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Quote:
Gary J Matthews
October 19, 2017 ·

About 35 short years ago I came to live here is South Australia and they had Jobs everywhere, we had Iron Ore and great steel industries, we had ship building, Car manufacturing, Holden, Chrysler, Mitsubishi, even Lightburn made a Zeta, we built TV’s, radio’s, washing machines, Victa lawn mowers, hills hoists & fine furniture manufacturing.

We built Car parts and we even made our own tyres at Bridgestone!

We had fishing ports and cheap Petrol that was made at Stanvac SA, Bulimba Brisbane. Mortlake Sydney Refinery’s from oil brought from Bass Strait, North West Shelf and Timor Sea.
We built Aircraft, Boats, Submarines and battle cruiser, war ships. Buses. Locomotives, Diesel electric trains as well as the tracks and everything was

“PROUDLY MADE IN AUSTRALIA”!

We had Corner stores and Milk Bars and Deli's, and Hardware shops all over the city and country.

Flea Markets everywhere on weekend. All our food was fresh and local. Our Milk was delivered every morning to our doorstep.

We paid our rates to the local council and we use to dump our rubbish free at the local tips.

We had work available as a driveway attendant at all our local Service Stations, that was when we had Australian own Service Stations like GOLDEN FLEECE that even had restaurants owned by H.C. Sleigh...

I even remember good old STANLEY who checked your tyres, checked your oils and washes your windscreen. And at ALL these places you could find a JOB!!!

I remember going to Myers etc to buy Clothes and there was always someone with a tape measure to measure me up and all my NEW cloth fitted perfectly... Today I have to take clothes off the shelves, get them out of the packets, Take them to the fitting room and try them on.. If they didn't fit put them back and keep trying till you get the ones that fit. 2 Hours later take them to the checkout if it is not Self Serve.

They are scanned and the operator tells me the price.... Oh I say... Can you tell me the second hand price please???? These are new She replies... No they are not ! These shirts smell under the arm pits... These are not new at all... How many people before me have tried them on??? I don't know what diseases people have.

We had PUBLIC UTILITIES like Power Stations, Water & Gas which would employ thousand around the Country and so cheap, it would would sustain thousands of Industries all over the Nation. we were all taught Respect for others and ourselves at school.

Then the bloody Government sold our soul !!!!

It started to Corporatise itself and began to compete instead of Govern. Then we started going down hill! All our companies started going offshore or closing down because this new corporate government did deals with other countries under free trade agreements that allowed them to totally wipe out our business and manufacturing by selling us their cheap crap. we as Australians use to all watch each others backs, now we just watch each other through security screens and burglar alarms..

These Foreign Countries took over our Mineral resources. They drove our Farmers off their land and started selling it to these foreign countries and set up 457 visa’s as well which would let these countries bring in their own workers! These things left our once beautiful Country in tatters!

Then these Politicians allowed Foreign Countries to buy our Power Stations and guaranteed them that they would always make a profit at our expense no matter what.

Now because we have lost so much the Government then realised they don't get much income anymore and have to find new ways to make money so it hits it’s own people further in the pocket.

They cut funding to our Education and over the years led us to import skilled workers because we didn't have any!

They cut funding to our Emergency Services, they cut funding to our police and Public housing.

These new Corporate Government Politicians laughed in our faces and gave themselves MASSIVE pay rises and they all pat themselves on the back knowing that we are so dumb and stupid we would not know what is going on!


Now they tell us we have to tighten our belts and lose what little we have left to pay back the MASSIVE DEBT they left us all in.

Now I drive the main roads and all I see is the empty buildings that once housed all these great manufacturing companies and I begin to cry seeing them all run down or for lease!!!

This over paid government need more taxes to live on so they are now going to force our elderly (
God bless them, for they are the ones that built this Nation
) back into the workforce until they are 70. and tell everyone to go out and get a JOB!!

So can someone in this new Corporate Government tell us
EXACTLY WHERE THESE BLOODY JOBS ARE??????????????????????? BECAUSE EVERY BLOODY THING LISTED ABOVE IS GONE, GONE, GONE !!!!



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Reply #1 - Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:38pm
 
Yep.
And there isn't many people called 'Gary' in Australia anymore.
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Reply #2 - Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:41pm
 
Jasin wrote on Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:38pm:
Yep.
And there isn't many people called 'Gary' in Australia anymore.
Grin


Have you ever been to BurpenGary ?
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Reply #3 - Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:45pm
 
WE DESPERATELY NEED A BLOODY REVOLUTION

WE DESPERATELY NEED TO HANG EVERY SINGLE POLITICIAN AND SENIOR PUBLIC SERVANT IN THIS COUNTRY

THEN WE DESPERATELY NEED TO TRACK DOWN ALL THE MULTINATIONALS WHO ARE DESTROYING THE WORLD AND FEED THEM ALL TO THE SHARKS.

