That's because you aren't woke enough Dunster.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
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That's because you aren't woke enough Dunster.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
You slippin? you said you wanted russia to nukem so i think refering to Russia is warranted. Its cool to blame the US for everything and they do have alot to answer dgmw but the middle east is the worlds cvnt pit right now. Africa (pick a kuntry) not so far behind.Quote:
Originally Posted by parksey
Q. what do you think of returned soldiers?
only because of the no wanking thing. i don't hate the us for its interventionism.Quote:
Originally Posted by hawk
as for what i'd do, plague. i'm hardly an expert in warfare and don't know all the avenues available to him. obviously something had to be done, just as it has for years now. to me it seemed hamfisted, but maybe that's just because of my perception of him.
The middle east / Africa things been going on in one form or another for over a 1000 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by hawk
Returned soldiers ? Pick a war.
WW1 were conscripted - no choice in the matter
WW2 fought a genuine threat,
Korea - debateable. - but given the situation and all someone had to help them - much like we were helped ten years earlier
Vietnam - Access to cheap home loans was the main carrot dangled to the Aussie soldiers - many of whom really didn't know what they were getting into. Soldiers can't be blamed for lying governments / Corporations
Iraq - Sometimes you have to back your mates even when you know they are wrong.
Dgmw I hate wars but I'd hate to think where we would be today if a few hundred thousand yanks didn't risk / lose their lives restoring order in the Pacific 70 odd years ago.
We were well within the cross hairs of the Japanese and without the Yanks we would have been wiped out pretty quickly.
Me too.
Is their a correlation between age, young/old peoples feelings/thoughts about war and returned diggers? Do you need to be over 30 to properly gauge what is best for world combat politics? Yeah the Yanks are annoying and war chasers but i still wonder why they cop worse abuse than the dictators in many countries killing anyone at will. cool factor for mine.
Did the youth revolution undeservedly stick it to the Viet vets? I probs would have join in the protests at 18 but not at 30.
ICBF doing a study past 5 people.
The People's Champ Hinchy telling it how it is
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-1...-right/8433498
The article is garbage. It assumes the government has a budget constraint which determines its fiscal ability to pay pensions. There is no financial constraint on governments to pay pensions. None what so ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
Hang on. A dream home is owning something grand or in a top spot. home ownership shouldnt be a dream or a right. Hard work and toil should gain a home if wanted.
If interest rates go up housing will become more affordable at least from the purchase price perspective. Clamping down on foriegn ownership would help too.
It's hard but a lot of people don't realise that they need to go without a few perks to make it a reality.Quote:
Originally Posted by hawk
Nothing wrong with starting small - a house is a house. It's for providing shelter - it's not about status or prestige.
There is no significant relationship between interest rates and investment. The relationship between income and investment is much stronger / predictable.
As long as incomes are rising so to will housing prices.
The issue is that not everyone's incomes are rising.
Agree about the Foreign ownership - it's out of control.
Hey Dunster if you want a perfect real world example of labor prices falling behind cost of living come to Hong Kong.
Min wage = $5.60 hr
Cheapest (new) apartment we could find was about $400k and that was about a 45min train ride from the main drag. Which for a place the size of HK would be like commuting from Burke to work in Sydney.
The govt introduced an 'affordable housing' scheme to give locals first shot at those apartments and 79,000 applications were made for the 2,000 units offered.
Public transport and food/beer is dirt cheap.
The economy is set up so you can have the basics (rent/food/transport). But the cashed up Chinese flooding in from the mainland have decided that you can have nothing more.
It's quite amazing to see the disparity in 'classes'.
And everyone just shrugging their shoulders about trying to make it better.
just follow my HK tips and you'll be rich plagueos
errr, happy Jesus death day. You all love it
It's an easy fix. Just give tax cuts to the cashed up Chinese coming in and take away penalty rates from the poorest workers. At least that's what Malcolm Turnbull would do.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Jokes aside - yes HK has some problems - they have fora long time. Not a lot of land for six million people which makes things difficult enough due to excess demand. Then like you said you add in cashed up Chinese and it's even worse.
I have worked with a few Chinese academics over the years and their stories about China and HK are horrifying.
Imagine just finishing your Phd at 22 years of age and getting a knock at the door from armed officers to take you to your new government assignment.
The assignment was that the government put your academic career on hold and made you work on a farm for 12 years.
Why ? Because they can and needed to make examples for the greater public that no matter how hard you work or how intelligent you are you the government controls your life.
In 1997 after 12 years my friend was released. He made a dash to HK - spent about 6 months there and said it was pretty much going the same way so he came to Australia with practically nothing and started a new life.
He's still here working and you wouldn't meet a nicer person. Just don't call him Chinese. He's an Australian and absolutely hates China and everything about it.
Looks like what he feared about HK is well and truly in motion.
Plague Jnr wasn't allowed to go to Happy Valley so pulled the pin. Terrible example set by the HK govt not letting the kiddies get a taste for the track.Quote:
Originally Posted by q-money
No wonder the world is going to Hell.
currently on da front lines of history here in Seoul, is your mate Big Don gonna pull the trigger tomorrow? My flight's at 8pm Saturday :rof:
I'd have no problems with Big Don levelling Korea. Khunt of a country North or South. I used to deal with Koreans on a daily basis at work and you couldn't find a more corrupt / morally bankrupt group of people if you tried.Quote:
Originally Posted by q-money
I'm currently at war with LG over my OLED TV failing after 10 months - and while I'm guaranteed to win legal proceedings someone with less time and money than I have would pretty much be screwed and left with $8000 of TV with a vertical line on the screen.
I'm heading to Japan now to help hold the fort.Quote:
Originally Posted by q-money
With Trump on our side how could things go wrong.
Covfefe to you all this evening.