Don't hold your breath New Zealand!

Friend of ACT and ex MP Don Brash has been working hard on the The 2025 Taskforce report to drag NZ towards closing the pay gap with Australia. It is beginning to look quite juicy - the media have jumped immediately on the proposal that NZ adopts a flat tax.

This will no doubt get Labour and Green MPs into quite a state. How dare the Government start to watch its spending? What on earth would Labour politicians do if they didn't have a slush fund to bribe taxpayers with at election time? Why should top wage earners have to pay an equal amount of tax than everybody else?? I can imagine this will not go down too well at all with the left - after all, high taxes and we know best Government is the only way they can have power over the citizens - letting people make their own choices is the first step away from socialism and statism.

National too will be nervous from this report. Key has built up an image which doesn't stray too far from what Labour has done - and is immensely popular for doing it. Goff is on 5% popularity - so John doesn't really have to do anything.

Of course Brash is right, which is why he was never truely accepted by his Party. A crying shame considering he saved many of their political lives and built Nationals support base up again to help Key get to where he is. The little case of $800,000 overspending by Labour (of taxpayers money) also played a part in that.

What is unfair about making everybody pay a flat amount of tax? 20% of 1 Million is still more than 20% of $30,000. Any idiot can see that it removes the complexity of the system and will help fight tax avoidance. I don't think in my lifetime NZ will wake up to the sheer brilliance of flat tax - so expect us to languish behind more progressive countries like Czech Rep, Russia, Slovakia and Latvia, all who have citizens very grateful that they keep the proceeds of their hard work away from the politicians.

See:

Tax cuts proposed

Also see Sir Roger Douglas's take on cutting the gap. It's even better and pledges to cut Govt expenditure and the growth of Govt. After all, when they invented the concept of Govt there was no way they intended it to be like it is today.

Hide your Facebook - Creepy Charles is watching you

Over at Red Alert, Charles Chauvel is delighting in some internet sleuthing he thought would be newsworthy. Somebody in his circle of friends figured out how to screen dump the profile page of a good mate of mine.

Whats worse, Charles thinks it's relevant and worth posting about in order to make a point... about what? That you are a creepy internet curbcrawler?

Times like this it's good we can have profiles blocked on Facebook, but if you are already a friend of Creepy, then I suggest you defriend him or not say anything unless he puts it on his blog.

I hope Trev the Muss sorts him out....

**Update**

Charles passes it off as a random one off peeping, however silly me forgot that he did the same thing to Nat staffer Christopher Bishop during earth hour last year. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Read Creepy get piledriven here on the Parliamentary website too.

Google apologises... HYPOCRISY ALERT

What's the difference Google????












WTF is going on over at Google? For 8 years people have googlebombed President Bush on webpages and have created insulting photos of him. Did we hear apologies ringing from the Google Powers That Be (GPTB) whenever these images appeared when we searched for the former President? No.

So why now would Google apologise for an image of Michelle Obama that appears on their site? It's of the SAME animal that has been used by the Bush haters. The GPTA have remarked: Google placed a text ad above the image titled "Offensive Search Results" that states "Sometimes our search results can be offensive. We agree

I don't agree. You either have a consistant policy or you have none at all, free from political and personal bias.

Story here.

Jon is right

Jon Voight has ruffled a few feathers by suggesting the NZ health system is set up to fail. Quite right too if you think about it.

Voight, who has starred in dozens of movies including Midnight Cowboy, Catch 22 and Deliverance, took to the streets beneath Capitol Hill with thousands of other activists.

They were protesting President Barack Obama's plans to restructure the American healthcare system.

The 70-year-old Oscar-winner addressed the crowd shouting, "We would be no better off than the European countries and Canada and New Zealand who suffer greatly from a poor healthcare system. Their rationing system creates many deaths."

We have people dying on waiting lists due to ideological reasons and not commonsense. If there are doctors available and hospital beds free, people should not be blocked from accessing them - people should be rewarded and not restricted from accessing the best healthcare for themselves and their family. Labour are opposed to any form of private provision and the Nats don't seem to want to discuss this at all - and the people are stuck in the middle. What is wrong with NZ? We pay high taxes and healthcare isn't free - and yet elsewhere people either pay taxes and get free healthcare, or they pay insurance and get healthcare. NZs system doesn't make sense whatsoever. What a LOT of waste, and it all seems to be wasted on bureaucrats and politicians who really don't have a clue.

A system that allows only the well off to access the best healthcare doesn't seem very fair does it? So why do our main parties support it?

