And if we want to get ahead, everyone knows there must be trade-offs. No economic miracle, new business, or growth opportunity comes without a cost.
Whether its intensive agriculture on the environment or water to run the data centres that power your smart phones, every success costs you something.
The trick is to be reasonable and take risks then mitigate them, or just be willing to wear the costs.
The problem we have here is not a lack of opportunities, not even, in many cases, investment.
I was in Otago just recently - beautiful place, stunning.
There’s a gold mine permit been issued. Sam Neil’s dead against the project, as are many others.
There's opposition and legal challenges, etc, etc. Fair enough. He has a house around there and is worried about trucks on the road, etc.
But it’s also an area that would be serviced by this brand-new hospital Dunedin’s getting.
Half the towns and buildings in Otago wouldn’t be there to be begin were it not for gold mining. The permit’s been issued and the rest is set for the fast track.
Wānaka said no to a McDonald’s, in part due to concerns about healthy eating.
Residents objected to a solar farm in part because of something called lunar reflection, that the moonlight might reflect off a solar panel like it would, oh I don’t know, a lake or the ocean.
Which is all well and good but if we want stuff like new hospitals, highways, and potholes fixed, it must somehow be paid for.
There’s a little too much economic nimbyism going on for anyone to be seriously complaining about the state of things.
Ryan Bridge is a New Zealand broadcaster who has worked on many current affairs television and radio shows. He currently hosts Newstalk ZB's Early Edition - where this article was sourced.
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Dr David Wilson, NZ First MP gives an excellent summation of the illegal NZ banking cartel.
Aussie banks are making $8b a year in excess profits in NZ! Think about that number when you're feeling outraged at the kiwi battler distracting Maori bashing articles. The government has budgeted a mere $500m for addressing Maori issues this year!
AND what has NZs brain box finance minister done about this great Kiwi rip off. You guessed it, another expensive waste of time and our money, market study.
NZ mortgages cost 1% more than Aus which means we pay $500,000 more than aussies for the average mortgage.
Interest rates in NZ are double the OCR, that is an extraordinary markup of 100%.
Meanwhile, Nicola Ardern oops Willis sits quietly on the sideline allowing aussie banks to collude on their nz pricing then take their ill gotten gains to Australia.
Mr Luxon told us he entered politics to fix the joint so why is he supporting the dumb and dishonest Nicola Ardern oops Willis who allows the aus banking kiwi battler rip off to continue?
Has Luxon started taking advice from H Clark as well? Is Willis preparing for a 3 year, 4 star USA holiday?
Anon 7.34 And in the insurance industry State, NZI, AMI, all previously NZ owned and now Aussie owned taking huge sums. We really have had poor leadership.
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