It was the same sort of rhetoric mentioned above so I just hit the delete button.

You want real variables?
Transnational’s advantages combined with NZ’s FTA
Means international trade wars and brutal competition for existing businesses.
Why don’t you listen to Kay and stop pretending there is anything but profiteering behind the stupid policy.

Let market forces decide whether Student X is worth employing!

One more point to this foolish policy is that it is not treating two employees doing exactly the same job EQUALLY.NZ govt[not its partner] does have a specific legal responsibility not to implement this type of policy.

With Big Pharma’s new marketing book/diagnostic manual you may find you need that prescription[along with medicating 2yr old's for tantrums].

I am sick and tired of hearing crap about Sir Roger Douglas, he is a champion of modern politics and macroeconomics, he saved the economy of this country after a long period of economic decline caused by Muldoonism, he also generated a national understanding of contemporary political theory, he was a leader of international political philosophy, the inventor of the omnibus bill, and he stood for the end of the welfare state. If you are too young or foolish to remember he was a member of the Labour Party in the days when the Labour party stood for more nationalistic ideals. – that is the labour party before it lost it’s sense of moral realism…

I trust him unlike so many foolish people didn’t in the early 80′s, people will attempt to subvert his motive and link it to the wine-box affair, this is comparable to the experience Thomas Paine (the author of the US constitution) had in the 1780′s when he was accused of treason.

All I can say is that I don’t want to have to get a prescription for my margarine

New jobs come from expanded reserves, which come from expanded deposits and expanded loans, expanded business investment and expanded consumption.
The huge bank bailouts should have provided the first part of the expansion package [that just didn't happen].
It seems idiotic to simultaneously try to raise GST AND opt for lower wages which only serves to lower consumption.

Blinglish’s accompanying plan to sex up NZ bottlenecks and generally make public assets more ‘blingy’ to private Corporations.
Distracting.

Even if the govt agrees with “you have no rights- you are all but cogs in a self regulating [allegedly out of control] economic entity” it still should not support a policy that is at best pointless and possibly harmful.

sir Roger Douglas is a business lobbyist first and foremost.
The biggest concern ( Gordon pointed out )a distressing outcome is a displaced older group losing employment when they are replaced by Douglas’s tinkering just to lower business costs.

I would like to make two points. First, you say that “the period Douglas has chosen perfectly co-incides with the recession that hit the New Zealand economy, and every other economy in the world in 2008-2009.”

This is true. However, if you actually read what he has said, including on his blog, he points out that the increase is partially caused by the recession – what he is concerned about is the extent to which it increases much faster than previous recessions, as measured by its relationship to adult unemployment. The economist Eric Crampton has created a simple model you should see.

Second, you suggest that this is workplace discrimination. Article 30(2) of the Human Rights Act exempts under 20s from pay parity for those over 20. So, pay parity is not a necessity, but it will arise for those earning minimum wages. If this is a real debate about treating people equally, then people should be advocating to get rid of that section.