Going backwards with National

• Marty G
• 14 years ago
• Categories: corruption, crime, human rights, jobs, national, wages
• Tags: sovereign debt

It takes a lot to screw up a great country like New Zealand. It can’t be done overnight. But if you’re really negligent, anti-worker, and focused on hand outs to the rich, you can start to make things worse pretty quickly. Let’s look at the key measures of National’s performance, according to their own criteria:

• Crime up 1.4% per capita under National
• Real median household income down 5%
• GDP per capita down 2%
• 77,000 more jobless Kiwis
• Government debt up  $14.5 billion
• Gender Equality Index down from 78.6 to 78.1
• Corruption Index down from 9.4 to 9.3
• Govt borrowing so far for tax cuts $1.5 billion