by TroyGFC » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:40 am
by MW » Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:47 pm
by Sojourner » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:19 pm
by PhilG » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:26 pm
by Wedgie » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:29 pm
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
by PhilG » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:34 pm
by Wedgie » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:37 pm
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
by PhilG » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:39 pm
by Wedgie » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:49 pm
PhilG wrote:Wedgie wrote:protectionism = communism
No it's socialism, not communism. And anyway, what else can we do when the US are behaving (to use your example) like commies?
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
by Ian » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:13 pm
by Wedgie » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:19 pm
Ian wrote:Even some of the developing countries have tarriffs. Wedgie, the only way we can compete with them, is if we all were willing to live with the same conditions as the "slaves" do, live in shacks with little or none of the comforts that we have become acustomed to, with no rights in the workplace (although little Johnny's doing his beat for that one already), to blame wages is bullshit, relatively, our wages were better in the 80's, if we want quality products, built in Australia, by Australians, we need tarriffs to compete with the cheap (and often nasty) imports.
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
by Ian » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:32 pm
by PhilG » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:36 am
by Psyber » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:51 am
TroyGFC wrote:Good on ya Little Johnny- free trade agreement with China....Lawn mower maker to slash 65 jobs...
by Psyber » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:52 am
Ian wrote:Some of the cheaper, and most of the more expensive import electrical products and power tools etc. are as good, if not better than locally made (if it's even still being made here) products, but there is also a lot that seems to have an inbuilt timer set to self destruct just after the warranty runs out.
by PhilG » Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:25 pm
by Rik E Boy » Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:32 pm
PhilG wrote:Psyber wrote:Actually it was the Hawke/Keating government that started the pattern of exporting manufacturing industry by slashing tariff barriers. It was not going to matter because we were going to become "The Clever Country".![]()
Erm, you'll find that started with Whitlam - not Hawke/Keating, Psyber. What added to the issue was the floating of the dollar - which WAS Hawke/Keating. And that needed to happen because our dollar was way overvalued at the time.
More importantly, what has Howard done about it?
I rest my case!
by PhilG » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:31 am
by Psyber » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:26 pm
PhilG wrote:Psyber wrote:Actually it was the Hawke/Keating government that started the pattern of exporting manufacturing industry by slashing tariff barriers. It was not going to matter because we were going to become "The Clever Country".![]()
Erm, you'll find that started with Whitlam - not Hawke/Keating, Psyber. What added to the issue was the floating of the dollar - which WAS Hawke/Keating. And that needed to happen because our dollar was way overvalued at the time.
More importantly, what has Howard done about it?
I rest my case!
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