whingers and whiners
Jun 7th 2010 | 11:20 pm
#94
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Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 10,994
From: Melbourne
Re: whingers and whiners
The resource industry is of course a special case...that's why they already pay royalties...huge royalties, which of course the previous government was all too happy to collect.
My understanding is that RSPT at least partially replaces royalties...but there is so much noise on this subject coming from the mining sector it's almost impossible to have a reasonable debate.
The mining sector of course says if it wasn't for us Australia would've fallen victim to the GFC...but I read somewhere that if resource sector job losses had been replicated throught the economy we would've had 19% unemployment!
Jun 7th 2010 | 11:29 pm
#95
Crazy Cat Lady
Joined: Apr 2004
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Re: whingers and whiners
Not strictly true. Once, when I told him his opinions were wrong and used Australian Bureau of Statistics figures to prove it and he told me I could "shove those figures up my f#$kin @r5e"
....then Iamthecreaturefromuranus said I was one of the top blokes on this site.
....then Iamthecreaturefromuranus said I was one of the top blokes on this site.
Jun 7th 2010 | 11:54 pm
#97
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Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 178
Re: whingers and whiners
so. can we say that some people like oz and some dont then
Jun 7th 2010 | 11:56 pm
#99
Australia's Doorman
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 11,057
From: The Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia
Re: whingers and whiners
I post once a week, if that, these days. But if the stuff I said in this thread is considered bad form then this site really has plummeted into a morass of tedium.
I mean seriously, what about all those dust-ups with Spike Plankton - and what-his-name with the rat for an avatar - and that bloke that had about 50 accounts - and wombat69 and all those other ones who understood the basic principle of arguing on Internet forums that guides everything else. *grumbles ... drools into his pie and mash ... scratches his balls ... and saunters off to bed ... *
Jun 8th 2010 | 12:00 am
#100
Proudly Deplorable
Joined: May 2003
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From: Alloha snack bar
Re: whingers and whiners
why don't you try debating it on here?
'forced income equalization will stunt growth'
- if 'stunting growth' is a bad thing, then why do we seek to control growth through monetary policy?
perhaps controlling growth = facilitating the growth of some, at the expense of others....
'forced income equalization will stunt growth'
- if 'stunting growth' is a bad thing, then why do we seek to control growth through monetary policy?
perhaps controlling growth = facilitating the growth of some, at the expense of others....
You obviously have a socialist, left-wing viewpoint on this topic and I have a capitalist, right-wing viewpoint. There's no point as I am never going to agree with the RSPT in it's current form.
Let's agree to disagree.
Jun 8th 2010 | 1:36 am
#102
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Re: whingers and whiners
Nope, sorry - cos some of us like bits - and dont like other bits. I live here, I accept that, same as I eventualy would accept wherever I happened to be iving. Doesn't mean I really like it or dislike it - its just there. Same mucky brown stuff, just a different bucket.
I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........
I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........
Jun 8th 2010 | 7:16 am
#103
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Re: whingers and whiners
Nope, sorry - cos some of us like bits - and dont like other bits. I live here, I accept that, same as I eventualy would accept wherever I happened to be iving. Doesn't mean I really like it or dislike it - its just there. Same mucky brown stuff, just a different bucket.
I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........
I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........
Jun 8th 2010 | 9:32 am
#104
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Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 18,840
Re: whingers and whiners
Nope, sorry - cos some of us like bits - and dont like other bits. I live here, I accept that, same as I eventualy would accept wherever I happened to be iving. Doesn't mean I really like it or dislike it - its just there. Same mucky brown stuff, just a different bucket.
I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........
I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........
Jun 8th 2010 | 9:46 am
#105
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From: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
Why don't you give it a go?
