These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !!

What the hell is going on here !! Why aren't we being productive anymore ? How do we expect to pay back our debts on the back of cafe lattes ? Nothing is being made here except bullshit ! A bullshit economy run by a real estate agent from point piper.

Is this what Morriscum means by prosperity and being the envy of the rest of the world :D LOL

Yeh sure you can do anything you want off the back of a credit card but sooner or later you have to pay interest !!

Bill Shorten's corrupt Commo unions have closed down manufacturing here in Australia with their insane wage demands that simply make the Australian company unable to compete with their overseas competitor and so the product is imported from China.

Bill Shorten's corrupt Commo unions are just parasites sucking the goodness out of Australia and forcing our manufacture over to China.

Bill Shorten's corrupt Commo unions don't give a damn about the workers any more as they are ONLY interested in trying to maintain the luxurious lifestyles they built up during the long gone Tariff Wall days when unions were KING.

Just look at how they reduced workers weekend penalty rates at MacDonalds and Cleanevent and Chiquito Mushrooms.

juliar wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 11:24am:

Bill Shorten's corrupt Commo unions have closed down manufacturing here in Australia with their insane wage demands that simply make the Australian company unable to compete with their overseas competitor and so the product is imported from China. Bill Shorten's corrupt Commo unions are just parasites sucking the goodness out of Australia and forcing our manufacture over to China. Bill Shorten's corrupt Commo unions don't give a damn about the workers any more as they are ONLY interested in trying to maintain the luxurious lifestyles they built up during the long gone Tariff Wall days when unions were KING. Just look at how they reduced workers weekend penalty rates at MacDonalds and Cleanevent and Chiquito Mushrooms.

You lot don't want to make anything. All you want to do is dig crap out of the ground and hand it over to the chinese and then buy the finished imported manufactured goods through Harvey Norman on the credit card. That's what your enviable fake service economy is all about !

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 11:10am:

These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !!

shopping centres are changing. In the future they'll be mostly meeting points, for dining and entertainment, they'll serve the service industry such as real estate, accountants, etc with very few 'retail' shops. Internet shopping has destroyed bricks and motor retail, or is in the process off.

If you want to sell tshirts or shoes why pay $2- 3k A WEEK to rent a space when you can rent a garage for $300 and sell online? Do you know how many tshirts or shoes you have to sell to pay the rent? then you need staff to stand there all day. It cannot compete with online

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 11:45am:

juliar wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:24am: Bill Shorten's corrupt Commo unions have closed down manufacturing here in Australia with their insane wage demands that simply make the Australian company unable to compete with their overseas competitor and so the product is imported from China. Bill Shorten's corrupt Commo unions are just parasites sucking the goodness out of Australia and forcing our manufacture over to China. Bill Shorten's corrupt Commo unions don't give a damn about the workers any more as they are ONLY interested in trying to maintain the luxurious lifestyles they built up during the long gone Tariff Wall days when unions were KING. Just look at how they reduced workers weekend penalty rates at MacDonalds and Cleanevent and Chiquito Mushrooms. You lot don't want to make anything. All you want to do is dig crap out of the ground and hand it over to the chinese and then buy the finished imported manufactured goods through Harvey Norman on the credit card. That's what your enviable fake service economy is all about !

Hang on: is this 2017?

The same friggin' arguments ..... the friggin' arctic is melting and we wonder why!

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John Smith wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 11:49am:

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! shopping centres are changing. In the future they'll be mostly meeting points, for dining and entertainment, they'll serve the service industry such as real estate, accountants, etc with very few 'retail' shops. Internet shopping has destroyed bricks and motor retail, or is in the process off. If you want to sell tshirts or shoes why pay $2- 3k A WEEK to rent a space when you can rent a garage for $300 and sell online? Do you know how many tshirts or shoes you have to sell to pay the rent? then you need staff to stand there all day. It cannot compete with online

jit INVENTORY MODELS STARTED WHEN! tHIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN COMING.... the chickens!


..the chickens are coming aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  :-[

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 11:10am:

These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !!

Yes, there are more coffee shops now (is this really a bad thing?) but I think you'll find that the number of real estate agents has not increased that much over the last 40 years or so.  It's just that their marketing is more "in your face" these days and you notice them every time you see one.  Back in the 1970s they operated out of small shops and the windows were full of framed black and white photographs with a bit of typed information - hardly eye catching.

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 11:10am:

These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! Why aren't we being productive anymore ? How do we expect to pay back our debts on the back of cafe lattes ? Nothing is being made here except bullshit ! A bullshit economy run by a real estate agent from point piper. Is this what Morriscum means by prosperity and being the envy of the rest of the world :D LOL Yeh sure you can do anything you want off the back of a credit card but sooner or later you have to pay interest !!

hear hear sir Nail,
we need heavy industry like Germany - not coffee shops.

