incomes New Zealanders earn. That is a fundamental objective of our plan to build a stronger economy." -- John Key, 8 February 2011 " The driving goal of my Government is to build a more competitive and internationally-focused economy with less debt, more jobs and higher incomes. " -- John Key, 21 December 2011 By now, more and more New Zealanders are waking up to one simple reality; National cannot lead this country to prosperity or anything remotely resembling it. Their policies for growth seem predicated on, cutting wages asset sales bullying and demonising beneficiaries lanning dangerous and unsound deep-sea drilling of the East Coast of the Nth Island mining in conservation lands It is the height of desperation and bloody-mindedness that National's major policy of job-creation relies on cutting wages as some kind of "bribe" for employers. It is the depth of stupidity that will see young people on $10.80 displacing older workers, as employers cut costs in order to maximise their profits -- especially as consumer spending is dropping. (See: Electronic card spending drops in September ) It is this sense of sheer miserly selfishness that resulted in, tax cuts in 2009 and 2010 which benefitted the richest in this country All Key's policies work exactly as intended -- to turn us into a low wage third world economy with no sovereignty. I suspect Labour don't know what to do because they are basically singing from the same neo-liberal songbook -- some of the songs they choose might