MEDIAWATCH: Liam Dann finally becomes the Spectre at the Feast
He’s gone from popping the champagne bottles for the so called green shots of recovery…
Pop the bubbly, the economic recovery is here (finally) – Liam Dann
NZ Herald
…to being the spectre at the feast…
Ongoing export boom highlights just how broken the economy is – Liam Dann
THE FACTS
- New Zealand’s export earnings have reached a record $80.7 billion, but economic performance remains weak.
- Unemployment rose to 5.4%, though there was some employment growth for the first time in four years.
- The disconnect between export growth and economic health highlights structural issues.
NZ Herald
…when even a wide eyed free market cheerleader like Liam Dann has run out of vacant optimism, you know shit just got real.
He is questioning orthodoxy by pointing bout our exports haven’t raised economic activity and that’s because we have stripped out all of the internal economics that used to go with exploiting our natural resources.
Once upon a time a tree would be chopped down and milled here and turned into the product, now we just chop down the tree, ship it off shore immediately and have all the value done overseas.
Look at us selling all our dairy brands, now NZ is just a producer of milk powder as an ingredient filler for commercial mass made food.
The privatisation agenda has hollowed out real economic gains for streamlined profit margins.
We produce basic bitch raw materials with zero value added, that’s what NZ is now, that is what we have become.
The only way we make money is selling each other over priced housing built upon a low wage economy while exploiting workers.
Watching Laim wake up to this is glorious.
It also highlights the propaganda that goes with the farming sector, dairy in particular. They must be allowed to ruin the countryside with impunity because they are a cornerstone of the economy. Really? Of course we want agriculture in general to thrive but selling a few tractors at tractors at Mystery Creek is not doing much for us.