The looney Greenie Train Wreck is back snoveling snovel all over the joint.

What a wonderful addition to the Lefty team.

juliar wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 1:16pm:

The looney Greenie Train Wreck is back snoveling snovel all over the joint. What a wonderful addition to the Lefty team.

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John Smith wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 11:49am:

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! shopping centres are changing. In the future they'll be mostly meeting points, for dining and entertainment, they'll serve the service industry such as real estate, accountants, etc with very few 'retail' shops. Internet shopping has destroyed bricks and motor retail, or is in the process off. If you want to sell tshirts or shoes why pay $2- 3k A WEEK to rent a space when you can rent a garage for $300 and sell online? Do you know how many tshirts or shoes you have to sell to pay the rent? then you need staff to stand there all day. It cannot compete with online

I don't believe you can run a prosperous service economy because if you could then we wouldn't be in so much debt !!

Perhaps there are some exceptions such as Singapore etc but this idea that countries like china have still to transition to a service economy that is parroted by the brains trust here is truly laughable. China has built a massive cashed up economy on the back of value adding and manufacturing so the last thing they want to do is to follow us and throw all of that away and replace it with coffee shops and lawn mowing rounds :(

Wolseley wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 12:47pm:

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! Yes, there are more coffee shops now (is this really a bad thing?) but I think you'll find that the number of real estate agents has not increased that much over the last 40 years or so.  It's just that their marketing is more "in your face" these days and you notice them every time you see one.  Back in the 1970s they operated out of small shops and the windows were full of framed black and white photographs with a bit of typed information - hardly eye catching.

Where I live there are 5 real estate agents in stones throw of each other and I am not exaggerating ! This is what the brains trust in canberra have created !! They have trashed the productive economy and replaced it with parasitic vermin who are experts in racking up debt and creating financial misery for little or no gain !! This is the service economy they keep banging on about that other countries should follow in our footsteps :(

Bobby. wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 12:57pm:

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! Why aren't we being productive anymore ? How do we expect to pay back our debts on the back of cafe lattes ? Nothing is being made here except bullshit ! A bullshit economy run by a real estate agent from point piper. Is this what Morriscum means by prosperity and being the envy of the rest of the world :D LOL Yeh sure you can do anything you want off the back of a credit card but sooner or later you have to pay interest !! hear hear sir Nail, we need heavy industry like Germany - not coffee shops.

If a service economy was the way to go then germany would have closed its factories long ago and replaced it with coffee shops and real estate agents !! They are not that stupid of course ;)

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 3:20pm:

John Smith wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:49am: Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! shopping centres are changing. In the future they'll be mostly meeting points, for dining and entertainment, they'll serve the service industry such as real estate, accountants, etc with very few 'retail' shops. Internet shopping has destroyed bricks and motor retail, or is in the process off. If you want to sell tshirts or shoes why pay $2- 3k A WEEK to rent a space when you can rent a garage for $300 and sell online? Do you know how many tshirts or shoes you have to sell to pay the rent? then you need staff to stand there all day. It cannot compete with online I don't believe you can run a prosperous service economy because if you could then we wouldn't be in so much debt !! Perhaps there are some exceptions such as Singapore etc but this idea that countries like china have still to transition to a service economy that is parroted by the brains trust here is truly laughable. China has built a massive cashed up economy on the back of value adding and manufacturing so the last thing they want to do is to follow us and throw all of that away and replace it with coffee shops and lawn mowing rounds :(

I don't care what you believe about a service economy, I was talking about shopping centres. You do realise that the economy extends beyond shopping centres, right?

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 3:25pm:

Where I live there are 5 real estate agents in stones throw of each other and I am not exaggerating

similar businesses often congregate around each other. It's good for business.

Bobby. wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 12:57pm:

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! Why aren't we being productive anymore ? How do we expect to pay back our debts on the back of cafe lattes ? Nothing is being made here except bullshit ! A bullshit economy run by a real estate agent from point piper. Is this what Morriscum means by prosperity and being the envy of the rest of the world :D LOL Yeh sure you can do anything you want off the back of a credit card but sooner or later you have to pay interest !! hear hear sir Nail, we need heavy industry like Germany - not coffee shops.

Germany - a country that we should be aspiring to match. Not the third world like the clowns on here seem to want.

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 3:26pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 12:57pm: Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! Why aren't we being productive anymore ? How do we expect to pay back our debts on the back of cafe lattes ? Nothing is being made here except bullshit ! A bullshit economy run by a real estate agent from point piper. Is this what Morriscum means by prosperity and being the envy of the rest of the world :D LOL Yeh sure you can do anything you want off the back of a credit card but sooner or later you have to pay interest !! hear hear sir Nail, we need heavy industry like Germany - not coffee shops. If a service economy was the way to go then germany would have closed its factories long ago and replaced it with coffee shops and real estate agents !! They are not that stupid of course ;)

Hi sir Nail,
we're heading for a recession the way that Malcolm is "leading" us.

