What rhetoric? It is not possible to have 'an amount' of jobs.
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http://tvnz.co.nz/business-news/john...igures-5549786
1000 during the construction and 800 once running supposedly.
but when the govt wants a new ferry built creating / maintaining boast builders jobs in NZ don't count if Bangladesh workers can do it cheaper
This is what elzorro (Easy) has failed to tell us.
Easy (EZ) new figures released in Dec. indicate New Zealand's economy is booming thanks largely to a big increase in milk production.
Statistics New Zealand estimated GDP grew at an annual clip of 5.6% from July through September. Over the year, the economy grew by 3.5%. By comparison, the economies of developed nations averaged 1.4% growth over the year. We were double 1.4% and some more - that's great news Easy.
The September quarter was the strongest in nearly four years, driven by a 17% increase in agricultural output as farmers recovered from a drought earlier in 2013. International dairy prices have also been robust. Easy, more great news.
A survey released recently by the ANZ Bank indicated that business optimism is at a 15 year high and farming confidence is at a 19-year high. The government is predicting it will turn around years of deficits and begin posting fiscal surpluses in the year beginning July 2014. Easy, you probably don't see this as great news, but it is and you would be wrong again if you would be so bold to make a claim to that effect.
In the latest quarter, the statistics agency reported that manufacturing was up 1.5% and household spending up 0.4%. A $770 million increase in total manufacturing inventories this quarter is the largest build-up since the series began. Again, great news Easy, is it not?
Despite what was said about the Christchurch rebuild, Increases in agriculture and manufacturing production were partly offset by declines in construction (down 1.0%), as falls in infrastructure and commercial construction outweighed an increase in housing construction. Investment in housing was up 8.5% from the previous quarter. Business services went down 0.8%, with most sub-industries down, except for architectural and engineering services. How say you Easy?
Is this not all good news that you fail to disclose Easy? Good news indeed and the total opposite of would you have been saying, but you would know better. I think the lie has been a convenient one by you, ahh that is of coarse if you can prove all these released facts are wrong. Go ahead make my day.
As far as the Christchurch Earthquakes go, I can't believe the loonie left here would suggest it has unfairly boosted National figures somehow. Unbeilable, how much money has our National Govt. had to spend so far and make up for in other areas? And they have with solid GDP FIGURES ABOVE.
Sky City is a business deal that has created jobs for Auckland - fantastic. What's wrong with that. I hate Gambling so I don't go there, I don't smoke but I don't have a problem with those that do. Gambling and smoking is legal in NZ and until that is not the case, the loonie/greenies have not got a leg to stand on. That's why they are called the loonie left I guess.
All of the above figs. are just one quarter, that's something Labour can only dream of..
From the same article:
Ok, that's still a reasonable number of new jobs. But it's not 800. It could be up to 800 casual part-time positions maybe.Quote:
Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei said findings of a New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) report she obtained under the Official Information Act show that Auckland is predicted to gain only 380 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs during construction and 340 FTE jobs after that.
Here's the article you quoted from, Cuzzie. It is easy enough to be confident about the next year when dairy prices are around $8 a kg and near their best result ever. Plus the govt may finally be able to spend a little less than it receives in income. My argument all along has been that if jobs are cut from the economy, there are less taxes paid, and there will tend to be more beneficiaries. Without having to change their market economy thinking, National have simply waited until the Christchurch rebuild and the unexpectedly high dairy prices fixed the govt income gap. They have nudged unemployment higher by dropping state staff where they thought it wouldn't be noticed too much. The private sector followed the lead.
In the SST today, there is a chart which shows ACC payouts drop back in years National are in, and tend to increase when Labour is in. The number of court cases with people protesting their ACC claim increases when National are in, and 50% of them win their case. National virtually changed the entire board of ACC when they came in after the 2008 elections. Similar things happen to community trusts.
The National Govt has also severely pulled back on asking for construction tenders on Hospitals and Schools, about 50% of previous value. So it's just as well there is a lot of work in Christchurch for the private sector.
Manufacturing is picking up. A fair bit of it seems to be for the Canterbury construction boom. Here is a chart from June 2013 showing that our overall exports have not greatly exceeded the levels seen when Labour were in power, and have been trending down since mid 2011.