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My first car I bought in 1982. 1973 HQ Holden, named the 'Pink Panther' I just turned 20, I went looking for my own house but the banks wouldn't give me a loan, the house was 20 grand. I said fuck it. and I bought this with my deposit, 2 grand. We were together for a long time.

Who else thinks David Seymour and the ACT party saving around $130m per year on Labours over priced school lunch programme, was well worth their efforts… Or is the odd lunch being late or not hot enough, too catastrophic to bear?

It is hardly surprising the media is lashing out at me. I’m outspoken about how much damage the current crop of journalists have done to trust in the profession and that I think they’re negligent and biased. They are attempting to gatekeep the dissemination of info but that train has already left the station. Kiwis are looking elsewhere for news. And the more we offer alternatives, the more they will try to cast us as illegitimate, audacious, and having political biases. That last one cracks me up given how completely politicised and partisan our media has been for some time. I’m right wing? And that’s a problem. Okay. This from a media class that was polled as being almost entirely far left or left. Their anger is entirely predictable.

Millions of litres of water given away to offshore industries. NZ doesn't get a cent. We DO get e-coli and cryptosporidium for free tho. facebook.com/10000017246274…

Just talking to daughter in Melbourne. They've got free public transport, petrol subsidies, road user charge subsidies, the government's organised extra fuel from Asia. New Zealand? Nothing. Zilch. Nada. The government doesn't give a stuff.

@rangir53 Truth is my life been much worse. I came from middle class, so never experienced poverty, which makes it a lot harder to cope. Went through that from 90s onwards with mass unemployment, then victim of crime & neo-liberal cruelty/neglect, did my best - its designed for us to fail

@rangir53 5 or 6 years ago I'm sure my daily charge was 30 cents, last bill it's $1.80 per day. That $54 month before turning on a light.

@Daryl595030671 @m_stewart I agree

@m_stewart @rangir53 I have never gotten how they can sell a asset that the people own without having consequences

why are they putting our power up another 8%, just recieved a notice? theyve already raised it 2 months ago

@Aandrew54 @rangir53 @JosephMooneyMP I am a farmer too. We are building a new wharf on the site of the old one. We began this project 5 years ago. Costs have now doubled for the materials and specialist builders. Cancelling the ferries should have seen Willis and Peters resign.This entire Gov is incompetent.

@spider_hoof @BeaumontBee 💯💯💯

You have lost this one, it's all down hill for National from here. Im a middle class farmer, I should be a classic dyed in the wool Nat voter, you have lost me, my wife and all my children. The Party is toast, the election will punish you, list and electorate Mp's will be gone and you won't get back.

Activist: "Drinking milk is for baby cows, not humans." Farmer: "Humans have been drinking it for 10,000 years." Activist: "We're the only species that drinks another species' milk." Farmer: "We're also the only species that cooks food, wears clothes, and writes books. Should we pack those in too?" Activist: "It's unnatural." Farmer: "So are antibiotics. Refusing those next time you get pneumonia?" Activist: "That's different." Farmer: "How? Both are things humans do that other animals don't." Activist: "Milk is meant for calves." Farmer: "Wheat is meant to reproduce the wheat plant. And yet here you are eating bread." Activist: "Most humans are lactose intolerant." Farmer: "Most humans of European descent aren't. We evolved the trait. That's how evolution works." Activist: "It's still weird." Farmer: "Weirder than flying across continents in a metal tube? Weirder than arguing with a stranger on a phone you didn't build, charged by electricity you can't generate, about food produced by a farmer you've never met?"

@cha0s10g1c whos been saying this nonsense to you?

New Zealand people assume if our country was cut off from the rest of the world, we'd somehow be self sufficient

@WarWeary17 @PronouncedHare Exactly.

@PronouncedHare It does not matter whether it is a contributory scheme or not. You have a reasonable expectation that your contribution helps the economy and that you also will benefit from the scheme that you have paid towards. The REAL problem is inept govt management.

Okay some very rough numbers here about why he is full of it. The median Kiwi earns around $62,000 a year. So let's say that over a 40-year working life, they pay roughly $465,000 in income tax. Of that $465,000 in lifetime income tax, roughly $79,000 is proportionally attributable to superannuation, based on super's share of government expenditure (about 17%). Meanwhile, a single retiree collects around $537,000 in NZ Super over a 20-year retirement. Almost seven times what their taxes specifically contributed to the scheme. The gap is funded by today's workers. No value judgment there. It's just a description of how NZ Super works. It is an intergenerational social contract. Current workers support current retirees, on the understanding that the next generation will do the same for them. Calling it "not a benefit" doesn't make it not a benefit. It is, by any technical definition, a government transfer payment. Framing it as a personal savings entitlement is simply not true. And it only works as long as people keep having families of sufficient size to ensure there will always be enough workers to support the retirees without crushing debt. From about the 1970s on, New Zealanders stopped having families of sufficient size to sustain the model without constant immigration (which he also opposes). The means-testing debate is legitimate. Reasonable people disagree. But the question isn't whether to "hack away" super from seniors. It's whether a retiree with $3 million in assets and $150,000 in annual investment income should receive the same universal payment as someone who retires with nothing. Means testing isn't going to save current and future workers from the crushing debt Winston Peters feels entitled to foisting on us, but sooner or later it's going to have to come into the picture.

Was repeatedly warned not to do even by the speaker but received nothing in punishment DOUBLE STANDARDS RULES FOR THEE NONE FOR ME

How Rob Schneider mogged Gavin Newsom: "Gavin Newsom said if you had more than a 1,000 people [when you] performed, then they had to bring their vaccine cards. So I said okay, just sell 999 tickets. I'm not going to force anybody to do anything."

@winstonpeters You have to fight this Matua, if Labour are going through with this, you need to stand for our pensioners as you did in the days of old. It was the pensioners, the grey power, that put you in government. They did this to my Father; everything he worked for was stripped away.

Chris Hipkins has said that Labour is willing to means test superannuation that would affect hundreds of thousands of kiwi seniors - just like they did in the 1980s. ‘Means testing’ is another way of saying the government will be able to refuse to give you your retirement super income if they decide you don’t deserve it. As the saying goes, when the going gets tough they always go after the young and the old first. Our Kiwi Super is not a benefit, it is a long standing Kiwi entitlement. Kiwis who are 65 or above have worked 30,40, sometimes 50 years paying taxes and building this country. We have an obligation as a government to look after our seniors in their retirement and protect their super. We demanded in our coalition agreement that super won’t be touched - this will never change while NZFirst has a say. NZFirst is the only party that will never allow the hard-fought Kiwi super to be hacked away from our seniors for any short term gain - the rest want to attack it and take it away.

@rangir53 I put very few heaters on these days and only heat the room I'm using. That $40 a fortnight is ridiculous, it should increase with inflation.

@tutugd I absolutely agree, Susan. Something needs to be done very soon, our pensioners have worked their entire lives to keep this country going, and now they are being penalized. I remember the days when matua Winston would fight for the pensioners, he has changed so much

@rangir53 Time to get angry at these cold, heartless price gougers. They don't care about Kiwis so we need a govt that will force them to charge fair prices (not this one).

@RichardC65099 Yes thats the same one we received, and my salary hasn't gone up since this government came into power. Plus, in the last 3 years, 70% of our workforce is Indian now. Just heard it from our manager. They were the replacement for the many that left for better pastures in Australia

@rangir53 Ours went up 25% plus similar rise in line charged. Also notified of another increase in June.