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On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:26:33 +1000, Government Shill #2 wrote:

> 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.

We've long since changed from being a producing, exporting nation to an 
importer, with a "service" economy.  I believe this is a dead end; if you 
don't produce nearly as much for export as you import, you're headed for 
disaster.  If (as here) you have quit making things, then when the 
currency is devalued and you can't import what you need, you can't get it 
from in-country either.  The last time I checked, the U.S. was even a net 
importer of *food*!
"The farms of Ohio had been replaced by shopping malls" (Pretenders)