NZ First is putting New Zealanders First.

[C_T_Russell]

So far, two grandkids have said they're voting Green this time, too. I'd rather the Greens didn't have to work with the Nats, so the more seats they get, the better.

National will never work with the greens, they are far too much the polar opposite and many national supporters would be disappointed.

Yes, talking to my kids yesterday, saying how much the far right is split into so many small parties, but the far left only has the one...more votes go to the Greens.

Scary how much support the Greens are getting, I think in part it's the left voters who are pissed off with labour, but more younger voters will vote left anyway and will likely go green.
That's why they want to lower the voting age.
The Greens sadly are no longer about the environment but are turning into communists day by day.
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You're damning your own argument.

"Of course it's about the dollars?" has a lot to do with wealth.

"That money should be used to mitigate the effects and used for disaster recovery" Isn't that the reasoning behind planting trees?

If you're so upset about paying tax on fossil fuels get an EV and charge it from your own PV. If the investment involved in implementing that strategy doesn't suit your circumstances perhaps some proactivity would have helped a while back.

"LOL you think trump is to blame for all of this?" then you follow on by claiming how great his racist, devisive and inflammatory policies are. 
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No I'm not, I would rather them not place emissions levies on our fuel in the first place, but since they have gotten all that money, they may as well put it to proper use instead of giving it to rich people.
All that money could fix up hawkes bay. (Which by the way was not caused by climate change)

If only it was so simple to get an EV, they are expensive and nothing much in the way of trucks and SUVs yet either. Ford is introducing a new plug in hybrid ranger and the tesla cybertruck is still in the pipeline.
Easy for people like you who actually have all the money to install a huge PV and own an EV or two to go and say to others to do the same.
Making petrol unaffordable is just going to cause society to collapse and rise the cost of living, the greens and labour are doing a great job of that.

As far as trump goes, nothing racist about securing the borders. Why did they stop the wall being built?
The US has a border crisis and millions crossing illegally into the US.
It's intentional because they want to cause the country to collapse, then they have the power to take over with the WEF agenda.
What the left are doing in that country is pure evil.
My neighbor moved here from the US, he said that country is fucked.