工党财经事务发言人大卫·帕克(David Parker) 指出总理 约翰基以辱骂来逃避反对党对于政府如何促进经济发展的提问。关于如何解决经济的缓慢增长，出口表现不佳和严重的海外负债，约翰基没有计划。
要提高收入，经济需要现代化并出口高价值产品。
现在的工资实在太低，而且海外负债急剧增加。这些问题都不是开玩笑的。
约翰基应该承认问题的存在并就如何解决这些问题展开讨论。
反之，他只会假装问题不存在，因为他根本没有解决问题的远见和心胸。约翰基 拒绝承认政府在能否負擔得起养老金上存在问题，现在他解决根本性经济问题的计划就是无视问题并希望它们会自己消失。
令人失望的是，总理还在和过去做斗争。相反，他应该讨论未来如何去创造新西兰急需的出口、就业、储蓄和收入的增长。(霍建强议员办公室 供稿)
David
PARKER
Finance Spokesperson
12 July 2012
MEDIA STATEMENT
Economy’s problems are no joke
Abuse from the Prime Minister is no substitute for a plan to deal with the economy’s slow growth, poor export performance and serious overseas liabilities, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Parker.
“It’s disappointing that the Prime Minister resorted to name-calling in response to my speech yesterday about how to boost the New Zealand economy.
“The economy needs modernising to lift incomes, and export higher value products.
“Our wages are too low and our overseas liabilities are soaring. Those issues are no joke.
“John Key should concede those issues, and debate what to do about them.
“Instead he is reduced to pretending the problems don’t exist because he doesn’t have a vision for overcoming them. Just as Mr Key refuses to admit there is a problem with the affordability of superannuation, his plan for dealing with fundamental economic problems is to ignore them and hope they go away.
“It’s disappointing the Prime Minister is still fighting the battles of the past. Instead he should be debating where we need to go in the future to create the exports, jobs, savings and incomes New Zealand badly needs,” says David Parker.
