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Originally Posted by gordon
I just think that every one of us Australians is screwed. Kevin07 is the worse PM Australia has ever had. Kevin Rudd has screwed Australia soo much that we are back in the stoneage - Australia is not moving forward in any means, because there is no new Technologies for this so called global warming (the same old poo) - Thanks to Kevin07, Australia does have 23,000+ over stayed overseas people living here - Crime has gone up - taxes have gone up - people are getting poorier and the rich is getting richier - And the migrants in australia, those people get FREE Higher education, those people pay less-no taxes, those people get MORE payment and a better lifestyle to work and live here *All Thanks To Kevin Rudd. Australians should of voted for Pauline Hanson.
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I don't mean to hate on you mate, but I personally think what you're saying is BS. The Rudd govt. has been in office for 10 months. I don't know why you've got such a bee in your bonnet about K-Rudd but you are a little misguided if you think the country has gone to hell in 10 months. The Rudd govt. proposed new broadband networks for Aust., including the country areas sorely lacking access to try and stay in touch with emerging IT demands. They've proposed solar pannels for households. As far as skills go, they've invested in skills training to address the skills shortages in Australia.
Now, about this 'overseas people' living here - you may think Australians should have voted for Pauline Hanson, and no doubt you loved J-How - but the Rudd govt. dismantled two detention centres that were deemed to be inhumane conditions for refugees to be held in. Many of those who come to study here do not receive free education - no idea where you got that from - they are actually up-front fee-paying students, which universities LOVE because it's money in the bank, as opposed to HECS paying Australian students. Many Universities openly attract these 'overseas people' and expand departments and courses to cater for larger numbers, such as business schools. If you've got a problem with that, you've actually got a problem with the marketisation of education, which is a neo-liberal artefact of services being run to maximise profits.
Not only that, but the serious skills shortages have actually resulted in many businesses not being able to emply enough people to continue to run their business in line with their profit model - they are BEGGING for 'overseas people' to come and work for them so they can try and keep up with production. Realistically, this probably won't continue as unemployment rises in the economy due to the large economic downturn happening now, and about to come HARD at us. We run a 70% service economy mate (didn't happen in the last 10 months, I assure you, been happening over 30 years)
and it's obvious that if credit shrinks, consumption falls, people buy less, they go out less, demand for services drop, industries cut back jobs and unemployment rises. It a problem in the REAL economy at that point.
If you're refering to the credit crisis - the 'Kevin07' hardly started that mate. Dude's only been PM for 10 months - that started back in earnest in 2001 after 9/11 when the Fed eased interest rates, but actually probably started in the 80s and was ramped up in the 90s to fight the US recession - they just never let it stop. The Rudd govt. new tough times were coming and generated a significant budget surplus that they can invest in future Australian industry if need be. They got rid of work choices mate so your boss can't just say 'off you go mate, you no longer work here', or 'you've got to sign this agreement that says you get paid no more than THIS and get NO benefits'. Labour looks out for the people. Liberal looks out for business and investment, and hopes that if they do well, the little guy will see a piece of the action somewhere down the line. In good times (like the last 8 years where there was massive credit expansion - read: fake money), it actually works to an extent and our unemployment came right down, but you can hardly give J-How credit for a massive global debt bubble and a domestic mining boom because we've got natural resources under the ground. That's why there were rate rises. They couldn't do a damn thing about it, think of the inflation associated with such a credit expansion. Why do you think it's gone up to 5% now. It's come home to roost in the real economy and you're paying more for bread and milk.
Anyway, that's enough. Like I said, I don't mean to hate on you or anything but I just think what you wrote was a bit ******.