Robert Reich on why austerity and tax cuts for the rich are bad economics.

This talk by Robert Reich, courtesy of Social Journal Europe, demonstrates the fallacies that underpin the economic policies entrenched in the National Party and their fellow conservative poltical allies.
It makes rivetting viewing and provides even more reasons why NZ needs to be looking at more socially responsible and responsive policies.
http://www.socialeurope.eu/2015/03/the-3-biggest-economic-myths/

What the promised Golden trickle down really means

These cartoons demonstrate what happens if we continue to believe that the neo-liberal tax cuts for the rich, so loved by English, Key and Joyce, continue to be practiced.

The caption can be easily: "Flying Key-Air to Hawaii."

 The effects of the "austerity economics" of the National Party on the working peoples of the country.

This may read US jobs but it quite easily applies to NZ.