Originally Posted by
elZorro
I think you've gone temporarily mad, FP. When Labour were in for three terms recently (not an aberration), the pie was grown for all, old govt debts paid off, farmers and commercial property owners of scale each made millions in capital gains (on paper), unemployment down at 3.7% for a while, GDP/capita up, strong budget surpluses. A record number of SMEs were started, and then the GFC and a National Govt turned up. The stats show the economy has mostly been going backwards since, or at best is starting to get back to where we were already at, in 2008. Happy to be proved wrong on this, but I bet you won't try.