David Rowe

@def_leppar20044 Revolver -The Beatles

Recommend one album everyone should listen to at least once...any genre.

@MaraetaiMike The late Brian Gaynor once wrote in the Herald that pensioners if Muldoon had left Rowling's Super scheme alone would be paid $1000 a week. We'd be a richer nation today.

@PronouncedHare If only National hadn't scrapped Labours forward thinking super plan way back with Muldoon at the wheel. We would be rolling in it. Typical short sighted Nats.

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.

@KoroTeeps @CathKakariki @haribaldijones @thepaulwilliams Dinny was a BOP legend. A tough prop renowned for his scrummaging prowess. Highly respected by his peers.

Wonderful tribute from Graeme Crossman for 85 year old Dinny Mohi who tragically passed while traveling to a dawn Anzac service in Rotorua. Powerhouse Maori All Black prop who played 156 games for Bay of Plenty. Tennis champ. One of the legends. @haribaldijones @thepaulwilliams

@Suzyiam @StellaParton I think our Prime Minister is enamored with Trump.

@StellaParton I think the only person in the world that doesn't know how crazy Donald Trump is, is Donald Trump

Do you think the rest of the world knows how crazy Donald Trump is?

@TheCoot5 @NZMorningReport Oh for the days when we had the likes of Brian Edwards Ian Johnstone, Simon Walker Tom Scott Ian Fraser David Excel

@NZMorningReport was once a bastion of clear cutting edge interviewing-now it is an absolute shambles-weak control of interviews,unfair standrds of questionning. Hipkiss remains utterly vapid, Campbell remains the bag of wind he has always been. #thankgodfortheoffswitch

@historyrock_ Running With The Devil.

Drop your favorite Van Halen song here!

@Suzyiam Not I!

So who is voting National or Act party now????

@JVMonte2 @MikeTilburn Benefit. Jethro Tull

What’s an underrated 70s classic rock album that more people need to hear?

@def_leppar20044 Led Zeppelin.

The last time you wore a band t-shirt, who was the band??

@def_leppar20044 Alter Bridge's new album called 'Alter Bridge'.

Happy Tuesday, rockers. What are you listening to today?

@def_leppar20044 The Chain

What's your favourite song by Fleetwood Mac?

@JVMonte2 Jack Bruce

Who’s the FIRST bass player that straight -up knocked your socks off?

@KiffinEileen @DaveKent101 I know thst feeling only too well.

@DaveKent101 ❤️

One of the saddest and loneliest walks you will ever do is that from the vets when your dog has been put to sleep. Carrying the empty lead and collar, you then return to a house full of toys and with food bowls. It really is a devastating experience. RIP Ben 2007 to 2016.

@ShimadaEri11956 Deep Purple

@ShimadaEri11956 They have so many great songs however One Day At a Time from Last of a Dyin' Breed stands out.

Besides "Freebird," what are your favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd songs? #lynyrdskynyrd #americanclassicrock

@TheExtremeMusi1 Who's Next

What album have you played from start to finish the most during your lifetime???

@Suzyiam @meco78526 Farrar was also a crucial member of John Key's dirty politics team in the first 2 terms of the Key government along with other scum like Odgers Slater Lusk Graham & Ede.

@meco78526 Curia is run by David Farrar, who is definitely a long term National party promoter. Can't trust much that they produce

Discredited curia the national party official pollsters releases a poll without a date attached to when they conducted it but the reality is we know the trend & they are desperate for the shadow atlas network government to hold power

@def_leppar20044 Presence

1976. pick ONE

@MahikRani50377 @ShimadaEri11956 8

How many of these have you actually used in real life? Be honest👀

@TheCatsX Chicken Pie

His name is the last thing you ate