Stefan Olson
@stefanolson
Windows (WPF) Developer in New Zealand
I hope so, look how good Bluebridge is, look how much better Air NZ is part private than it ever was fully state-owned or it is compared to Kiwirail.
National is going to privatise. Just waiting a bit longer.
Butter is emblematic of the effects of Government interference in free markets. Woke EU politicians are try to tax cows out of existence. EU farmers are going out of business causing a global shortage. A reminder green policies are inflationary and act as a tax on the poorest.
Terrible times under the Coalition.
The NZ Govt could learn a lot from this @chrisluxonmp
Javier Milei fired 50,000 government employees, cut the government by 30%, & reduced the government ministries from 18 to 8. All while lifting 2.4 million children out of poverty, killing inflation, & providing a fiscal surplus every month of 2025.
Capitalism, small government, fiscal responsibility …
🚨 Breaking: Extreme poverty in Argentina 🇦🇷 drops another 18% during the past year, to a new low of 7.4% Real wage growth is now outpacing inflation. @JMilei's miracle is unstoppable!
Anyone know if the X algorithm has changed lately? I've been getting way more detail about a Coldplay concert in America than Labour Party policy in my own country 🧐
Indeed. The best govts of my lifetime, 84-88 and 90-93 made massive change for the better, but was REALLY hard at the time.
We need to start electing politicians (if we have to) that are not scared to make monumental change, instead of tinkering, I dont see any party offering that
Thank god for rich people…because poor people pay bugger all…NZ pays more tax:GDP than any of our trading partners including Aussie…so yes we are a heavily taxed country funded by the wealthy
This is a ghost supermarket. There should already be a Woolworths on this site in Halswell, Christchurch. But it took four years and $3 million just to get permission to build it. This is why grocery prices are so high. Firstly, the $3 million cost to get resource consent is…
Britain built its last reservoir in 1992. Since then Poland has built *six* new reservoirs. Britain built its last motorway in 2003. Since then Poland has added over *1,300km* of new motorway. And each year per person, Poland builds *twice* as many new homes as Britain.
By the end of this decade, Poles will be earning more than Britons because their government actually trusts its people to keep what they earn and supports families with real help, not handouts
I have no objection to a company inviting Mana Whenua to conduct karakia. If it's mutual, but they still want it to be written and enforceable, use a memorandum of understanding or even a contract. But not in a resource consent, under threat of prosecution, fines or imprisonment!
From the resource consent for IKEA in Sylvia Park. This is the kind of fluff that ties up consenting processes and makes everything we do slow and costly in New Zealand.
16 year old murder: have compassion, their brains aren’t fully developed at 16 16 year old voter: they seem pretty informed on the issues!
BREAKING: 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in next general election news.sky.com/story/politics…
Wanna reduce unemployment? Yes? Ok then. Lower company tax. Iwi businesses have already shown the growth it can bring.
An X-post from an ex-PM who left the country in so much debt that we are now paying $9 billion a year in interest payments on that debt. That’s more than it costs to fund police, courts, and corrections - combined.
The price of butter is up nearly 50 percent since this time last year. That’s it. That’s my X post.
One of the decisions that make the Ardern and Hipkins Ministries of 2017 to 2023 the worse governments of my lifetime. A decision of the utmost stupidity
Everything MBIE warned Jacinda Ardern would happen if she unilaterally banned oil and gas exploration has come to pass. Now she lives in America while we have to stay here and pay the cost.
Religion built western civilisation that’s why western civilisation is collapsing without it. You can’t have a culture without the cult.
Secularism is as much a factor in the success of western civilisation as democracy, capitalism, human rights and free speech
This is very important to remember. Labour left us with a complete mess.
The interest alone on the debt Chris Hipkins left New Zealand is more than the annual budgets of the Justice Department, Defence Force and New Zealand Police combined. That’s it. That’s my X post.
Government controls our power. You’re enjoying the effects of a government operated monopoly. But many don’t even realize they have a false sense of choice, or that the government controls them all. My power bill in the U.S. was $20 a month. It’s $750 in NZ.
Everything MBIE warned Jacinda Ardern would happen if she unilaterally banned oil and gas exploration has come to pass. Now she lives in America while we have to stay here and pay the cost.