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    From Rich80105@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 30 13:13:39 2025
    Two good items recently - sadly they are pointing out major issues
    with our government rather than good news; but good news is more
    scarce now than before the Coalition of Chaos was elected . . .

    https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/03/this-is-not-democracy.html

    Quite apart from not trusting the government to keep its word - that
    is getting too regular to be seen as unusual, yet again the government
    is effectively saying they are not listening, despite having promised
    that they would.

    The process of reviewing submissions is not hard - generally they
    become quick to read for standard phrases, and most can be summarised
    by issue quite quickly. Those that do not fit that pattern may take a
    little longer. If they used AI for the 200,000 online submissions they
    would be able to merely count submissions that are identical or near
    identical, but without someone doing the work the true views of New
    Zealanders who sought to be heard will not be heard.

    This issue goes to the integrity of the whole government - and the
    solution is readily available to the Prime Minister - he should ensure
    that Parliamentary Services are told to hire additional staff to
    undertake this work - there are plenty of laid-off public servants
    around who would be happy to have a few days or weeks work to ensure
    that the Select Committee gets accurate information about the
    submissions that have been received.

    If they do not, we will know that they, like some other authoritarian governments around the world that are well known, this government just
    does not care what New Zealanders think - they believe they and they
    alone know what is in their best interests, and they don't want to
    know other views . . .

    Then there is : https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/03/climate-change-more-subsidies-for-tiwai.html

    There is a reason that the government is not prepared to adequately
    fund School lunches, schools generally, hospitals, tertiary
    institutions, the unemployed, the disabled - they are too busy
    providing subsidies to businesses. It is clear that they don't really
    believe in a free market - they just want to subsidise their mates. No
    long term planning; the ethos of Act1stNational is to loot for as long
    as they can, rip off the poor and middle class to pay political
    donors. Are Seymour / Luxon / Peters any better than Trump or Putin?

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Rich80105@hotmail.com on Sun Mar 30 00:53:57 2025
    Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    Two good items recently - sadly they are pointing out major issues
    with our government rather than good news; but good news is more
    scarce now than before the Coalition of Chaos was elected . . .

    https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/03/this-is-not-democracy.html

    Quite apart from not trusting the government to keep its word - that
    is getting too regular to be seen as unusual, yet again the government
    is effectively saying they are not listening, despite having promised
    that they would.

    The process of reviewing submissions is not hard - generally they
    become quick to read for standard phrases, and most can be summarised
    by issue quite quickly. Those that do not fit that pattern may take a
    little longer. If they used AI for the 200,000 online submissions they
    would be able to merely count submissions that are identical or near >identical, but without someone doing the work the true views of New >Zealanders who sought to be heard will not be heard.

    This issue goes to the integrity of the whole government - and the
    solution is readily available to the Prime Minister - he should ensure
    that Parliamentary Services are told to hire additional staff to
    undertake this work - there are plenty of laid-off public servants
    around who would be happy to have a few days or weeks work to ensure
    that the Select Committee gets accurate information about the
    submissions that have been received.

    If they do not, we will know that they, like some other authoritarian >governments around the world that are well known, this government just
    does not care what New Zealanders think - they believe they and they
    alone know what is in their best interests, and they don't want to
    know other views . . .

    Then there is : >https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/03/climate-change-more-subsidies-for-tiwai.html

    There is a reason that the government is not prepared to adequately
    fund School lunches, schools generally, hospitals, tertiary
    institutions, the unemployed, the disabled - they are too busy
    providing subsidies to businesses. It is clear that they don't really
    believe in a free market - they just want to subsidise their mates. No
    long term planning; the ethos of Act1stNational is to loot for as long
    as they can, rip off the poor and middle class to pay political
    donors. Are Seymour / Luxon / Peters any better than Trump or Putin?
    If you seriously believe what no right turn publishes then you are part of the problem.

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