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NZ might be reliant on the dairy industry but prices of all commodities go up and go down, and if Robbo wasn’t spending like a drunken sailor he wouldn’t have put the country in this position. It’s Murphys Law; spend and budget based on every best case scenario occurring and then stand back and watch what happens in reality. Robbo is finding out the hard way.
So what’s the answer to being reliant on the dairy industry?
Kiwifruit? Doing it.
Logs? Doing it.
Wool and lamb? Doing it.
Gold mining on DOC land? The Left aren’t interested.
More Public Servants? “Yeah, let’s do this! That’ll bring in foreign exchange and fix our balance of payments problem!”
The Left seem to think increasing the size of the bureaucracy and bringing in immigrants are the answers to all our problems. They aren’t solutions, they just make more problems.
‘What does govt spending have to do with dairy prices?’
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Well if a Panda is budgeting on getting 14 kgs of bamboo a week to meet its dietary needs but is only getting 7 kgs, then you’ve got an issue. Trying to use an analogy that you may understand. In this analogy bamboo = revenue.
You are the only one suggesting increasing bureaucracy. Labour got rid of DHBs, proposed 3 waters to reduce to 4 entities from 67. Reforms to the RMA.
The obvious thing is further diversification and added value products.
We are poisoning our fresh water.
The run off from farms mostly heavy cattle is causing loss of topsoil and sitting up our estuaries.
Logs is good example. We aren't doing it right.
This is an area we should look to add value rather than just ship logs offshore & leave the mess behind.