John Smith wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 4:25pm:

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 3:20pm: John Smith wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:49am: Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! shopping centres are changing. In the future they'll be mostly meeting points, for dining and entertainment, they'll serve the service industry such as real estate, accountants, etc with very few 'retail' shops. Internet shopping has destroyed bricks and motor retail, or is in the process off. If you want to sell tshirts or shoes why pay $2- 3k A WEEK to rent a space when you can rent a garage for $300 and sell online? Do you know how many tshirts or shoes you have to sell to pay the rent? then you need staff to stand there all day. It cannot compete with online I don't believe you can run a prosperous service economy because if you could then we wouldn't be in so much debt !! Perhaps there are some exceptions such as Singapore etc but this idea that countries like china have still to transition to a service economy that is parroted by the brains trust here is truly laughable. China has built a massive cashed up economy on the back of value adding and manufacturing so the last thing they want to do is to follow us and throw all of that away and replace it with coffee shops and lawn mowing rounds :( I don't care what you believe about a service economy, I was talking about shopping centres. You do realise that the economy extends beyond shopping centres, right?

They are in abundance in the Westfield shopping malls as well. Open your eyes. This is what happens when you de-industrialize a nation. It literally goes to sleep :(

Bobby. wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 6:42pm:

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 3:26pm: Bobby. wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 12:57pm: Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! Why aren't we being productive anymore ? How do we expect to pay back our debts on the back of cafe lattes ? Nothing is being made here except bullshit ! A bullshit economy run by a real estate agent from point piper. Is this what Morriscum means by prosperity and being the envy of the rest of the world :D LOL Yeh sure you can do anything you want off the back of a credit card but sooner or later you have to pay interest !! hear hear sir Nail, we need heavy industry like Germany - not coffee shops. If a service economy was the way to go then germany would have closed its factories long ago and replaced it with coffee shops and real estate agents !! They are not that stupid of course ;) Hi sir Nail, we're heading for a recession the way that Malcolm is "leading" us.

Malcolm is relying on using one credit card to pay off another !! This can't go on indefinitely - something has to give !!

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 3:26pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 12:57pm: Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! Why aren't we being productive anymore ? How do we expect to pay back our debts on the back of cafe lattes ? Nothing is being made here except bullshit ! A bullshit economy run by a real estate agent from point piper. Is this what Morriscum means by prosperity and being the envy of the rest of the world :D LOL Yeh sure you can do anything you want off the back of a credit card but sooner or later you have to pay interest !! hear hear sir Nail, we need heavy industry like Germany - not coffee shops. If a service economy was the way to go then germany would have closed its factories long ago and replaced it with coffee shops and real estate agents !! They are not that stupid of course ;)

Nicely put: it's quite simple .. you can't value-add to nothing!

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2017 at 11:33am:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 6:42pm: Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 3:26pm: Bobby. wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 12:57pm: Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! Why aren't we being productive anymore ? How do we expect to pay back our debts on the back of cafe lattes ? Nothing is being made here except bullshit ! A bullshit economy run by a real estate agent from point piper. Is this what Morriscum means by prosperity and being the envy of the rest of the world :D LOL Yeh sure you can do anything you want off the back of a credit card but sooner or later you have to pay interest !! hear hear sir Nail, we need heavy industry like Germany - not coffee shops. If a service economy was the way to go then germany would have closed its factories long ago and replaced it with coffee shops and real estate agents !! They are not that stupid of course ;) Hi sir Nail, we're heading for a recession the way that Malcolm is "leading" us. Malcolm is relying on using one credit card to pay off another !! This can't go on indefinitely - something has to give !!

When Johnny got the finger the mining companies showed the voter who's boss 'round here!

Bam wrote on Apr 21^st, 2017 at 6:12pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 12:57pm: Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 21st, 2017 at 11:10am: These days just about every shopping strip or center is dominated by cafes, restaurants and real estate agents !! What the hell is going on here !! Why aren't we being productive anymore ? How do we expect to pay back our debts on the back of cafe lattes ? Nothing is being made here except bullshit ! A bullshit economy run by a real estate agent from point piper. Is this what Morriscum means by prosperity and being the envy of the rest of the world :D LOL Yeh sure you can do anything you want off the back of a credit card but sooner or later you have to pay interest !! hear hear sir Nail, we need heavy industry like Germany - not coffee shops. Germany - a country that we should be aspiring to match. Not the third world like the clowns on here seem to want.

The clowns on here are from planet accountant! It's called terrorism but there is nothing new under the sun!