How To Get Out Of A Recession

The same way you got in, apparently.

Front page of the DomPost today, the nation’s Head Boy John Key talks about how very much he agrees with his finance minister about getting NZ out of recession:

“We have the same strategy and … we are in agreement about what is required,” he said. “The speed you can argue about, but the prescription’s the same.”

That included getting better performance from the government sector, less regulation, a lower tax environment, trade links with the world, and policy reforms, such as to the Resource Management Act.

Hmmm. That prescription sounds suspiciously familiar. Is it, perhaps, exactly the same prescription offered by the Nats consistently for the last decade, regardless of the prevailing economic conditions? And, in fact, isn’t it exactly the same prescription offered by the right everywhere around the world, for every problem? Lily the Pink would be envious of the broad applicability of this particular medicinal compound…

(Edit: of course, I misrepresent the Head Boy’s plan, which has got one new bit in it – a national cycleway! Oh – hang on…)

3 thoughts on “How To Get Out Of A Recession”

  1. The idea in essence frees us from our shackles of the oppressive government!
    Bill O’Reilly would Key.

  2. I forgot the html doesn’t like “” thrown around haphazardly.
    Papa Bear+Key=Big ol’ pile o’ luv. Hot love.

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