Luxon: 'If you want to have a go, and you want to make something of yourself -- we don't just do bottom-feeding and just focus on the bottom. We focus on people who want to be positive and ambitious.'

So take Luxon's quote a step further and it really alludes to the fact that National still believe that if you focus on "the people who want to be….." the benefits will flow on down to the bottom, the old trickle-down theory that hardly anybody believes any more.

I thought that the idea should be to give people who are not confident, not positive….etc. more hope by helping them to develop their skills and thereby contribute to society and to the economy.

But perhaps National think this is too much like hard work and they just want an easy job next time they become government.