http://johnkey.co.nz/ Rt Hon John Key - Prime Minister of New Zealand en Serendipity 1.4.1 - http://www.s9y.org/ national@parliament.govt.nz national@parliament.govt.nz Wed, 22 May 2013 21:03:04 GMT http://johnkey.co.nz/templates/default/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://johnkey.co.nz/ 100 21 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7858 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (Dianne) Very Good responsible Budget John/Bill. Well done. Mon, 20 May 2013 08:35:21 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7858 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1141-PMs-speech-notes-on-Canterbury-earthquake.html#c7857 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1141-PMs-speech-notes-on-Canterbury-earthquake.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1141 nospam@example.com (Sarah Miles) # 1: its just too bad there's no follow-through. Sun, 19 May 2013 17:09:32 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1141-guid.html#c7857 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7856 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (John Finch) Such opinions are alwright for utopia. I believe in the real world. Everbody need a leg up sometimes.and kids should get everthing they need. Sun, 19 May 2013 11:10:27 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7856 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7855 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (Rae Mills) Well done the JK led Govt. Now bring on the Bye Election in Ch East. Sat, 18 May 2013 17:10:44 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7855 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7854 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (Philip Brown) It does sound very nice and gives warm fuzzy's to hear all the good things the government has done and will do for the country.The reality as I see it is quite different.Throwing money at problems will have only a minimum impact.The answer lies more with the spirit and determination of the citizens to achieve something better for themselves.Welfare only works if we are living in a buoyant economy to provide the necessary funds.It is time for the nanny state to disappear and the true quality of human endeavor to be expressed.Welfare is more additive than cocaine. Sat, 18 May 2013 13:10:34 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7854 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7853 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (John Finch) A lot to be pleased about in budget. However things like School Kids needing help. would be fine if we could leave it to the parents,but with drugs,booze,gambling(SKYCITY)we can not. Look after the young ones NOW and we will avoid a lot of pain in the future. Sat, 18 May 2013 12:58:46 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7853 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7852 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (Alan Trotter) PM - 1. Child Poverty is indeed unacceptable in NZ and MUST be URGENTLY "sustainably" addressed. PLEASE "do" what you can - and more!! Things that were done in :"olden days" aren't necessarily "wrong" or inappropriate these days. In "Old Days" we scarce had any poverty - and NZ should get back to that status asap! 2. I wish to raise a serious concern - you and Bill English (& all of your Gov't members) regularly speak about "Back to Surplus by 2015" - but "Joe Bloggs" Kiwi doesn't understand really what that means - and with respect you need to better, yet more simply, explain it, and it's true ramifications. I believe the "Joe Bloggs" equate "Back to Surplus" to being "In the Black (i.e. in credit) at the Bank" (which of course it does not) - it simply means we don't have to borrow even more. The "Joe Bloggs" don't understand that ceasation of "debit Surplus" creates for the first time in a very long while the chance for NZ to START the process of paying off it's National Debt (huge at that - and thereby remove/reduce interest payments - and who knows how long low interest will persist to our good fortune). I suspect "Joe Bloggs" confuses the concept of "Surplus" with "being in actual Credit" immediately. You know; I know; a lot of Kiwis know - that with "Back to Surplus" we only begin to be able to address the repayment of our HUGE National Debt - and that that will take a long time (& in present conditions even some LUCK - as well as deliberate innovative policies imposed and sustained). I believe and respectfully suggest that you need to start "hammering" to the whole Electorate the state of our "National Debt" and it's need to be substantially reduced (albeit over time - but deliberately [and avoid interest rate "hikes" made externally, over which we have no control]). Many "ferral" people will think and believe in 2015 when "Back to Surplus" is realised and achieved that - "Oh goodie, now the Government has got money to spend on us poor folk" - when you won't - BUT THEY WON'T IUNDERSTAND THAT given their present state of "ignorant" mind. I say "ignorant" not unkindly - they have been mis-led so badly by Opposition parties to understand "fact" from "fiction" (for example - "Asset Sales" as opposed to the reality - "partiaal Asset sales") that they are quite understandably somewhere between "confused"; "Bloody-minded"; and/or "ignorant". PLEASE HEED MY ADVICE HEREIN - as the Country needs to understand that "Back to Surplus" is just the start of achievement of the full necessary process! PLEASE; PLEASE; PLEASE!!! Sat, 18 May 2013 10:21:10 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7852 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7851 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (Dianne Haist) Getting out of public debt is valid but more has to be done to encourage private reduction also. Sat, 18 May 2013 10:11:52 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7851 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7850 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (Delphinee Philips) no mention is ever made regarding the huge interest charged on student loans if you live overseas. 