National responds to business criticism
National has wheeled out a catalogue of 120 measures, apparently in response to a survey showing most businesses do not think the government has a plan.
The catalogue was released this afternoon by Prime Minster John Key, backed by a business-related ministers Stephen Joyce, David Carter and Hekia Parata.
Most of the catalogue is not new: the most significant new measure is a new $15 million a year "national science challenges" programme.
Mr Key singled this policy out for attention, describing it as the most important of the group.
Last week Business New Zealand/Deloitte's pre-election conference released a survey of the country's businesses which showed most do not believe National has a coherent plan to deal with the country's economic challenges.
Mr Key said today's release was "not really a response to that but [the survey] did highlight to us that maybe we are not doing all we could have done to put our programme out there there."
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Yawn
If you had any decent legacy policy you wouldn't need to roll out a catalogue of 120 measures to illustrate that you have.
This also should have been done a year ago so people could believe it
A $15M Science challenge is the most significant new initaitive??
WOW - how innovative and in sync with business needs????
The best measure Gov. can do.Reduce their level as a proportion of GDP, reduce taxes accordingly and get out of the way
How many more years do we have to put up with the government of the day producing stupid catalogues/measures/plans/challenges (call them whatever) that go absolutely nowhere. We have had knowlege wave conferences and IT initiatives that produce nothing.Seems the only winners are the government boffins who dream up such time wasting initiatives ,making themselves look busy and productive in order to keep their jobs! And the overpriced speakers who get sucked in to promoting the nonsense . This country needs to come up with a serious plan for growth that will provide much needed jobs and then upskill people to fill them as we have so many dead beats with no ability to do anything but menial work
Will the new catalogue prevent another downgrade? I doubt it.
It doesn't address the debt issue facing the country... so down the slope we go............
just cancel the emissions scam. That's all National. Just can it.
Too little,too late!
Key's focus has always been very short term,namely,the next election
What we must have is a longer term plan; we live in a rapidly diminishing hope.
liberte
Too little,too late!
Key's focus has always been very short term,namely,the next election
What we must have is a longer term plan; we live in a rapidly diminishing hope.
liberte
3 years of fluff and photo shoots are going to bite Mr Key
What an irony on the $15M science challenge
This Government canned a number of good funding inititives with the old FRST ( Foundation for Research Science and Technology ) and also great business initiatives with NZ Trade & Enterprise.
Key exhibited his level of business savvy when he introduced an increase in GST from 12.5% to 15%, in the middle of a recession. Buggared my business and that of my competitors, and the middle classes became worse off overnight. Thank you Mr Key, you're an incompetent fool without any concept of the reality of the hardship at the coal face of mainstream life, and small business in NZ.
The increase in GST caught me in the middle of a residential property development.
Provided employment for over 50 people in a recession.
But I'm a bad person. Unbalancing the economy apparently. I needed to be fiscally spanked so that other would see the light of investing in the stockmarket, not 'unproductive' housing.
Not what I voted for when I voted National, supposedly the business friendly party.
The politicians, the economists and the media just don't seem to get it through their thick heads. The building and construction sector is the barometer of any country's economy. Unless NZ can get back to around 25,000 new building starts pa (just to sustain the industry's infrastructure), then NZ is going nowhere.
"Socialism causes yet another massive failure with Greece. " - google this.
I hope every New Zealander reads this analysis and thinks deeply about our own direction here.
We effectively have over 1.2 million on welfare or less than two contributing taxes for every one on assistance. This is an impossible ratio and cannot continue.We buy each election with more social policy.
Government spending must be reduced to at least 30% of GDP. Eliminate working for families, compassionate changes to superannuation,changes to interest free student loans, competition for ACC, a new emphasis on personal responsibility and consequences for your decision making.
We have lost our resilience,family structure and ability to be independent and resourceful.
We are hooked on welfare and handouts and have lost the thought that handouts are not government money but someone elses earnings.
ACT is the only party that recognises what has to be done. John Key knows but won,t do anything and Phil Goff remains alice in wonderland.
In response. Greece was loaned money at extremely low rates.Overspending by government got country into debt.Us banls went under into recievership and could not continue to service the debt.Maybe the bankers of the US dollar caused this to happen?.Is NZ in on the same patten. It certainly appears to be in bankers hands.!.
In response. Greece was loaned money at extremely low rates.Overspending by government got country into debt.Us banls went under into recievership and could not continue to service the debt.Maybe the bankers of the US dollar caused this to happen?.Is NZ in on the same patten. It certainly appears to be in bankers hands.!.
"Socialism causes yet another massive failure with Greece. " - google this.
I hope every New Zealander reads this analysis and thinks deeply about our own direction here.
We effectively have over 1.2 million on welfare or less than two contributing taxes for every one on assistance. This is an impossible ratio and cannot continue.We buy each election with more social policy.
Government spending must be reduced to at least 30% of GDP. Eliminate working for families, compassionate changes to superannuation,changes to interest free student loans, competition for ACC, a new emphasis on personal responsibility and consequences for your decision making.
We have lost our resilience,family structure and ability to be independent and resourceful.
We are hooked on welfare and handouts and have lost the thought that handouts are not government money but someone elses earnings.
ACT is the only party that recognises what has to be done. John Key knows but won,t do anything and Phil Goff remains alice in wonderland.
socialism explained
h**p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqNL7sIhGs
Would be nice to actually see the list. Or a link to it.
*$ 90m donation to the global warming alliance
*cycle way
*the fiscally unneutral impact of the emissions scam
*preservation of the anti-family bill
*UN declarations signed on ingigenous people with no one knowing
all brilliant initatives.