Job Summit results

Govt's initiatives saved: 117 jobs (9 day fortnight)
Govt's direct actions lost: 250 jobs (IRD)

Would be if it wasn't real people losing real jobs.

any chance you can add the other govt depts that have had or about to have layoffs

them future tax cuts may be screwed as well, which might upset them that voted national only cause of the tax cuts

saying that the recession/depression still seems like it hasn't hit here like other countries.... yet

This government has no ideas. For the last six months the media has swallowed the bullshit spin. But now, its tax cuts have been exposed as unaffordable, which despite the braying of usual suspects, they always were.

National's promises "not to cut the civil service" are being exposed as a hollow lie.

"That nice man" Mr. Key is failing to grasp has job. His government is disintergrating into ministerial feifdoms. Bill English weekly humiliates his "leader" by cancelling his ideas. Rodney's razor gang is out of control. John Key clearly had no idea his minster of defence was going to make a major defence announcement the same day as he carelessly implied we would send troops to Fiji. Tony Ryall pays him no attention. Richard Worth's questionable behaviour was feebly "dealt" with.

What happens when we get our own compassionate conservative, or own George W. Bush? Exactly what happened in the US under the Bush/Cheney mal-administration. You get directionless ministerial feifdoms and the vaccuum of power being captured by lobby groups. Watch Oliver Driver here join the dots whilst Key flounders in a painful display of laziness in preparation:



And think about the role of big tabacco and the corruption already appearing in this government.

National is failing to come up with ANY ideas to deal with the recession. What policy they have come up with to manage the impact of the recession has failed already. The nine-day fortnight, a cycleway the length of New Zealand, and a $2 billion equity fund from the banks to keep businesses running. Two of these ideas have collapsed before they even began - the cycleway (a joke to begin with) will not be funded and has turned into a collection of small local tracks, while the $2 billion equity fund has collapsed amid squabbling between the banks and Treasury. Meanwhile, the much-vaunted nine-day fortnight has saved all of 123 jobs in five companies.

National is a bunch of tired 1990's retreads and no hopers, with failed ideas fronted by a by our very own George W. Bush..