In some ways the extent of the turn around since December just proves that.
Westpac chief economist Dominick Stephen's has already described the forecasts as a mirage. He also believes Treasury is overly optimistic in its outlook.
Meanwhile the Government is talking up "massive" new spending on health and education.
There's $1.44 billion more in education, including $882.5m for classrooms and nine new schools and $2.2 billion more in health, including $1.6 billion for district health boards over 4 years.
But how generous is that really.
With the increased tax take and better than expected economic performance underpinned by historic levels of population more spending is needed just to balance the ledger.
The Government will argue that this spending outpaces the population growth, the opposition will argue it redresses years of under-spending.
Still, despite the lack of real surprises this is Bill English in top form. He's promised us boring and stable he's delivered.
Whether we see more of the same next year or whether the Finance Minister's colleagues dive in for an election year lolly scramble may depend on how the polling goes.
For now we've got no choice but to shut up an eat our greens.