aquascoot wrote on Jun 10^th, 2014 at 7:08am:



Now that's a good start up business if you can get someone to lend you a cool million dollars. The banks don't lend to the unemployed either. We have a coin operated dog wash in my town, it's attached to the car wash, it would be a multi million dollar venture and although the car wash part has some custom, the dog wash is not popular, but maybe in the city, although how much would the land cost, just for starters?

I did read where people are surrendering their dogs to the RSPCA because they can't afford to keep them.

Also electricity and water is going up exponentially across the board, it wouldn't be a cost effective business, you'd have to charge too much, that's why people don't use the ones that are already available.

I can think of one too, but they are always costly to start up. Hire out gofers (those three wheeled mobility scooters) in shopping centres. People can't always take their own because of distance, but.......it's a risky business and a costly one, most small business ventures are.

Small businesses are closing down, not starting up.

Here's another one.

Buy a gold mine.

Here's another.

Repossession Engineer (debt collector).......the next boom industry in Australia. Get in before you need a university degree to do it.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jun 10^th, 2014 at 8:55am:



Don't tell Spartacus, he thinks their all overpaid and full of government subsidies,

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aquascoot wrote on Jun 10^th, 2014 at 9:01am:
They dont create jobs!!!! This is the mythology you generate so that you can press govt for more handouts.  People dont use those tradesmen (who more often then not are sole traders) if they don't have money. A fairly paid working and middle class are the real job creators in this economy (Meynard Keynes proved that) and your mythology is just a greed grab to get as much as you can before the ship completely sinks.    Oh and BTW ask anyone who has had the misfortune to deal with those many tradesmen you refer to and ask them how often it was a bad experience, with rip offs abound, promises that were never kept and constant delays.  If anyone is a dead weight on the economy with inefficiencies, low productivity and unconscionable business practices its small business generated because of the easy ride they have been getting for the last 2 decades.   

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ImSpartacus2 wrote on Jun 10^th, 2014 at 9:47am:



Blahahaha,
I am reminded of an interview once on A Current Affair with some dope smoking guy with 6 kids from the sunshine coast who got $1600 a fortnight in centrelink payments and was proud of the fact he had never had a job.(never once in his life)
he smiled into the camera and said that "he was creating a lot of jobs in the economy as he and his kids were employed as "consumers" "

My (and i'm sure most peoples) common sense radar BS detector went off on that one.

Thoughts ? 

ImSpartacus2 wrote on Jun 10^th, 2014 at 9:47am:



Amazingly simple, isn't it?  When the buying public are doing it tough, they have nothing to spend and thus the whole cycle goes downhill.

Now - this is a far cry from total or huge handouts to millions of people just to spend - that is a short-term 'fix' for an ailing economy as Kevin 07 did - but the simple reality of improving the lot of the ordinary working people and providing genuine opportunities means they can buy and thus business flourishes.

What does NOT contribute to the economy is handing more and more money to the rich, since that is rarely spent and then most often overseas anyway.

THAT is where the Black Holes of Economy start, and that 'system' is made worse by the same privileged treatment of companies large..... and offshore in the main.

As before - a rich household may buy two microwaves - but a thousand moderate households will buy a thousand microwaves..... it's called economies of scale....... applied to small business.......