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Ryan Bridge: New Zealand needs a grow spurt · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: I have had it with people whinging about the state
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  Speaker 1: of this country and people flying to Australia who then
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  Speaker 1: refuse to stop and ask why we got here and
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  Speaker 1: how we get out of it. Chucking up a post
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok or waving a banner at a protest ain't
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  Speaker 1: going to cut it. Productivity. That's how much we get
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  Speaker 1: in for what we put out is crap. It's been
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  Speaker 1: getting worse or flatlining for decades now. Australia's is better
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  Speaker 1: over in Australia, wages of thirty percent higher. We're smaller.
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  Speaker 1: We have to be smarter and that means doing what
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  Speaker 1: the banner waivers of the world hate most. Getting roadblocks,
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  Speaker 1: innovation killers, ie government out of the way. Doing business
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  Speaker 1: needs to be as cheap and easy as possible. Education
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  Speaker 1: needs to be world class and focused on the right stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Let smart people be smart people and do what they
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  Speaker 1: do best. Invent, optimize, invest, grow, thrive. We did this
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  Speaker 1: post Muldoon with agriculture subsidies and deregulate. Does subsidies gone
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  Speaker 1: and deregulation and now we're the most productive in the
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  Speaker 1: world at it It's there are, of course, those who
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  Speaker 1: reckon the solution to all of our problems is to
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  Speaker 1: have a politician sign a piece of paper and artificially
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  Speaker 1: increase the minimum wage. We'll write a blank check to teachers.
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  Speaker 1: As academic results head south. The question for them is
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  Speaker 1: who's going to pay for it? When our best and
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  Speaker 1: brightest are leaving New Zealand and businesses are closing, who
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  Speaker 1: can afford that? Show me a democracy that got rich
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  Speaker 1: by increasing the size and influence of government, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you a million bucks, and not one of those
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  Speaker 1: Scandinavian ones which did it off the back of massive
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  Speaker 1: mineral deposits which we're not allowed to touch. Remember, we've
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  Speaker 1: fallen so far behind. We can't be managing a one
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  Speaker 1: and a half or two percent GDP economy. This country
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  Speaker 1: needs seven percent for at least three years. This country
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  Speaker 1: needs a growth spurt. We've fallen too far behind. Please
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  Speaker 1: don't be fooled by the false prophets waiving their banners
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  Speaker 1: and posting their nonsense. They've got no idea what they're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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