Inflation jumps to almost 6 %

[Wainuiguy]

Never said that however of the 100 billion spent in the last 4 years only a small fraction went to the wage and business subsidies. What has the rest produced?

Oh that's right - massive debt and spiraling inflation with virtually nothing tangible to show for it.

BtW your shiny new motorways in ChCh were built by National.  Like Transmission Gully was here in Wellington (finally though the project massively mismanaged by Labour) and the Cambridge bypass, the western Bay Link, the extension of the Waikato expressway.  All roads of National significance announced, planned, built or started under National. 

Labour seem to only manage the announcement part.

And now 4 plus years  on we have an announcement about the Auckland light rail that was already ment to have the first part completed by 2020.  Balloning from $7billion to $14.6 billion which will actually be $30 billion.

Well if we're going to be like that, those motorways have been planned for the last 30-40 years, didn't matter which political party was in at the time to 'announce'  and signed off on it, it just needed the right set of circumstances (earthquake) requiring a big spend up...

Yes many roads are planned but I the end it comes down to who actually funds them and builds them.  There were several new roads set to begin under National then scrapped under Labour and to be resurrected under the guise of shovel ready projects.  How many have seen a single shovel break ground?