Iceman, can you provide details of the public sector jobs that were surplus, details on the improved public service that resulted from the culls, and more importantly the names of the people that Ms Clark improperly installed into office. Because I bet you can't. Helen Clark was too politically savvy to be that reckless. That sort of behaviour is more like a National trait.
And I bet that if you added up the minuscule savings that National might have achieved in their wages bill, and then added back in debacles like Novopay, more dole payments, reduced tax takes, etc, there would be no savings. Just a lot of unhappy people looking for jobs and the rest of us getting a poorer public service outcome.
National's mantra I heard on the radio today: Rural police stations have only one on duty after National raids staff for South Auckland, but there will be more on the front line as a result of new iPods and iPads rollout. Magical.
Contact Energy to drop 100 staff. Flat power consumption for the first time in decades, because National stands by and watches manufacturing and employment options decay in NZ.