By: Collin Blackman

Collin Blackman — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:11:14 +0000

“the Government is cutting funding for pastoral science and greenhouse gas research” – good plan re greenhouse gas. In fact lets get off that Bandwagon completely – yes, man contributes carbon to the environment, and yes, we have a little recent warming depending on who you listen to, but waste money on study of methane in the current economic climate – Now that is “farting against thunder”

By: Geoff Harman

Geoff Harman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:58:39 +0000

Good old NZ – for years now we have stumbled along and now seem to be falling by the way.
Once a leader on the world stage, we climbed the ladder and now we are taking the slide on the down trip.
Telecom, a company that in the past was big on talk, big on high payouts – to shareholders and executives – now it is facing a hard road. With vision and more investment in infrastruture over the last ten years instead of the focus on short term numbers Telecom could well be at the top of the heap.
Past management lacked vision or if they had it sold out for short term gains.
Central and local government are no different.
There are some hard dicisons to make and no one in central government seems willing to make them.
Living in hope, deluded.
While China with its massive stimulus program and America with the Dow making impressive gains, the talk is that we here, in good old NZ will be ok.
Ah but now we have the NZ dollar on the rise against major currencies, more like the US and Brittish currencies are sinking.
Why? – because things are not good in those parts.
Ah, again – we are different we grow food, it will all be ok, or not so bad.
The NZ dollar was always going to rise, by how much who knows, thats what happens when other countries print money.
But we will be ok – good Tui advert.
So the dollar stays up, even continues to rise, interest rates will rise – so what happens?
Not hard to work out.
The time is now, in fact it is well past for some major changes, but no one down there in the big honey pot is willing to make them, drones.
There should be a claw back or some penalty, and rewards, for parliamentarians for past performance – accountability, I can smell Tui again.
Maybe some politician will step up to the plate of their own accord because one way or another the situation will only deteriorate to a point where drastic measures are forced, all because leadership and vision were found wanting.
We have some 121 in the hive, I really do not mind who or how many step up and out, but for goodness sake forget about political survival, you will be remembered and perhapes even revered for what was done, not how long you were there.

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