Thread: Spotlight

Originally Posted by seqfisho

Yes take me back to the 50's or 60's where the Landy ruled the off road scene, the bush was open for everyone and Australia was too isolated to be influenced by the crap from America.

They really were the good old days

Originally Posted by incisor

Welcome to "Little America"

the land where the baby boomers sold their own kids futures for a stroll thru bunnings on a Sunday afternoon... and people still don't get it.....

Yep that says it all.

In the words of Jello Biafra, "The Stars and Stripes, of corruption."

Yes but remember that the majority has kept Howard and his Ideals in place for over 10years

because the majority have done OK financially, they will continue to vote for the party who appear to be the only viable (economic) option. To hell with first home buyers, future generations, those on the fringe socially or financially or outside metro areas or those who want, or even to just articulate an alternate vision.
X-Boxes, wide screen TV's, McMansions and Ford Territories rule....

Oh, and no viable oposition.
Watch them implode after Bonsai threw in his latest hand grenade on Nuclear power generation. That isn't about policy or vision, it's pure and simple politics.


Inc wrapped it up nicely.

Sorry folks, we are nothing like the USA.

If a store in the USA tried to pull a low act like Spotlight is pulling, Americans would boycott the shop out of business.

Will this happen here, not likely. The only way anything will happen is if the unions get the balls to stand-up to companies like Spotlight, because the general public in this country are now so self centred and selfish, all they will do is say to themselves “ Well that’s got to keep the prices down for me “

And another point, most USA companies have stopped down sizing now that they have learnt the true costs of what accountant driven ideas like this really cost. Only the pomes are still carrying on these ridiculous business practices.

Last but not least, if you want to blame anybody for the state of play in this country today, blame those who voted for little Johnny howard, and you can start with me.

I didn’t vote for Johnny and his crowd because I liked them, the fact is, I can’t stand them but the horrifying idea of the present labour party getting in, scares the living S**T out of me and I think if you ask most people why they voted for a scum bag like howard you’ll find they only did it to keep an even bigger pack of scum bags out of government.

This is my 2c worth.

Originally Posted by Maggot4x4

They really were the good old days

But it may be worth remembering some of the other aspects - like 67 cents in the dollar marginal tax rate, no medicare, suburban railway carriages almost a century old ( in Melbourne for example), petrol stations in Brisbane closed after 6pm (1pm Saturday, closed Sunday), only one all night petrol station between Brisbane and Sydney (I can remember running out of petrol in Guyra in the S2 in the middle of the night in winter and waiting until it started to get cold inside before braving the blizzard outside to tip the jerrican in), petrol in central Australia more than triple the price in the capital cities, no STD phones (and often waits of several hours to get through on long distance calls).

I could go on, but while present conditions certainly have gone backwards in some aspects (most of them because there are simply too many people, both in Australia and the rest of the world), I have trouble agreeing with you. The worst aspect of americanisation in my view is not economic policies but that we now have adopted the american practice of "if something goes wrong, someone else must be responsible - sue them!", which was alien to Australia forty years ago, or even twenty years ago.

John

Quote :that's not true of small business, which is the backbone of this country. Most work there ar$es off for a slightly better lifestyle (sometimes), yet trade out all conditions an average worker gets for stuff all security.

I am not for a minute saying business owners do not work hard, but the majority have a damn site better income than their employees, more medium to large businesses. Although most small business do allright if run properly.
It does annoy me when you see business man x in the media whinging about employee wages, then he gets into his Lexus, drives to his waterfront home in Port Bouveard, Gets on his 50ft cruiser and goes fishing, then to the Marina for a restraunt lunch, down to the holiday home in Dunsborough and a weekend at the winerie's of Margaret River, before the holiday to Europe. Many med-large busines owners live a life like this and quite a few small business owners I know lead a similar life but to a lesser extent. Oh so do our union bosses.
If I was a business owner I would pay the best salary I could to keep good workers, while still maintaining a healthy profit/living. A good dedicated workforce will help increase profits.