"Look, Madame, where we live, look how we live ... look at the life we have...The Republic has forgotten us."
History demonstrates that any country with significant trade barriers, (self imposed or otherwise) rapidly deteriorates.
If the choice is a trade agreement involving NZ or a trade agreement not including NZ, (and that's exactly what the choice is) then it's a no-brainer: Get the best deal you can, but do the deal.
Although... maybe not. Iron curtains produce deep and prolonged depressions, Bamboo curtains cause immense hardship and retrenchment to near feudal conditions, but who knows, maybe a Ponga curtain would work to maintain NZ's status as one of the worlds top performing economies.
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Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Made out of Russia's second world rusty old nuke silo shells.
But there's the thing: nobody really gives a shit what politics causes a nation to go sulk in their bedroom, it's enough to note that their standard of living plummeted as a direct result.
Now, do yo want to play with the grownups? Or is the bogeymans too scary?
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
"Look, Madame, where we live, look how we live ... look at the life we have...The Republic has forgotten us."
Too early to tell. I don't expect much from what is still, after all a communist state.
Interesting comparing Cuba with what is supposedly a communist state with some of the worlds most open trading Policies...
http://incentiveseverywhere.com/2014...ard-of-living/
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
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