8 thoughts on “OECD’s Better Life Index, New Zealand Not So Good, Continues to Fall – updated”

1. THE SCHEME TO PLUNDER NZ’S RESOURCES, PUBLIC LANDS, CONTINUES AT AN ACCELERATING PACE, AND THE LABOUR PARTY, ESPECIALLY THE THIEVES AND CROOKS AT THE TOPS ARE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THIS LEGISLATIVE CRIMINALITY,
   CURRENTLY BEING ORCHESTRATED BY NATIONAL

   THIEVES ARE THIEVES, AND TO TRIVIALIZE THEFT AS A “ROW”, LETS LABOUR’S MPS OFF THE HOOK AS ACCOMPLICES
   NO ONE CAN BE THAT STUPID

   Row over $40m to plough into SI farms
   http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/8773960/Row-over-40m-to-plough-into-SI-farms

   is labour’s leader of the opposition david shearer an accomplice to nationals parliamentary thieves in selling off crown land on the cheap, so that farmers can make a 1,000 times profit on the sale ?

   presumably nationals parliamentary thieves have agreed on huge kick backs for this legislative criminality

   it’s as i said above nz, “i see mmp simply as a covert scheme by foreign financiers to gut nz, not to give new zealanders greater democracy”

   we all know national mps are thieves, one and all, but what is the leader of the opposition david shearer going to do about it ?

   i expect that coward and crook to DO nothing !

   just flop round impotently, with a helpless look on his face, maybe a few slimy comments to the effect that he’s helpless ?

   what he DOES will tell you if he’s a thief too, an accomplice ?

   he could show outrage, and make a promise that if labour is elected government at the next election, he and it, will negate all such crooked deals

   the land will be returned to the crown, seized

   it will be seized from any and all owners who bought it for the price at which the crown sold it

   that should kill ALL sales in the interim

   legislation will be passed by a labour government on becoming the government, reversing all laws enabling such crooked, corrupt transactions

   and what’s this other crooked and politically incompetent labour’s spokesman david parker doing by making such a statement as simply labeling it as “crony capitalism”

   what a crook !

   is that all the scumbag can come up with ?

   try the above suggestions if you ever expect labour to win another election ever

   and why wasn’t the leader of the opposition david shearer saying that the sales would be unwound as above ?
   and all profits clawed back ?

   are these two labour leaders totally stupid politically or are they also crooks waiting for their turn ?

   talk is cheap
   which is all david parker offered
   you don’t need to be very astute to realize he’s a crook also unless they change direction within the next few days

   what’s needed by labour short of tossing out shearer and parker in leadership roles, is ACTION, or a hard promise of what labour will do when elected at the next election

   then they, as government, will ram through legislative changes seizing the land, so that not one of the crooks benefit from this corruption and criminality, which dishonors the integrity of parliament and turns nz over to thieves plundering nz

   as forecast in my prior post

   blame MMP

   SUCH CRIMINALITY WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED UNDER THE PRIOR ELECTORAL SYSTEM, FIRST PAST THE POST

   AT THE MOMENT THE THIEVES ARE IN CHARGE

   IF THE NEXT ELECTION IS RIGGED, OR FIXED, AS IS HIGHLY LIKELY NOW, ONE SHOULD EXPECT A CIVIL WAR

   PS three or four decades ago the unemployment rate was officially around 1 %

   labour, and national have been deeply involved in the destruction of the welfare state

   now that is gone

   NOW, IT’S A WELFARE STATE FOR THE THIEVES

2. if some of us could leave NZ behind right this second, teleport style, to sink in its own swill, we would. Most of us have family ties there, making leaving difficult, or can’t sell crap house, or can’t reverse transfer pension, or have developed health problems, or trying to jump to another job requiring some faraway employer to take a punt on you after falling professionally behind in NZ, or are merely saving to leave. Leaving is much harder than coming, because you no longer have money. It was sucked off us by desperate hungry wankers like you whose public relations bullsh*t about their country caused people to want to come in the first place.

