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To: elmatador who wrote (26930)	12/28/2007 3:15:42 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218209

That was my and my brother's argument 36 years ago when "industrialisation" and importation of lots of people to boost population were considered good things: <Let them go to OZ. Only NZ farmers are needed to produce food. > We said that all NZ needed was a bunch of farmers and enough mechanics to service their Jaguars [luxury vehicles]. Obviously that's a slight exaggeration, but it's the same point you make. We even had car manufacturing [unbelievable but true] until a decade or so ago. It was crazy and the last 40 years of ridiculous ideas have taken NZ from pretty well top country on Earth to somewhere way down near the developing world. Okay, that's a slight exaggeration, but very many countries which were poor and of interest to Kiwis to go shopping for bargains and to see how prehistoric people lived are now far ahead of NZ in economic ways if not kilometres of beach per capita which is not an achievement, just luck. Mqurice