Thread: Stimulus Payment FAQ

Originally Posted by landy63

Pity we couldn't do something useful like build a couple of pipe lines from the North to the dry South and fill the Murray .

Excellent Idea ...
Mines for the steel
Steel manufacture for the pipe
Truckie's for the delivery
Surveyors for the path
Crews to work and lay pipe
Engineers for the design
Manufacturers for the infrastructure (pump stations)
Food manufactures to feed the crews
Country towns receive water = green growth = tourism = more jobs in the country
More earth for growing food = export = more jobs in the country

And all Australian workers & companies get a direct shot at the monies .... No china / booze / Imports / etc

The only problem that I can see is the possibilities of upsetting the ecosystem because with the water we can bring to the south plants and pest that do not exsist at the present time.
For sure have to be a way to avoid this problem among others that can affect the enviroment

Originally Posted by Chucaro

The only problem that I can see is the possibilities of upsetting the ecosystem because with the water we can bring to the south plants and pest that do not exsist at the present time.
For sure have to be a way to avoid this problem among others that can affect the enviroment

True .... But you can see the methodology on how it benefits & creates jobs which spreads the money in the right areas ... cause right now, everyone is looking up for the best deal on a plasma

That's right! Investing in infrastructure for the benefit of all, not crap for the individual!!!!

Matt.

instead of just handing out the cash, why dont they make people work for it. More precisely the poor bastards who have already lost their jobs?
Just my 2 cents

Even better, $950 for the year amounts to a tax cut for me of approximately $18.80 or something similar, add that to the extra $20 I'd have recieved if the last cash throw away was done this way, Id be nearly $40 better off a week now (as would every other working Aussie, that $40 would e spent every week. Multiply that by all us middle class workers, THERE'S SOME NICE STIMULATION, EVERY WEEK. Not just once a year to give our foriegn minister, captain catch phrase, Mr Rudd a good quater every so often to JUST keep us out of recession without really doing much else.
Now the rest of the 42 billion, infrastructure.

I have also been banging on about infastructure too. I am set to get a couple of k but would hand it back instantly for say a fast train from perth to melb to syd to brissy. Or anything else worth while cause then once the money is spent, we have a cool bit of kit we can use for a long time. It seems a lot of people are on the same page so perhaps K'Rudd should actually listen to the people.

Hmmmm... well here's what Steve Ballmer said about the GFC...

“We’re certainly in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime set of economic conditions. The perspective I would bring is not one of recession. Rather, the economy is resetting to lower level of business and consumer spending based largely on the reduced leverage in economy”.

IMHO that statement is one of the biggest contributions that man has made to the world. Anyway, the bottom line is that Australia and it's banks have not been model citizens, and we've done bad bad things and partied as hard or harder than most. Now we have nearly 2 trillion in private sector debt. And the banks have stopped making money ouch.....

So, as far as I can see the main value of this stimulation is that hopefully we'll learn that it is completely ineffective and we actually try and fix the actual problem (debt) but I doubt it will... Hopefully we might get out of it in 5 ... rather than 18 like Japan who handled things like it looks like we are intending to handle them.

Compared to the other debt we're about to incur the 50 bill will be the least of our problems.

Anyway, sorry if I've bummed anyone out