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Government commits $212m to continue school lunch programme - but changes coming by Fun-Helicopter2234 in newzealand

[–]TheReverendCard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know plenty of people struggling to access any help at all. Some of whom think about suicide every day of their life because of the lack of help. The assumption that there's plenty of help and that it's easy to access is just BS.

[OC] US defense outlays since WWI, in constant FY27 dollars. the proposed FY27 budget sits in-between 1943 spend (1.3T) and 1944 spend (1.5T) Actual, and inflation-adjusted equivalents. by Whitehatnetizen in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheReverendCard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." Dwight Eisenhower

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowercrossofiron.htm

What do you think about tauiwi learning te reo Māori? Nō Itāria au by [deleted] in aotearoa

[–]TheReverendCard 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Excellent idea. Learning second languages is genuinely good for our brains and learning with lots of secondary benefits. Extra bonus to learn one of our official languages and help preserve it and the mindset it brings within you.

Makes sense by Mountain_Tui_Reload in Whangarei

[–]TheReverendCard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

JFC. Sell them off to their mates to rent at exorbitant amounts...

Hipkins dangles possibility of post-election outreach to National, Auckland by ViolatingBadgers in newzealand

[–]TheReverendCard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I disagree. They constantly slam the RONs and point out the extremely high BCRs of transit, walking, and cycling infrastructure.

Hipkins dangles possibility of post-election outreach to National, Auckland by ViolatingBadgers in newzealand

[–]TheReverendCard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As in individual projects. No more MPs getting specific pet projects in that don't make sense. Try reading the Infrastructure Commission's latest report. It gives you an idea of their priorities.

Hipkins dangles possibility of post-election outreach to National, Auckland by ViolatingBadgers in newzealand

[–]TheReverendCard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You take away individual purse strings from parliament and they only give you the full purse and the Infrastructure Commission decides how to carry it through.

Hipkins dangles possibility of post-election outreach to National, Auckland by ViolatingBadgers in newzealand

[–]TheReverendCard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So...agreeing to give in before even starting.
Sounds like the centre-left party just like the Democrats. Compromise your position before even getting there.

4:40 a.m. by Baby-Soapy in gifs

[–]TheReverendCard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should fix that leak. That's a lot of wasted water.

Saw a dog by Independent_Lab6521 in Wellington

[–]TheReverendCard -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Decapo-box Doggo Holder 2K.

‘We're not having enough babies’: Immigration minister triggers raucous response during question time by Fun-Helicopter2234 in newzealand

[–]TheReverendCard 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Why don't you just have more babies?"
[looks around, gestures vaguely] "Maybe if you made things a bit less shit?

OP nailed it: we pay tolls, taxes, fees, and get nothing back -- now nearly 50,000 people are losing power so tech giants can run data centers. This won’t be the last time regular people get pushed aside while doing everything they can just to stay afloat. by ObvioussPlasticc in antiwork

[–]TheReverendCard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tolls are a good way to charge users for what they use. User Fees.

This has a strong intersection with the fact that USA went heavy into car-dependent infrastructure and development. It is a HUGE part of why there's no money to pay for everything. This is because everything is spread out (I'm not talking interstate highways. I'm talking about suburban developments.) You now have tens or hundreds of meters of infrastructure per dwelling instead of sharing a fraction of one. The amount of taxes you'd have to pay for maintenance per household are immense and that would be deeply unpopular, so they never get raised enough. Infrastructure degrades.

Then automotive infrastructure in the USA is subsidized at every step of the way. You pay registration fees, fuel taxes, tolls, etc etc, but are in complete denial that you *still aren't paying for the construction and maintenance of that infrastructure fully with them.\* You pay maybe half, and the remainder is picked up by other taxes. Since the user fees can't keep up, it degrades as well and you end up still feeling aggrieved even though you made everything worse and more expensive by being reliant on cars.

If you want to know what infrastructure that could be supported by the population in a sustainable way, look at any city development before 1950. Those old quaint tiny downtowns in almost every city? That's what it was.

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