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Don't let National Sell Your House!
Sep. 8th, 2005 10:55 amAnother quick word about National policy:
National are promising, very quietly, to return state housing rentals to market equity. The last time they did this, child poverty tripled, state houses were overcrowded, diseases spread much more quickly (including the meningitis B epidemic, which originated about that time & was aggravated by these kind of living conditions). Russell Brown has a transcript of a Linda Clark interview with Don Brash on this subject here; I advise you to go and read it now. It's the kind if idea that makes you furious.
Clark: Well, do you know what the social impact of [the policy of market rent equity for state houses] was in the '90s? Pretty straightforward question.
Brash: I don't have a comprehensive study there, but I know that it got many people into affordable housing.
Clark: The Child Poverty Action Group, which was formed essentially on the back of that policy, says that when market rents came in last time under a National government, the level of child poverty in this country was tripled.
(snip)
Clark: Have you studied the policy in the '90s?
Brash: Not in detail, no.
Clark: Do you not think it would have been a good idea to study the policy before you went back to it?
Also, the last time National was in power during the 90s, they sold 13,000 state houses, taking their rent out of control of the government.
Don't let National sell your house- or anyone else's. Vote Green, vote Labour, vote anywhere else (...except ACT who'd probably do the same thing...) DO NOT ELECT THIS MAN. He wants to return National's policy to one that's widely criticised and that he admits he hasn't studied the consequences of. JUST SAY NO to him.
Also: The Make-Your-Own-National-Billboard site is fantastic. That's a link to the rankings (vote for your favourite!) and I must say I am amused by the fact that they seem to be split between the generally mocking (What's your petrol Tax..., Is There A Surplus Or Not) the pro-Helen or Anti-Brash (How to Make Your Opponent Look Bad, Women Voters) the blatantly pro-Labour-including lots about foreign policy- (Rogernomics, Nukes, Ideologies) and the geeky (or geeky and all of the above, like All Your Base. *AMUSED* and stuff I don't get)
And Hypoxia is good. Oh, they're all hilarious, you should have a look.
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National are promising, very quietly, to return state housing rentals to market equity. The last time they did this, child poverty tripled, state houses were overcrowded, diseases spread much more quickly (including the meningitis B epidemic, which originated about that time & was aggravated by these kind of living conditions). Russell Brown has a transcript of a Linda Clark interview with Don Brash on this subject here; I advise you to go and read it now. It's the kind if idea that makes you furious.
Clark: Well, do you know what the social impact of [the policy of market rent equity for state houses] was in the '90s? Pretty straightforward question.
Brash: I don't have a comprehensive study there, but I know that it got many people into affordable housing.
Clark: The Child Poverty Action Group, which was formed essentially on the back of that policy, says that when market rents came in last time under a National government, the level of child poverty in this country was tripled.
(snip)
Clark: Have you studied the policy in the '90s?
Brash: Not in detail, no.
Clark: Do you not think it would have been a good idea to study the policy before you went back to it?
Also, the last time National was in power during the 90s, they sold 13,000 state houses, taking their rent out of control of the government.
Don't let National sell your house- or anyone else's. Vote Green, vote Labour, vote anywhere else (...except ACT who'd probably do the same thing...) DO NOT ELECT THIS MAN. He wants to return National's policy to one that's widely criticised and that he admits he hasn't studied the consequences of. JUST SAY NO to him.
Also: The Make-Your-Own-National-Billboard site is fantastic. That's a link to the rankings (vote for your favourite!) and I must say I am amused by the fact that they seem to be split between the generally mocking (What's your petrol Tax..., Is There A Surplus Or Not) the pro-Helen or Anti-Brash (How to Make Your Opponent Look Bad, Women Voters) the blatantly pro-Labour-including lots about foreign policy- (Rogernomics, Nukes, Ideologies) and the geeky (or geeky and all of the above, like All Your Base. *AMUSED* and stuff I don't get)
And Hypoxia is good. Oh, they're all hilarious, you should have a look.
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