3. MMP, GREATER DEMOCRACY, OR A COVERT SCHEME TO
   PRIVATIZATE/PLUNDER NZ

   i see mmp simply as a covert scheme by foreign financiers to gut nz, not to give new zealanders greater democracy

   health care
   increasing privatization
   from a once public benefit, to a means of exploiting nzers
   nz’s health care 1st, crap !
   nz was 42nd out of 191 per who in 2000
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO%27s_ranking_of_health_care_systems
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_New_Zealand

   unemployment
   massive unemployment; not the official ie lying undercounting at 7.3 %; but double it to 15 % ie one in six or seven of the nz work force at least is out of work
   what will the labour opposition do ?
   don’t hold your breath
   nothing ?
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemployment_rate

   increasing income inequality
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality

   leave nz
   leave nz for 3 years its crooked political parties, national and labour, have gutted your right to vote
   and
   go say to the us before 50, national and labour, have both gutted ALL your superannuation entitlement, every penny

   education
   very exploitatable
   a two tier educational system
   for the kids of the ruling class, and the rest
   especially, in tertiary education
   education, once a system promoting socio-economic equality, is now a class based system, based on ability to pay, the old uk class system based on hereditary privilege has come to nz

   shouldn’t nz simply abolish parliament and have the governor general rule the country if
   if they’re eager to install the extreme reactionary english class system

4. great analysis! the print on the chart (Aus vs NZ, indicators) is light in colour and very hard to read. Any possibility of scanning and brightening the image and re-web-publishing it?

5. I am surprised that housing rates 11th as it should be much lower. Some houses here have no central heating, double glazing or insulation and electricity to heat your home is so expensive that old people stay in bed with a hot water bottle as its too expensive for them to turn on the heater. Climate change has meant Nz is getting some freezing winters now with freezing temperature. As a kid growing up in Christchurch Nz it only snowed in the city twice in my entire childhood – now it is snowing in the city every winter. 5 people in my office went to bed last night in Auckland wearing beanies(wooley hats) as it was so cold in their bedrooms. I always feel cold in Nz due to the freezing winds and cold housing – I never remember feeling this cold in the UK.

   • The North Island has hit -5 Celcius in the past,
     South Island has hit -12 Celcius in the past.
     And it’s no joke: one person running the electric heater for themselves alone … he made up half the electricity cost for our rented house (full rental was ~400/week, monthly electric bill for that July was ~NZD200!).
     Yep, I remember snuggling up with the hot water bottle. On the other hand, coming from a warm country you fall asleep SO FAST it’s not funny.
     Good thing I was working at University then, such a sleep cycle would have played havoc with my academic performance.

6. ‘Australia Tops OECD Better Life Index, Leading Sweden, Canada’

   Australia is the world’s happiest nation based on criteria including income, jobs, housing and health, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said.
   Australia led Sweden and Canada, the Paris-based group’s Better Life Index showed, when each of 11 categories surveyed in 36 nations is given equal weight.
   More than 73 percent of people aged 15 to 64 in Australia have a paid job, above the OECD average of 66 percent, while life expectancy at birth in Australia is almost 82 years, two years higher than the OECD average, the survey showed.
   Australia, the only major developed nation to avoid the 2009 worldwide recession, remains at the top of the OECD index even as a mining boom powering economic growth crests and the government forecasts unemployment will rise to 5.75 percent by June 2014, from 5.5 percent last month.
   “Australia performs exceptionally well in measures of well-being, as shown by the fact that it ranks among the top countries in a large number of topics in the Better Life Index,” the OECD said.

   http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-27/australia-tops-oecd-better-life-index-leading-sweden-canada.html

   I bet you won’t see that headline reported in New Zealand.

7. I wouldn’t move to Australia, too many kiwis there.

   As a kiwi living in USA; I have not seen a single kiwi since moving here and am thankful.

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