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In a case of 'pot,meet kettle' Roger Douglas has said that finance minister Nicola Willis should resign.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/573...-to-resign
Nicola Willis points to global turmoil...America's fault, apparently...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/573...ks-sharply
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/573...ng-economy
Luxon claims she's done an absolutely outstanding job...
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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Douglas thinks she should have made more cuts in spending...
I do have other cameras!
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I see they're now back to blaming the last government and Covid as well...
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Douglas is probably heavily invested in the stock market and not getting the returns he expected, hence the criticism.
It's a dog eat dog world when all you're doing is scrabbling for money.
I thought we were supposed to be turning consumption of fossil fuels down and settling back into a more graceful lifestyle to try to combat global warming.
The other alternative is they know it's too late for that and they're all (Peter Thiel etc) going for broke and setting up hidey holes before the rot really sets in with a buffer zone of ordinary NZ'ers to tend to their needs into the future.
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He'd be happy if GST went up, yet again!
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(This post was last modified: 19-09-2025, 03:43 PM by Lilith7.)
(19-09-2025, 01:00 PM)Praktica Wrote: Douglas thinks she should have made more cuts in spending...
Well - he would, wouldn't he....
(19-09-2025, 03:04 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Douglas is probably heavily invested in the stock market and not getting the returns he expected, hence the criticism.
It's a dog eat dog world when all you're doing is scrabbling for money.
I thought we were supposed to be turning consumption of fossil fuels down and settling back into a more graceful lifestyle to try to combat global warming.
The other alternative is they know it's too late for that and they're all (Peter Thiel etc) going for broke and setting up hidey holes before the rot really sets in with a buffer zone of ordinary NZ'ers to tend to their needs into the future.
Yeah...my heart bleeds for Douglas - poor him,just not getting as much as he expected.
And they might do well to keep in mind that those hidey holes will almost certainly be known to a good few people...
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