I’ve had it with people whinging about state of this county and people fleeing to Australia who then refuse to stop and ask why we got here and how we get out of it.
Chucking up a post up on TikTok or waving a banner at a protest won't cut it.
Productivity (that’s how much we get out for what we put in) is crap. It's been getting worse or flat-lining for decades.
Australia’s is better. Wages are 30% higher.
We’re smaller, we have to be smarter.
And that means doing what the banner wavers of the world hate most - getting roadblocks and innovation-killers like government out of the way.
Doing business needs to be as cheap and easy as possible. Let smart people be smart people and do what they do best: invent, optimise, invest, grow, thrive.
We did this post-Muldoon with agriculture - subsidies and deregulation.
We’re now the most productive in world. It's proof.
There of course are those who reckon the solution is to have a politician sign a piece of paper and artificially increase the minimum wage, or write a blank cheque to teachers, the question is: who's going to pay for it when our best and brightest are leaving NZ and businesses are closing?
Who can afford that?
Show me a democracy that got rich by increasing the size and influence of the government and I’ll give you a million bucks.
And not one of those Scandinavian ones that did it off the back of massive mineral deposits - which we're not allowed to touch, remember?
We’ve fallen so far behind we can’t be 'managing' a 2% GDP economy. This country needs 7% for at least three years.
New Zealand needs a growth spurt. We’ve fallen too far behind.
Please don’t be fooled by the false prophets, waving their banners and posting their nonsense, they have no idea what they’re talking about.
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Episode Transcript
I have had it with people whinging about the state
of this country and people flying to Australia who then
refuse to stop and ask why we got here and
how we get out of it. Chucking up a post
on TikTok or waving a banner at a protest ain't
going to cut it. Productivity. That's how much we get
in for what we put out is crap. It's been
getting worse or flatlining for decades now. Australia's is better
(00:23):
over in Australia, wages of thirty percent higher. We're smaller.
We have to be smarter and that means doing what
the banner waivers of the world hate most. Getting roadblocks,
innovation killers, ie government out of the way. Doing business
needs to be as cheap and easy as possible. Education
needs to be world class and focused on the right stuff.
(00:44):
Let smart people be smart people and do what they
do best. Invent, optimize, invest, grow, thrive. We did this
post Muldoon with agriculture subsidies and deregulate. Does subsidies gone
and deregulation and now we're the most productive in the
world at it It's there are, of course, those who
reckon the solution to all of our problems is to
have a politician sign a piece of paper and artificially
(01:07):
increase the minimum wage. We'll write a blank check to teachers.
As academic results head south. The question for them is
who's going to pay for it? When our best and
brightest are leaving New Zealand and businesses are closing, who
can afford that? Show me a democracy that got rich
by increasing the size and influence of government, and I'll
(01:29):
give you a million bucks, and not one of those
Scandinavian ones which did it off the back of massive
mineral deposits which we're not allowed to touch. Remember, we've
fallen so far behind. We can't be managing a one
and a half or two percent GDP economy. This country
needs seven percent for at least three years. This country
(01:50):
needs a growth spurt. We've fallen too far behind. Please
don't be fooled by the false prophets waiving their banners
and posting their nonsense. They've got no idea what they're
talking about. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
listen live to News Talk Set B from five am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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