Sir lastnail wrote on Nov 18^th, 2014 at 9:56am:

Lost Nail wrong again


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http://www.thelocal.de/20140129/foreign-investment-floods-into-germany

Has anyone been able to find any evidence that our FTA agreement with the US, which has been in place for a while now, has helped our GDP at all ?

ian wrote on Nov 18^th, 2014 at 11:03am:


Jones isn't an 'economic' anything...he's just an idiot talk radio host

ian wrote on Nov 18^th, 2014 at 11:02am:


but do you see them selling off their key industries and employing cheap chinese labour ?

The Federal LNP are selling the farm & our resources & jobs to the Chinese..... by allowing:-

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The place is loaded with foreign 457 visa workers now... pretty soon we'll all be sitting on our arses living off royalties ey? Sitting back whilst foreign labour does all the work for us... sooooo smart we are 


Then on a side issue the QLD LNP are selling QLD resources & jobs to India : -

whilst the price of coal plummets & mines close & jobs are lost the Campbell Souphead LNP Govt using $1.16 billion of taxpayers money to fund & buy a stake in the Adani Coal & rail project in central QLD ......

right at a time when they are selling off by proxy(99yr leases) Govt assets of ports, electricty supply & infrastructure etc. ...... bloody hypocrites.

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No doubt if the federal govt. is allowing Chinese labour on all projects over $150 million the Indians will have the same right to bring in most of their own labour for a project worth an est. $16.5 billion

Create jobs? I don't think so ... thousands of Australians are losing & are yet to lose their jobs in the iron ore & coal downturn .... & any increase with these projects is going to be filled by foreigners

being paid gawd knows what sort of crap slave rates.

These bastards are making the previous much maligned Labor Govt.that they whinged & whined so much about economic mismanagement, look like economic geniuses.

[quote author=oioiozzy link=1416183169/24#24 date=1416397559]It only dawned on me the other day, certain numbers and the power of those numbers.

Australia's population is what ? 23 ~ 24 million,
let's round it up to 25 million

China eclipses, they in the 1.3 billion range

BILLION Vs MILLION

Took me a while to let that sink in from another perspective, and that is, the BILLION don't give a dam rats razoo of "working class man", or "working class hero" or western thinking, or, "it's Friday, just got paid and off the the pub"

They now own the pub ?

See what I'm saying here ?

The weight of BILLIONS of people know one thing and one thing only, survive = the need to eat.

Australia had it good, no job and you really don't go hungry if ya manage ya dole money right, truly. Take out the cigs and beer money and one can just survive by doing nothing for 2 weeks, you will eat, even if it's the street workers free pie night.

But in BILLION PEOPLE LAND, it gets to a critical mass where they either kill each other off, or use their brains and conquer or perish.

But I did see something else on TV.
Pollution in the form of smog.
They might have "stolen" our manufacturing etc etc, but the smog, if they smog themselves too much, they won't be able to breath or remain healthy to do what we used to do.

Will this them make BILLION POPULATION Team to MILLION ?

Will we, ( our future generations -  plural ) get to a point they got to and the need to survive will steal their jobs back, what once what Australia's ?

When Australia's population reaches 30 MILLION,  it may be interesting times, cos 30 MILLION will need to eat/survive and where is the dole money going to come from by that time.

I have done complaining, it's no use.
Aboot, or ANY elected PM no matter what party, is going to get the Silver foreign interests "$carrot$ shoved right up where it don't fit sideways, and more.

Unless, unless a true statesman fronts up and send it back and it won't be a boomerang.

It's going to take time, and some suffering before next generation Aussie wakes up.


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Well said!

Sir lastnail wrote on Nov 18^th, 2014 at 12:27pm:
This has to be the most amazing part of all.  Its often tragic to watch how we all get so filled with pride when a pollie tells us, "you're so lucky, you live in a democracy" and we dutifully repeat with a tear in our eye, "yeah we're so lucky, we live in a democracy" and yet something that so crucially impacts on our lives like the FTA is kept secret from us; we're not allowed to know until after the deal is done. But!!! A privileged sector of the aust community has not only known but planned and negotiated it for their benefit and hang the rest us. And who is this privileged sector of the community that has run this show for themselves.  The same privileged elite who own this wonderful democratic government of ours.  When are we going to wake up and fight these bast@rds instead of incessantly complaining and doing nothing about it.      

ImSpartacus2 wrote on Nov 20^th, 2014 at 8:14am:



You are quite welcome to join one of the many protest groups that get out on the street. How about the next March Australia protest? If you don't have one in your area you could even start one. We are fighting these b@stards.