We might just have a chance to live a comfortable life afterward for a while until the next lot of despots take over.
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Reply #4 - Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:45pm
 
BTW

Australia has never been 'sold out'.
The Aboriginals and British owned it.
The Americans 'think' they own it too via their Media 'colonialism' like a 'Fake History'

So besides the fact that Australia has always been 'Internationally' owned beyond Aboriginal ownership of 'land'.

I've yet to see anything substantially 'Australian' beyond the above three mentioned - that is 'original' and takes this country and its people into the 'future'...

...beyond still whinging about the 'past'.

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Reply #5 - Sep 17th, 2018 at 9:47pm
 
Valkie wrote on Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:45pm:
WE DESPERATELY NEED A BLOODY REVOLUTION

WE DESPERATELY NEED TO HANG EVERY SINGLE POLITICIAN AND SENIOR PUBLIC SERVANT IN THIS COUNTRY

THEN WE DESPERATELY NEED TO TRACK DOWN ALL THE MULTINATIONALS WHO ARE DESTROYING THE WORLD AND FEED THEM ALL TO THE SHARKS.

We might just have a chance to live a comfortable life afterward for a while until the next lot of despots take over.



That's what Fidel Castro said - look what happened to him....
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Reply #6 - Sep 17th, 2018 at 9:48pm
 
Gordon wrote on Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:41pm:
Jasin wrote on Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:38pm:
Yep.
And there isn't many people called 'Gary' in Australia anymore.
Grin


Have you ever been to BurpenGary ?


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Reply #7 - Sep 17th, 2018 at 9:50pm
 
President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:31pm:
Quote:
Gary J Matthews
October 19, 2017 ·

About 35 short years ago I came to live here is South Australia and they had Jobs everywhere, we had Iron Ore and great steel industries, we had ship building, Car manufacturing, Holden, Chrysler, Mitsubishi, even Lightburn made a Zeta, we built TV’s, radio’s, washing machines, Victa lawn mowers, hills hoists & fine furniture manufacturing.

We built Car parts and we even made our own tyres at Bridgestone!

We had fishing ports and cheap Petrol that was made at Stanvac SA, Bulimba Brisbane. Mortlake Sydney Refinery’s from oil brought from Bass Strait, North West Shelf and Timor Sea.
We built Aircraft, Boats, Submarines and battle cruiser, war ships. Buses. Locomotives, Diesel electric trains as well as the tracks and everything was

“PROUDLY MADE IN AUSTRALIA”!

We had Corner stores and Milk Bars and Deli's, and Hardware shops all over the city and country.

Flea Markets everywhere on weekend. All our food was fresh and local. Our Milk was delivered every morning to our doorstep.

We paid our rates to the local council and we use to dump our rubbish free at the local tips.

We had work available as a driveway attendant at all our local Service Stations, that was when we had Australian own Service Stations like GOLDEN FLEECE that even had restaurants owned by H.C. Sleigh...

I even remember good old STANLEY who checked your tyres, checked your oils and washes your windscreen. And at ALL these places you could find a JOB!!!

I remember going to Myers etc to buy Clothes and there was always someone with a tape measure to measure me up and all my NEW cloth fitted perfectly... Today I have to take clothes off the shelves, get them out of the packets, Take them to the fitting room and try them on.. If they didn't fit put them back and keep trying till you get the ones that fit. 2 Hours later take them to the checkout if it is not Self Serve.

They are scanned and the operator tells me the price.... Oh I say... Can you tell me the second hand price please???? These are new She replies... No they are not ! These shirts smell under the arm pits... These are not new at all... How many people before me have tried them on??? I don't know what diseases people have.

We had PUBLIC UTILITIES like Power Stations, Water & Gas which would employ thousand around the Country and so cheap, it would would sustain thousands of Industries all over the Nation. we were all taught Respect for others and ourselves at school.

Then the bloody Government sold our soul !!!!

It started to Corporatise itself and began to compete instead of Govern. Then we started going down hill! All our companies started going offshore or closing down because this new corporate government did deals with other countries under free trade agreements that allowed them to totally wipe out our business and manufacturing by selling us their cheap crap. we as Australians use to all watch each others backs, now we just watch each other through security screens and burglar alarms..

These Foreign Countries took over our Mineral resources. They drove our Farmers off their land and started selling it to these foreign countries and set up 457 visa’s as well which would let these countries bring in their own workers! These things left our once beautiful Country in tatters!

