERA SAYS:
“You may in recent days have received a malicious email which makes a number of baseless assertions about the relationship between the government, the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA), and Fletcher Building.
One of the assertions is that the government is the largest shareholder in Fletcher Building, and therefore stands to benefit from any…
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