The CTU are running a series of videos on YouTube featuring young workers who have been dismissed under the 90-day probation legislation. The first caused a bit of a furor in that the young lady featured was also a Labour party activist. She is certainly an articulate young woman. I note that at no time [...]
I thought I might start a new series today, partly inspired by Labour’s release of yet another taxpayer-funded pile of nonsense and partly by Pete Hodgson’s series of posts aptly named “Silly Ideas” (Apt because his posts are indeed very silly…). Since Labour and their left-wing blogging friends seem always ready to misinform, I thought [...]
The scenes outside the National Party conference serve only to remind me that the left apparently continue to favour unreasoning force rather than reasonable debate to promote their views. I would be interested in someone with socialist/union leanings explaining exactly how storming a police cordon, and trespassing on private property, with the express purpose of [...]
If there was every a perfect illustration of how the left think all employers are evil it is this statement from Council of Trade Unions president, Helen Kelly. “Rewarding employers for a lower claims rate doesn’t reduce accidents but provides incentives for accidents to be covered up.” Employers could fail to report accidents, misrepresent them [...]
Idiot/Savant (well, just Idiot, really) posts on John Key’s comment on the politics of envy, so clearly beloved by that bloke who leads Labour, whatever his name is. That’s the clear message of John Key in saying that we should not be jealous that the rich will get massive tax cuts while everyone else gets crumbs. [...]
There is no doubt which side of the world-view divide the Herald on Sunday sits. They report: Sacked for teaching King Lear Shakespearean tragedy has become high farce, after a Christian high school sacked a teacher for using a “morally defiling” King Lear text in class. Suzette Martin, 40, was sacked from the private Westmount School [...]
De Beers, the diamond merchants, and specialists in certain disciplines are wealthy for exactly the same reasons. They both have something that is rare. It De Beer’s case, it is diamonds. In the doctor’s case it is his skills as a physician. I earn a salary way above the average for no reason other than [...]
No one has said that living on the minimum wage was fun or comfortable. The 25c per hour increase that the National Government has approved will not change that. It barely keeps pace with inflation. But that is not the point of the minimum wage. It is the minimum. It is not meant to be [...]
Most tax-funded subsidies produce weird incentives that cause overuse and/or overproduction of a product or service. Witness that enormous blow-out in physiotherapy costs as soon as the subsidy effectively made visits free. But there are occasional government subsidies that are economically worthwhile. The tax subsidy that encourages overseas movie producers to film here and, especially [...]
Hark! What is that strange disembodied twittering that I hear? Is it a ghost? A telephone answering machine? a vague afterthought? Yes! It’s all three ! It’s the Invisible Phil… Once again, Phil abandons invisibility in order to utter an inanity. It’s rather like watching a Klingon Bird of Prey on Star Trek, de-cloaking and [...]