Story here.

ACTs health policy here.

You could not make this shit up!

I do not often bother reading the EMPU and Labour party funded Standard, I find the high level of censorship to be rather irritating.

However, yesterday I went and had a look as they were commenting about the Nat's new blog, I am now glad I did, one comment made me laugh out loud and helped improve what was otherwise a bloody shitty day.

http://www.thestandard.org.nz/what-i-did-on-my-holidays-by-insert-name-here/

One of the idiots even had the temerity to moan about 'his tax dollars' paying for the site.

That is bloody rich coming from the Standard, this is the same Standard that was part funded by the previous Labour government using tax payer dollars.

Christmas Comes early for Coleman

Pete Hodgson was made to look like the complete twat that he is yesterday by Dr Jonathan Coleman.

Read the transcript here

First up Gollum asks a reasonable question....

Why has immigration policy been changed so that the child of a person legally in New Zealand on a work permit under the essential skills policy will not be able to freely attend school if his or her parent or parents earn under $33,675?

Rather than flatten Hodgson early on Coleman gives a reasonable answer.

Hodgson then demands, nostrils flaring, eyes glaring, sweat dripping of the brow of this fine warrior for social democray's head, that Coleman answer who was lying, the media or the officials.

Coleman now with a sigh, and without the merest of smirks takes aim and mercifully attempts to put this aged standard for socialism to sleep....

The member might be interested to note that this change to policy was signed off by the last Labour Cabinet, of which he was a member. I quote the Cabinet minute from July 2008, which stated: “This Cabinet agrees that a minimum income threshold be introduced under the essential skills policy to ensure that temporary migrants can properly support their dependent children in New Zealand.” I ask the member, if he thought it was such a good idea then, why he thinks it is a bad idea now. Is he just too tired to really take notice any more?

Now all hell breaks loose, the treasury benches are in hysterics and poor old gollum vainly shrieks that the Labour party would never engage " in such child abuse"!!!! Despite just being given the evidence that they did.

Gollum thrashes around after the fatal blow with such vitriol aimed at his assassin that the Speaker deducts him a supplementary and there he is left, a vanquished ill informed aged corpse on the bonfire of the present day Parliamentary Labour Party.

28 % in the polls and your leader has just announced a return to "funny money" social credit monetary policy and this is how they perform in the house, bring on 2011. Bring it on.

My OIL BILLIONS wish list

Fucking roll out the red carpet New Zealand, we're sitting on over 60 billion dollars of black gold!! This is a time that naturally we should be very excited for New Zealand... and exactly the right time for the killjoys from the Green Party to piss all over the fire.

New Zealand is in debt, thanks to Labour and their Green buddies - and over the last decade, the lefties have shown us that they should never ever be allowed to get their thieving hands on it again. Not that National is exactly a shining light of financial shrewdness themselves, but I almost trust John Key with the money more than anybody in the Labour Party.

The Nats are spending like drunken sailors as it is at the moment, so my wish list for the money coming in isn't exactly something similar to what our politicians promise every three years - the types of grubby vote winning bribes with our money that the country can't afford.

Wish 1 - Eliminate Income Tax, fuck it - the entire country will celebrate.

Wish 2 - Cut Government down to the bare bones. Get rid of all ministries that are a net drain on society, ministry of maori/womens/pacific affairs and the Ministry of Economic Development are first on the chopping block.

Wish 3 - Cut the number of MPs down to 45...and make plans to review this for lower numbers every 3 years. We need people there who will NOT want to blow this money on pet schemes and self interests.

Wish 4 - Legislate that NO future Government will nationalise or increase spending levels.

Wish 5 - make sure our police and military have ALL the right equipment to perform their tasks anywhere - anytime.

Wish 6 - Put Sir Roger Douglas in charge.

Wish 7 - Those who cannot look after themselves and the disabled, poorly etc, to be given free private health insurance and gold plated care.

Wish 8 - Oil tax profits cannot be wasted on propping up state infrastucture that can be easily replicated in the private sector.

Wish 9 - Eliminate benefits for the work shy. If the lazy bastards want to sit at home on the dole they will have to work for it. If they want to be part of the no tax workers paradise then they will have to join the rest of us.

Wish 10 - Fire Sue Bradford into the sun. Put it on Pay Per View. :)

Story here.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss!!!!!!!!!!

What a game. It seemed scripted. Ryan Nelsen was right, the 12th man cliché could never be applied more accurately.

