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Because I'm probably going to want to look these up again
- Chris with some dollar and per head figures for the value of MPs

[link]In 1975 the average weekly wage was $95 per week (equivalent to around $850 per week in 2012). This rose to $157 per week by 1979

> Next stop, comparisons to the median wage where data is available.

1978 MP salary $18,000 divided by average hourly wage (1979)$4.52= 3982.3 hrs
1979 MPs= 92 population=3137800 rep 34106
2012 MP salary $141800 divided by average hourly wage(2012)$26.92= 5267.5 hrs
2012 MPs=121 population=4561000 rep 37694

So roughly and all perks aside, an MP’s value is now 1285.2 average working hours (32 weeks) more (24%), The average* number of New Zealanders represented by each MP being roughly 10% higher

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I/S provides a definition for "strapping the chicken"

>>** strapping the chicken.**

> Is that like spanking the monkey?

More like “stacking the deck”.

Its a piece of jargon from the US Star Wars program, where incredibly expensive but ineffective lasers were “tested” by shooting them at point-blank range at stationary targets, which had been painted black (to increase absorbtion) and tensioned to ensure they exploed messily at the slightest pinprick, and then declared “effective”. This was compared to strapping a chicken to a table, shooting it at point-blank range with a shotgun, and concluding “shotguns kill chickens”. The “result” is really an artefact of the artificaly simple test, rather than anything real.

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