Then these Politicians allowed Foreign Countries to buy our Power Stations and guaranteed them that they would always make a profit at our expense no matter what.

Now because we have lost so much the Government then realised they don't get much income anymore and have to find new ways to make money so it hits it’s own people further in the pocket.

They cut funding to our Education and over the years led us to import skilled workers because we didn't have any!

They cut funding to our Emergency Services, they cut funding to our police and Public housing.

These new Corporate Government Politicians laughed in our faces and gave themselves MASSIVE pay rises and they all pat themselves on the back knowing that we are so dumb and stupid we would not know what is going on!


Now they tell us we have to tighten our belts and lose what little we have left to pay back the MASSIVE DEBT they left us all in.

Now I drive the main roads and all I see is the empty buildings that once housed all these great manufacturing companies and I begin to cry seeing them all run down or for lease!!!

This over paid government need more taxes to live on so they are now going to force our elderly (
God bless them, for they are the ones that built this Nation
) back into the workforce until they are 70. and tell everyone to go out and get a JOB!!

So can someone in this new Corporate Government tell us
EXACTLY WHERE THESE BLOODY JOBS ARE??????????????????????? BECAUSE EVERY BLOODY THING LISTED ABOVE IS GONE, GONE, GONE !!!!



sons of bitches....  Angry


Sounds like what happened is people started composing endless monologue whinges.
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Reply #8 - Sep 17th, 2018 at 10:04pm
 
Remember how George Piggins killed off South Sydney
because of the 'Good Old Days' were better stuff.
He killed off the 'future' of Souths and only Souths 'juniors' (the sub-future) kept the club ticking along.
Eventually it went under and only a concerted effort of Celebrities and a LOT of money could get Souths back ...from the past.

So in my mind. I really couldn't give a rats about the Past.
Especially when its a whinge of 'Paradise Lost'. It's like listening to old people stuck in the past for fear of what little future they have left (let alone not having the grand-kids visit them more often - like a future to be enjoyed).

So besides the British, Aboriginal and the Americanised 'Eureka' Unionism Colonialism (Media) - that all claim a 'past' here as a justification of what it means to be THE REAL AUSTRALIA  Roll Eyes

I'll just wait for the 'real' Australia to appear and take us into the 'FUTURE' with something better to offer than living in the past.

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Reply #9 - Sep 17th, 2018 at 10:17pm
 
Yes - freediver - what happened to our national interest and sovereignty?

Once upon a time in the mythical land of Oz, an immigrant could come here and expect to work and gain and prosper... now they can come here and expect to be supported for life.... with no expectation of working in an industry  for as long as it takes to earn a home etc....

Now every immigrant expects instant millionaire status -and will getitt by any means including crime....
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Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Sep 17th, 2018 at 10:17pm:
Yes - freediver - what happened to our national interest and sovereignty?

Once upon a time in the mythical land of Oz, an immigrant could come here and expect to work and gain and prosper... now they can come here and expect to be supported for life.... with no expectation of working in an industry  for as long as it takes to earn a home etc....

Now every immigrant expects instant millionaire status -and will getitt by any means including crime....


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Reply #11 - Sep 18th, 2018 at 6:05am
 
Jasin wrote on Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:45pm:
BTW

Australia has never been 'sold out'.
The Aboriginals and British owned it.
The Americans 'think' they own it too via their Media 'colonialism' like a 'Fake History'

So besides the fact that Australia has always been 'Internationally' owned beyond Aboriginal ownership of 'land'.

I've yet to see anything substantially 'Australian' beyond the above three mentioned - that is 'original' and takes this country and its people into the 'future'...

...beyond still whinging about the 'past'.



Aboriginals never did "own" the land in a western sense ... they "belong/belonged" to it then & now.

And don't forget how much of Australian freehold property is now in Chinese hands including the Port of Darwin.
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Reply #12 - Sep 18th, 2018 at 12:12pm
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Sep 17th, 2018 at 9:47pm:
Valkie wrote on Sep 17th, 2018 at 8:45pm:
WE DESPERATELY NEED A BLOODY REVOLUTION

WE DESPERATELY NEED TO HANG EVERY SINGLE POLITICIAN AND SENIOR PUBLIC SERVANT IN THIS COUNTRY

THEN WE DESPERATELY NEED TO TRACK DOWN ALL THE MULTINATIONALS WHO ARE DESTROYING THE WORLD AND FEED THEM ALL TO THE SHARKS.

We might just have a chance to live a comfortable life afterward for a while until the next lot of despots take over.



