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Talking Politics
- Thread starter Legends of 2017
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I've got two LG 55" Smart tv's purchased a couple of years apart. It helps keep the peace with the family.
The 2nd one was purchased about 2 years ago, it was more expensive that the one purchased about 2 years before that.
I could be wrong, i don't really follow the prices, but i reckon the costs of tv's has gone up.
I am trying to figure out why, when we have the Libs in government our economy is going so bad.
They dont look after the poor, the environment, the sick or those with a disability unless they have to.
So why are they f'ckin up the one thing they were supposed to be strong on? (along with protecting religious freedoms (of christians))
They dont look after the poor, the environment, the sick or those with a disability unless they have to.
So why are they f'ckin up the one thing they were supposed to be strong on? (along with protecting religious freedoms (of christians))
Though I do have hope their attitude to those not so rich will change now poor Barnaby is on struggle street.
He's a bit of a bull is our Barnaby he's had 2 kids with his new floosy. He must be really doing it hard, as it would appear he can't afford condoms
Yep he's a real bull...sh!tter.
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What indicators are you referring to? Unemployment and inflation seem to be a reasonable levels, and we have had record trading surpluses in recent months.
GDP growth is a concern, but aside from establishing a competitive tax/IR regime and then getting out of the way, I'm not sure what role a government has to play
The main concern for me in the economy is the lack of wages growth. Wages growth has slowed significantly in the last few years whilst inequality of income has increased. What that means is that wages growth is low and what growth there is is skewed to higher incomes.
The myth of the Libs as good economic managers is just that. They are economic illiterates and vandals.
Unemployment numbers are misleading. There is massive underemployment thanks to the casualisation of the workforce, while many people have simply given up and are therefore not counted.
Low inflation is a function of a stagnant economy. Our economy would be going backwards (recession) were it not for one thing: immigration.
Yeah, I love a bloke who can’t control himself and busts down doors out of anger and frustration.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
- Teddy Roosevelt.
People who have “given up” are still enumerated in the ABS Labour force statistics.
Wage growth has declined from around 4% to 2% in the past decade. Low, but still ahead of inflation.
One major change in the past 5 years is the sharp growth of the gig economy. I’m not sure how ‘legacy ‘ reporting deals with people on air tasker, Uber and other informal employment mechanisms.