You know they aren’t going to do shit. They are just going to wait until one of the ships stops working and then give one of their funders a huge contract to provide the replacement until it gets fixed which will of course never happen.

I know your reflex is to spew hatred towards labour and blame them for everything but the problem is really with you and people like you.

The public is the blame for their opinions and actions. The fact is that the public actually supports and enjoys everything National is doing. They want to hurt the poor, they want to hurt the Maori, they want to hurt immigrants, they want privatised healthcare and education system.

The country is going to shit because the decent people have left the country. What remains are the dregs.

Disgusting habit. Stop pushing this nonsense on us.

Just to follow up with you.

So far the counterfeit pants have been holding up great. My genuine addidas pants have all suffered from pilling but this one hasn’t yet. Let’s see what happens in another month.

Google “starve the beast” strategy.

Isn’t you and I driving also important to the country’s economic activity? I drive to work, I drive to the stores. I drive to the gym and recreational activities. That’s all economic activity.

As I said I was surprised that the counterfeit was actually better than the original in many ways. It kind of sucks that we don’t have access to these goods readily in NZ. Why should I go buy a blank ugly pair of sweatpants from Kmart when I can buy a much. better looking one of same or similar quality one from another vendor?

I do actually like the branding which is why I bought the counterfeit pants. I think they look nicer than the run of the mill sweatpants.

Oddly enough adidas changed the styling on their pants this year and I like the new designs less than the old ones so this makes the counterfeit ones even more desirable.

Who is the “we” you are talking about?

The point is that the word recession has a meaning, the meaning is accepted worldwide, and we are in one. I would also dispute that we are not experiencing the bad effects. The polls seem to indicate the public is feeling quite a bit of pain.

What’s the difference between a technical recession or an actual recession. Words are supposed to have meanings and recession is a well defined term with globally accepted measurement metrics.

If we are technically in a recession it means we are in a recession.

The article says “will be unemployed” meaning they are going to get fired or laid off or whatever the term they are using these days.

Sounds like they expect it to peak at about 4.8% if my maths is right? Historically, that’s still pretty low.

I don’t know. Usually mass layoffs have carry over to the rest of the economy. All the businesses serving those government employees are probably also going to downsize somewhat. Some may even go out of business who knows.

I get lost with the new benefits. Are the 187k people on Jobseeker not all considered “unemployed”?

Most likely not everybody who is unemployed is getting a benefit so the number unemployed should be higher than those seeking jobseeker benefits.

They aren’t thinking about other people’s toilet habits, they are thinking about other people’s genitals.

Every language you learn shapes the way you think.

Please include the word corruption in the headlines when posting stories like this. I know the press refuses to point out the blatant corruption but we should not be limiting ourselves like they do.

Let’s use the right word for this.

Corruption.

As I said this is carrying Identity politics culture war from the USA to here. NACT are doing this because they are ordered to do it by the political groups in the USA (the oligarchs basically). In this case Winston is the codpiece for the legislation. Next time it will be Seymour. They are just doing what they are told, obeying the people who pay them.

From the article

The organisation was not given a specific savings target from the government, but was asked to “deliver material savings”, so decided to cut operational costs by 6.5 percent over the next financial year.

So this is a demand from the government.

The number of people unemployed is not as important as the number of people who are not in a union. The people being canned from government positions will be replaced with contractors who will cost more but will not be in a union.

Nobody is thinking the government wants to commit mass murder of Maori like Israel is doing in Gaza. What people are saying is that the government wants to erase the Maori culture and language. This is of course a huge task and they won’t be able to do it in one shot or even one term so they are doing everything they can this term and if they are given additional terms they can continue that work.