This is all typical national parrotting straight from the neoclassical textbook, and/or blaming anybody but themselves for NZ's absolute basket case of an economy. If they hadn't destroyed 1000s of public sectors jobs in Wellington AND THE the ripple through effects that have rendered our capital city a ghost town, there would be much less need of talk about "job creation". As for cutting red tape, WHAT red tape?? NZ is the easiest place in the OECD to start a business, close it, register it, list it, bankrupt it... Whatever. 28 years resident in this NOT developed country and still waiting for somebody, anybody to challenge governments' ALWAYS simplified and nearly always patently wrong rubbish about how best to "fix" the economy. (Hint: about ANYTHING except EVERYTHING they've done to date. Considering we face maximum 10% tariffs as a favoured ally of the moronic but immensely unhinged and dangerous POTUS, it will barely scratch our terms of trade with key trading partners. Find another excuse morons. (Hint: back pedal on almost every I'll-formed, counter productive and entirely absent evidence policy decision and you just might start heading the right direction. Start with losing the obsession with reducing a current account deficit that is so low it's the envy of most countries on earth.)
Btw, running a country has virtually zero similarity to running a business so stop crapping on about how you're business smarts qualify you to run NZ Luzon. The "product" of sovereign nations are PEOPLE and they and the country do NOT prosper when you starve them when times get tough. On the contrary, now is the time to INCREASE your care, compassion and material support, ie BENEFITS. Not best up on the most impoverished, powerless and vulnerable people in the country. That, quite simply, is sociopathic bullying so stop it. Now. The "products" of business are goods and services, who couldn't care less if you stop producing, feeding, watering, exporting, etc, when times get tough. So, less rhetoric from the boring, tired same old text book and more action where it matters, works, is backed by evidence and doesn't further entrench NZ's disgraceful inequalities.
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