Re: What's happened to Australia?

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From: BruceS
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:02

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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:40:10 +1000, Government Shill #2 wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:46:23 +1000, "Sekula" <bfg@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Went to buy a couch from Plush, was told there'd be a 3 mths waiting
>>period for it to be made in China! Bought an entertainment unit from
>>Freedom, 2 months waiting, WTF??
>>If I could buy online, I'd have got it sooner from China AND cut out the
>>middle man. Is there a law to stop retailers selling items they dont
>>actually STOCK in this country or what?
> 
> Don't blame the retailers. Blame the unions. They sold all of the
> Australian jobs to overseas countries.

Hey, they did the same thing here in the U.S.!  I've been saying for 
years, what we *really* need to export (if we want to fix our trade 
imbalance) is unions.  Let's see how China likes a bit of socialist 
egalitarianism.

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From: BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What's happened to Australia?
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