Verbatim – This budget has brought the worse combination of misery: economic slowdown, rising unemployment and continued loss of purchasing power – i.e. more misery, less employment, less real incomes.

“This budget has brought the worse combination of misery: economic slowdown, rising unemployment and continued loss of purchasing power – i.e. more misery, less employment, less real incomes. No wonder we are the 9th most pessimistic nation in the world (according to Gallup in 2011) and 86% of our youth find no future in the economy and prefer to emigrate. That is the state of the economic wreckage. Has there been growth for the greater good? Rather it has been a weak growth, not for the good, but for the worst. Let’s call it a flop, a prize winning Mr Calamity Flop”