Politicians in Wellington cannot plan a long-term recovery. It must be a bottom-up recovery led by business and led by workers. It won't come from the Reserve Bank printing free money. It won't come from the Government trying to borrow its way to prosperity. Normally, it would be a caricature of a Labour finance Minister that he or she was dropping money from a helicopter. I had to read and check twice when I saw our actual finance Minister suggesting helicopter money might be an option. If the Government abandons sound cost-benefit analysis and diverts resources away from the projects that have the best return just because it's a crisis and somebody needs to do something, it will make us poorer and it will make the recovery slower.