We need a Budget that backs New Zealanders. I urge the Government to implement our proposals. They will save businesses and jobs and inject the massive stimulus required into the economy. Instead, when New Zealanders look at today's Budget, they'll see some of the bleakest economic forecasts this country has seen in living memory, widespread unemployment, growing debt, a decade of deficits. It's easy to get lost in all of the big numbers today—the four-year projections of spending, the extra billions in debt, the debt-to-GDP ratio. We forget that each of those numbers—all of the numbers, in fact—represent a bigger challenge: the burden we place on New Zealanders and the responsibility we have to them. We forget that a decade of deficits and debt means fewer choices for our kids down the road. The obligation we as parliamentarians have is to make sure the next generation is better off than we are, that they have more choices, more opportunities, more ability to succeed in the world because we back them, not burden them with debt.