While the light bulb at Pahoia is a Local Government problem, I'm sure Central Govt. would love to take on the responsibility.
The Greens would replace said bulb with a garden solar light donated one of their candidates.
Labour would first have to produce a paper ensuring that the bulb would be in the best interests of all members.
National would happily replace it but only when we go into surplus which is going to be around 2025.
ACT and United Future would first like to know where Pahoia is.
The Maori Party would possibly get funding from the Waitangi Tribunal.
NZ First would replace the bulb immediately simply by pinching the one from Sulphur Point.

I'm very disappointed in Act and United Future. Pahoia is a few k's north of the Whaka shops. Very good takeaways and lotto outlet. Also home to the Pahoia Tigers ripper rugby champions.

SaltyC wrote: Come on now Steve, when the first policy announced by the new labour leader is a tax increase for aucklanders only, you have to expect some discussion.

I don't know if this has been posted elsewhere, but I think it's very useful. Well done LegaSea! Look at their website for more detail.

A quick update on the Pahoia boat ramp light bulb debacle.
I was denied funding from NZ on air for a TV campaign so I thought I'd ring the local council instead.
Q, could you please replace the bulb at Pahoia ramp?
A, Sorry sir, but that light has been decommissioned.
Q, Why?
A, The freedom campers complained that it was hard to get asleep with a bright light on.
Q, Ahhh ffs
A, There's a sensor light on the toilet block. If you walk up to it, it will come on and the light should reach the ramp.
Q, If I've found the toilet block, I've obviously already found the @#$% ramp you half wit!!!

[QUOTE=Reel Deal] I've had dinner with the labour leader and her parents when I lived in Samoa - top lady and good kiwi family, happy to catch them up next time I get the chance. National ha ha lying thieving capitalists who grow economy at the expense of the flora and fauna - including fish stocks....enough of that generation money is everything fold. Time for thinkers.

Denny Boy wrote: [QUOTE=Reel Deal] I've had dinner with the labour leader and her parents when I lived in Samoa - top lady and good kiwi family, happy to catch them up next time I get the chance. National ha ha lying thieving capitalists who grow economy at the expense of the flora and fauna - including fish stocks....enough of that generation money is everything fold. Time for thinkers.   Exactly-there's definitely a move afoot from this National government to now look away from the environment to keep it pristine, altering the script in Parks and Reserves Act to allow intrusion by greedy companies e.g. gold/coal mining in untouched forests, sand mining in Taranaki waters when to me they wouldn't have anywhere near the needed information as to the consequences and all of this by overseas interests! There's a reason why a lot of our rivers aren't swimable any more. And the main one to me is the diluting of the Resource Management Act to suit anything that they want. This is dangerous territory! This goes hand in hand with increasing population....do we really want 70,000 more people in NZ each year? Where do they go, where do they live? This government has shown they only want the money and have done very little to improve the infrastructure to cope with this influx. Winnie's policy on immigration suits me!!!

They have now said it could me many more as their previous way of measuring immigration has proven to be flawed.
Also do not forget, that 70 odd k of immigrants are all necessary, as they are skilled and filling our qualification shortages. Yeah right!
No way is immigration being used to prop up an ailing economy with hot imported money creating non productive demand (tongue in cheek).

So, we need to bring in thousands more immigrants to build houses to keep up with the demand for housing caused by all the immigrants that are coming in.  Something doesn't quite make sense there.

Clifftastic wrote: Not to mention Kevin that to build 10,000 houses in a year means that it will take 5.6 people a whole year to build a house....talk about lazy!

Does the rest of the building industry close down so we can all build cheap houses? Don't think so.

No matter how much this government ,or the next government,or the councils want more housing they have little control over it.
Banks have the final say and right now lending has tightened considerably. Reason new builds have slowed. And for potential builders who have the cash,they are not likely to build into what many perceive as a flat or falling market.
So only option is to borrow from overseas and add to our already crippling debt. And debt is the most significant problem we face.
We want it all without the pain. In todays world there is the inability to distinguish between money borrowed and money earned. The former is illusion,the latter real.

The words of the author and poet T.S Eliot sum debt up.

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" Debt drives speculation that deludes us into thinking we can defer the obligations incurred in time past and time present forever into time future.
So we live irresponsibly in time present making promises we can never keep.
What might have been real solutions to our problems is a mere distraction as leaders betray the future by committing grevious sins against the living,the dead and the unborn. Debt is the single most important symptom of the moral ,intellectual and spiritual collapse around us"

"Footfalls echo in the memory
down the passage which we did not take
towards the door we never opened
into the rose garden."