Recklessly complacent Govt fails own test
13 May 2015
Recklessly complacent Govt fails own test
This
recklessly complacent Government has not only failed its own
surplus litmus test, it has squandered opportunities to
improve the lives of New Zealanders, Opposition Leader
Andrew Little says.
In a pre-election budget speech today, he described the broken surplus promise as “one of the biggest political deceptions of a lifetime”.
“This Government’s major election pledge was clear – they were the good economic managers who would reach surplus. Now they’ve abandoned that pledge.
“In the last 7 years, National hasn’t announced a single initiative that has tackled the long term problems in our economy to improve the lives of New Zealanders. They have been recklessly complacent.
“They haven’t tackled our overreliance on dairy and housing speculation and have done little to encourage innovation.
“They’ve done nothing to fix the issues that made our economy vulnerable in the first place.
“Instead of fixing the roof when the sun is shining John Key has taken credit for the sunny day.”
The questions every Kiwi must ask the Government are:
Why
haven’t we hit surplus?
Why are we still so reliant on
dairy?
Why are you still ignoring the housing
crisis?
Why are you still neglecting the
regions?
Where’s the plan to diversify our
economy?
“New Zealand needs to become a country where
we reward the risk takers, the innovators and the unafraid.
Where we celebrate growing wealth, and where everyone who
works for that success shares in the rewards.”
ends