Now for the Group Stage.............please, please England and Australia!!!

Dear Santa

Dear Santa

I know it is a bit early to be sending you my Christmas present wish but I thought I would get in early.

This year I have decided to be generous with my wish, this year I have decided that instead of asking you for something for myself I want you to give a present to somebody else.

It is not easy deciding who should be the recipient of the present Santa, there are many people in this world who have desperate needs, I did think about asking you to give Philip Ure or Natasha Fuller a job, I even gave consideration to asking you to supply D4J with a years supply of Valium, however, that would only fix one small problem.

I figure that if I am going to give away my Christmas present then it should go to the person who can do the most good with their new gift, somebody who needs this gift and somebody who upon receiving the gift will be able to change the way millions of Kiwis live.

The gift I have decided upon will make all of the people in this nation a little bit richer, each and every tax payer would find that they have a few dollars a week more in their pay packet and every single person in New Zealand would be better off.

So Santa, this year I would really appreciate it if you could send Mr John Key a pair of testicles, only then will Mr Key be equipped to do what is really needed with our out of control social welfare system, only then will Mr Key be able to start slashing and burning his way through the thousands of bludgers who steal from their fellow Kiwis week after week.

Thanks for reading my letter Santa, I hope you can help.

Kind regards

Big Bruv.

Freedom

There has been a little talk on Kiwiblog about the fall of the wall. Pubic Address's Russell Brown, huffed and puffed all he could to diminish the role of Reagan in the events leading to the end of Soviet adventurism in Eastern and Central Europe. Russell playfully tried to revise history by stating trade unions amongst others had a bigger effect on the downfall of this dark period in history... WRONG. Russell has close friends who wept when the Soviet Union broke up, and Russ still advocates for a big state that restricts economic and personal freedoms. His buddies in the trade unions were closely aligned to the Soviet communist parties as well - so don't blame me for not believing his crocodile tears.

Read an interesting story on how Obama chose to avoid the celebrations in Berlin here.

Ivory Tower Hypocrisy From Multi Milionaire Carbon Guzzling Pop Star

Whining, borderline suicidal, petulant are all adjectives that can be rightly applied to Radioheads Thom Yorke. Now we can add supremely patronising.

Quite rightly (and surprisingly for a bunch of pinkos), the British government intends to build a shit load more nuclear power stations over the next ten years.

But good old Thom doesn't like this one bit.

"Under the confused assumption that we can carry on consuming power as we do now into the future,"

Yes we can Thommy boy. It's called progress, or development. It's the idea that fuelled such things as the cure for polio, the telephone or the internet.

All seemed impossible at some stage in human development and if we had given up as it was in the too hard basket we would be right back in the dark ages.

But here is the killer.

the British government is committing to build a new round of nuclear power stations for which we don't have the money," Yorke wrote.

When has any leftie raised ANY concern about the public financing of vital infrastructure....EVER.. This is the moment in any argument with a leftie that you know you have them beat.

The left seem to have this narcissistic denial with regards to nuclear power.
It was their beautiful rasion de'tere in the 60's, 70's and 80's and they cannot look away from that illusory golden era of activism.

Fact is we won, they lost. There was no yearly Chernobyl's and there was no global holocaust. The science and safety of power stations and the nuclear deterrent worked.

People like Yorke use smorgasbord science to justify their world view and try to maintain there ever dwindling credibility.

Nuclear science.......bad
Genetic modification science.........bad
Climate change science........some good , but anything contra to their deeply held beliefs is very, very evil.

If climate change is such an issue then everything should be on the table. On the face of it the safety record of nuclear power and its zero emissions make it a real alternative that should put it centre in the middle of the table. For a carbon guzzling pop star to dismiss because it offends his heritiage of CND and greenpeace activism exposes them for the hollow, hollow men they are.

Chavez - Following the script nicely!

As mentioned on my blog many many times. I'm hardly a fan of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Throughout the past few years he has managed to do everything to turn a free Venezuela into a hardline Socialist dictatorship. It would be safe to say he has followed the script nicely; using the oil wealth to buy votes and support, pushed through laws allowing him to run for President for an unlimited time; shut down private TV and newspaper networks, authorising crack downs on opponents, attacking his Capitalist enemies while cuddling up to his comrades (Castro etc), telling the population that he has been the target of assassination plots during election time, secretly funding organisations to hurt his enemies (FARC in Columbia), heavy rhetoric against regional powers who oppose his leadership - and accusing them of being American stooges (Columbia)... etc etc... not to mention the BILLIONS he has spent rearming his militia and upgrading his military with Russian weaponry.

