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Article #249Re: What's happened to Australia?
From: Government Shill #2
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:26
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:26
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:02:02 +0000 (UTC), BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote: >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. Good idea. You can't buy anything Australian in the shops anymore, because (virtually) nothing is made here anymore. Shill #2 -- I thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I was mistaken.
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X-Google-Thread: 3ac807a62f,5e92269a7d8e9170 X-Google-Attributes: gid3ac807a62f,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin1!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!exi-transit.telstra.net!exi-in1.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!61.9.128.156.MISMATCH!viwinnwcl01.internal.bigpond.com!viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail From: Government Shill #2 <gov.shill@gmail.com> Newsgroups: aus.consumers,aus.legal,aus.tv Subject: Re: What's happened to Australia? Organization: "The" government Message-ID: <kqb707dr0tht7urv9ip7gm6sjg8vsegjgt@4ax.com> References: <4e02b709$0$13395$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <idr5071t3kp2mkfvmlt4ejbtvtfv9djvso@4ax.com> <itvkha$tgr$1@speranza.aioe.org> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:26:33 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 121.219.14.57 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com 1308864392 121.219.14.57 (Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:26:32 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:26:32 EST