Felippe Rodrigues and Kate Newton05:00, May 31 2021 ELLA BATES-HERMANS/STUFF How does the government Budget work and what does that mean for you? We analysed 25 years of Budget speeches to reveal the ideas and words that have preoccupied governments, the biggest talkers - and how Kiwi political rhetoric compares to Donald Trump. Less than a minute into his speech delivering this year’s Budget, Finance Minister Grant Robertson harked back to an infamous predecessor: Ruth Richardson’s ‘Mother of All Budgets’, which cemented benefit cuts, introduced interest on student loans and marked the union-busting Employment Contracts Act. The 2021 Budget sought to undo “some of the damage done all those decades ago”, Robertson said. He went on to talk of the Government’s “quest”, “righting the wrong[s]” and restoring “dignity and hope”.