That's what Fidel Castro said - look what happened to him....


And thats what Iranian said when they try to throw out BP, look what happened to them now.
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Reply #13 - Sep 18th, 2018 at 12:25pm
 
I remember, back in the good old days, when people would take the time to string a coherent argument together rather than leap thoughtlessly from one ill-considered whinge to the next, putting less effort into thinking than writing. The author of that article in the OP obviously thinks his audience's time is worth a lot less than his.
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Reply #14 - Sep 18th, 2018 at 12:36pm
 
Quote:
Gary J Matthews
October 19, 2017 ·

About 35 short years ago I came to live here is South Australia and they had Jobs everywhere, we had Iron Ore and great steel industries, we had ship building, Car manufacturing, Holden, Chrysler, Mitsubishi, even Lightburn made a Zeta, we built TV’s, radio’s, washing machines, Victa lawn mowers, hills hoists & fine furniture manufacturing.

We built Car parts and we even made our own tyres at Bridgestone!

We had fishing ports and cheap Petrol that was made at Stanvac SA, Bulimba Brisbane. Mortlake Sydney Refinery’s from oil brought from Bass Strait, North West Shelf and Timor Sea.
We built Aircraft, Boats, Submarines and battle cruiser, war ships. Buses. Locomotives, Diesel electric trains as well as the tracks and everything was

“PROUDLY MADE IN AUSTRALIA”!

We had Corner stores and Milk Bars and Deli's, and Hardware shops all over the city and country.

Flea Markets everywhere on weekend. All our food was fresh and local. Our Milk was delivered every morning to our doorstep.

We paid our rates to the local council and we use to dump our rubbish free at the local tips.

We had work available as a driveway attendant at all our local Service Stations, that was when we had Australian own Service Stations like GOLDEN FLEECE that even had restaurants owned by H.C. Sleigh...

I even remember good old STANLEY who checked your tyres, checked your oils and washes your windscreen. And at ALL these places you could find a JOB!!!

I remember going to Myers etc to buy Clothes and there was always someone with a tape measure to measure me up and all my NEW cloth fitted perfectly... Today I have to take clothes off the shelves, get them out of the packets, Take them to the fitting room and try them on.. If they didn't fit put them back and keep trying till you get the ones that fit. 2 Hours later take them to the checkout if it is not Self Serve.

They are scanned and the operator tells me the price.... Oh I say... Can you tell me the second hand price please???? These are new She replies... No they are not ! These shirts smell under the arm pits... These are not new at all... How many people before me have tried them on??? I don't know what diseases people have.

We had PUBLIC UTILITIES like Power Stations, Water & Gas which would employ thousand around the Country and so cheap, it would would sustain thousands of Industries all over the Nation. we were all taught Respect for others and ourselves at school.

Then the bloody Government sold our soul !!!!

It started to Corporatise itself and began to compete instead of Govern. Then we started going down hill! All our companies started going offshore or closing down because this new corporate government did deals with other countries under free trade agreements that allowed them to totally wipe out our business and manufacturing by selling us their cheap crap. we as Australians use to all watch each others backs, now we just watch each other through security screens and burglar alarms..

These Foreign Countries took over our Mineral resources. They drove our Farmers off their land and started selling it to these foreign countries and set up 457 visa’s as well which would let these countries bring in their own workers! These things left our once beautiful Country in tatters!

Then these Politicians allowed Foreign Countries to buy our Power Stations and guaranteed them that they would always make a profit at our expense no matter what.

Now because we have lost so much the Government then realised they don't get much income anymore and have to find new ways to make money so it hits it’s own people further in the pocket.

They cut funding to our Education and over the years led us to import skilled workers because we didn't have any!

They cut funding to our Emergency Services, they cut funding to our police and Public housing.

These new Corporate Government Politicians laughed in our faces and gave themselves MASSIVE pay rises and they all pat themselves on the back knowing that we are so dumb and stupid we would not know what is going on!

Now they tell us we have to tighten our belts and lose what little we have left to pay back the MASSIVE DEBT they left us all in.

Now I drive the main roads and all I see is the empty buildings that once housed all these great manufacturing companies and I begin to cry seeing them all run down or for lease!!!

This over paid government need more taxes to live on so they are now going to force our elderly (God bless them, for they are the ones that built this Nation) back into the workforce until they are 70. and tell everyone to go out and get a JOB!!

So can someone in this new Corporate Government tell us EXACTLY WHERE THESE BLOODY JOBS ARE??????????????????????? BECAUSE EVERY BLOODY THING LISTED ABOVE IS GONE, GONE, GONE !!!!


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