6.8% as against 4.99% etc for a house mortgage. When my daughter pays the $3000 she has to for a year the interest that comes out is $2600-no wonder these kids throw their hands up in the air and struggle to cope with that. They see no light at the end of the tunnel and just want to stick their heads in the sand. Sat, 18 May 2013 09:16:18 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7850 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7849 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (Trish Lacey) Re the current child poverty moral panic: I would like to point out what nobody seems to be voicing; namely that it is the responsibility of the parents to feed and clothe their children. I saw Hone Harawira shaking his head in disgust on tv at the lack of provision for child poverty, but in truth all parents are to some extent supported by government money already either through a benefit or through child support measures. Furthermore, Maori have been given 2.5 Billion (I think) in treaty settlements, plus hundreds of thousands of acres returned to them, surely expressly for the purpose of benefiting their own people so where is the benefit? The government is still battling to overcome the feeling of entitlement people have developed over the previous decades of handouts. John Key's government is doing an outstanding job and their policies are exactly what this country needs. Well done. Sat, 18 May 2013 07:47:54 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7849 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7848 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (Penny Cellina Maich) I think the budget is very honest and well set out to help everyone in areas that need it .Mr English has picked up Mr Key's financial analytical Brain in finances and with his own ability to put the whole thing together it has worked for all those in need,Good work gentlemen I know you help the people so much even though there are sceptics that donot understand a spreadsheet analysis Thank you very much and god bless you and the National Party Teamxx Sat, 18 May 2013 05:06:44 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7848 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7847 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (aaron goodman) i was a labour voter till i voted for you Sir and Thank goodness i did vote for you and my partner too .Thank you for saving this country and for your positive initiatives .We voted for Paula Bennet and we think shes great too . AARON GOODMAN Sat, 18 May 2013 03:12:25 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7847 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7846 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (Deb Beardsley) Well done. tough on us on a benefit and fuel tax will hurt but see where you are coming from.Can see i will have to restrict travel to Doc's appointments to shanks pony. Living on nothing now but that;s ok. So gratful for being a Kiwi and fightig the good fight to stay afloat! Sensible and back to basics - go John Key!! Got my vote. Deb Beardsley 205B Waimea Tce Christhcurch 8023 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:26:37 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7846 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7845 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (David Fleming) Great Budget. The building industry is such a huge factor in our economy and the increased employment that will result within the ancillary industries (such as roofing, furniture, carpet, paint etc, etc)is huge. More jobs = more income = more tax income = more social services. Well done. Please keep up the pressure on the local councils to free up the land. Fri, 17 May 2013 23:46:05 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7845 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#c7844 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-Key-Notes-Budget-Issue.html#comments http://johnkey.co.nz/wfwcomment.php?cid=1661 nospam@example.com (W.T.O'Donnell) Not a lot to make the older brigade feel more comfortable.Getting harder to keep up with the garden. ACC wipe you as you get older--any sign of Arthritis and it doesn't matter, how high you fell or hard you tripped!Power, rates, food & fuel all hard to cope with on the handout we are grateful and thankful to get. Dentistry, clothing, house maintainence--all on the backburner, of necessity--even hard to shout the grandlings the smallest pleasures. Cant afford health insurance any more after paying for it right through our younger and earning years, when we actually had little need for it!--- Be really nice to be able to loosen off the belt, just a little in our reclining years! Thanks for trying, anyway.Regards. Fri, 17 May 2013 23:04:37 +1200 http://johnkey.co.nz/archives/1661-guid.html#c7844