We've all seen the statistics: 43,000 jobs lost so far, 37,000 in April alone—a thousand a week. This year's Budget had the opportunity to chart a great long-term recovery plan, but unfortunately all we've seen is a "borrow and hope Budget" with a $20 billion slush fund with absolutely no detail. Actually, I need to correct myself there; I apologise. There is detail; it's just not detail that the finance Minister is going to share with the rest of New Zealand. Instead, he's preferring to announce $200 million worth of spending every day like some kind of pre-election Advent calendar—except, instead of a delicious chocolate treat, you get a $200 million surprise which may or may not be informed by Labour Party polling. Remember last year when Minister Robertson couldn't get his hands on a capital gains tax? Remember that? So he snuck round the other side to try and get hold of the nation's credit card to put his expensive election promises on tick. Well, this year we've handed our credit card over to him; it's got a $20 billion limit. We've got no idea what he's spending anything on until we get the statement in the mail. It's an eye-watering amount of Kiwis' money that is completely unaccounted for that will be spent in the lead-up to an election.