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Ryan Bridge: The real fool from the debate was New Zealand
People seem to think Kamala Harris made a fool of Trump in the debate, but real fool was us, New Zealand.
Within 24 hours of the debate we got news of 230 jobs lost due in part to an energy crunch caused by moral grandstanding on climate change.
That's 230 jobs, but up to 1000 people including families. That's half the population of Raetihi and Ohakune.
Shane Jones calls it the hollowing out of regional NZ, and there's much more to come.
We also had news Methanex is consulting on mothballing, indefinitely, one of its two remaining plants.
Why? You guessed it - in part it's moral grandstanding…
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