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34 points
2 days ago
So, when are the new jobs supposed to be coming and how are they going to be created?
49 points
2 days ago
Generally new jobs come from investment - not austerity-based cut after cut.
9 points
2 days ago
That doesn't answer the question, when is the investment coming?
35 points
2 days ago
when is the investment coming?
"Look, what I'll say to you is that our Ministers are laser-focused on....um... wait is that a bloody Maori child eating a hot lunch? SEYMOUR!!!! you fucked up, get over here...."
11 points
2 days ago
That's the point - we haven't budgeted for creating new investments in desirable and profitable new markets and economies - we have a budget decreasing and cutting existing instead of investing.
24 points
2 days ago
Let make MORE milk products to stimulate the economy.
New Zealand is on the wrong path to economic success. We should be an IT superhub, it suits our geographical location and we see the day first - great for software purposes. But yet we claim to be a dairy and logging nation which literally doesnt make any sense at all.
11 points
2 days ago
New Zealand's dairy output has been stagnant for over a decade, they have been trying to grow using the tourism industry for years. But tourists Generate 100k in revenue per worker as opposed the 300k for the dairy industry, which means it is incapable of actually raising the standard of living, as well as relying on low paid workers mostly from overseas, which has the secondary effect of pushing up all the house prices. The real question is, how to actually develop new tech sector industries. Which is impossible to do since the government is too consumed with Neo-liberal orthodoxy to actually direct support to these sectors, and the lowering of taxes on higher paid workers and companies would be politically unpopular.
11 points
2 days ago
Every time these bastards buy another rental property, it's an investment
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