It was all doomed from the start and yet he is not doing anything differently.

Now he is beginning to flex his muscles. His domestic support is waning and he needs to find a distraction... so he has told troops and citizens to prepare for war with Columbia. The reason? Washington wishes to have more access to fighting the war on drugs within Columbian borders and Chavez has lept on this as an attack on his authority in the region. Chavez already helps fund the FARC terrorists - and enjoys their support and endorsements. If the US attack and kill more of them, he will lose his influence in Columbia which has politically turned their backs on Chavez's socialist agenda.

As discontent grows over water rationing and power cuts - Chavez believes that war against Columbia will solve his problems and cement his legacy as the Socialist saviour of South America. Realistically it is going to lead to more long term suffering for both countries and political instability for Columbia. If the Chavez revolution cannot even provide water for the poorer classes who were manipulated into voting for him - then how do we expect him to do anything encouraging for his country?


See - Chavez rallies the troops

Now I know what being politically correct means.

Until today I had never been quite sure how one goes about being completely politically correct, obviously, one picks up little bits here and there given the way the cancer that is PC has infested our society, but, I had never really grasped it in its entirety.

Well today I finally found out what it means to be PC in New Zealand.

Being politically correct in New Zealand is far more simple than I ever thought it would be, being throughly politically correct in New Zealand is a easy as pie, all one has to do is forgive, make excuses for, or totally ignore everything that might cast Maori in a bad light.

Ignore the endless line of child killings, ignore the vast number of Maori in our prisons and ignore the shocking Maori heath statistics, but most of all you have to totally ignore any blatantly racist statements made by John Harawira, Maori party MP.

You may ask how I came to this shocking conclusion, the answer is fairly simple really, I simply took the Green party stance.

National, Labour, ACT, and even United Future have all spoken out against Harawira, however, not a peep has been heard from the Greens.

This is because the Greens agree with John Harawira, the Greens best epitomise what it is to be politically correct, the Greens believe that only white people can be racist and that Maori can do no wrong.

So there you go people, being politically correct is not as hard as you once thought it might have been, the next time a little Maori child is killed or John Harawira makes a racist comment just blame it on the white mother fuckers.

It works for the Greens.

The Wave

British climate change campaigners have launched their new website and movement this week aptly called The Wave.

Well read people may recall that this is also the same name for a book where a history teacher conducts a psychological experiment on his students who are studying Nazi Germany. The book shows how easily people can be brain washed under the right conditions and if the right techniques are used.

Sounds awfully familiar doesn't it?

These Climate Change zealots have chosen their name well. Strengh through ignorance!

More about the Wave here.

News Story here.

PC Bullshit 2

The last few days have been bloody busy at work, I have been running around like a blue arse fly.
Most of our clients pay by internet banking or EFTPOS, however, for some reason we have had a lot of them pay with cash over the last couple of days.

I am not keen on leaving large amounts of cash laying about the place for obvious reasons so at about 4.00pm I thought I would race down to the bank and deposit the cash.

I eventually found a park, locked the car (there were a few Labour voting losers hanging around) and made my way to the bank, when I got there the fucking place was CLOSED!!!

Apparently some middle manager at head office had decided it would be a good look for the bank to close one day and for the staff to "spend a day in the community".

What fucking moron made that decision?, how are banks going to be more profitable or "user friendly" by spending a day "in the community", I do not want my bank spending my money on crap like that, I want my bank to be open during normal business hours so I can bloody well bank with the bastards.

Al Gore Billionaire

A week AWOL is a long time off the blogging - been flat out with work and pleasure meaning the blogging took a back seat. Back now and after reading this article, am all fired up!

Al Gore is going to be a billionaire after fooling enough people to allow him to recieve Govt grants to fund his green ventures. His fictional drama Inconvienient Truth brainwashed others to not question his ideas while the Nobel Peace Prize hit new lows (only beaten by this years recipient) by giving him further street cred - and working up the Greenwashers into a frenzy. And for what?

MORE FUCKING TAXES.

Al Gore through his contacts has spoken (and jetted) around the world putting the shits up Governments and organisations and is set to cash in. He invests in green companies and then reaps the returns. This is the same guy that has not once fronted up to debate his extraordinary claims from him movie and doesn't have the backbone to debate with Czech President Vaclav Klaus over the issue, choosing to hide behind his rabid supporters.

Story here