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Thread ID: 116729	2011-03-17 20:59:00	Where is our future?	bk T (215)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1187033	2011-03-17 23:48:00	Its not looking good is it? Maybe we can do what some of my customers do, go bust	prefect (6291)
1187034	2011-03-18 00:22:00	Its not looking good is it? Maybe we can do what some of my customers do, go bust Stop overcharging your customers then. :)	Snorkbox (15764)
1187035	2011-03-18 00:34:00	Stop overcharging your customers then. :) You are kidding, right? :confused:	wratterus (105)
1187036	2011-03-18 00:42:00	You are kidding, right? :confused: Yep! Seriously though, perhaps we get the unemployed to make solar panels and fit them. Could cost less than a nuclear power station I suspect.	Snorkbox (15764)
1187037	2011-03-18 00:52:00	Slowly we've stopped making things. We buy everything from China mostly. Like much of the rest of the world. And they wonder why there's unemployment. And the best they can come up with is sell assets. Wonder what they new "fix" will be once theree's no assets left.	pctek (84)
1187038	2011-03-18 01:21:00	If we could spend a few years with a political leadership that rewarded those work rather than taxing them to death with the aim of turning most of the population into those who get some form of benefit we might come right. Working For Families springs to mind Labour introduced this system so as to produce a captive group of voters. They take it in as tax, charge administration costs and give back the bit is left largely to the same people they took it from at the start. If National had any fortitude they would cut it out altogether. Social welfare should support only the needy not the greedy.	CliveM (6007)
1187039	2011-03-18 01:46:00	We could stop buying so many LCD tvs We could stop banking with overseas owned banks We could insure with NZ owned companies. The government could start cutting back on Working for highly paid Families The government could stop giving out the ddb to new all new mothers from tomorrow. The government could start charging interest on student loans and make them pay the loans back before they leave the country. Plus about 20 other things.	Digby (677)
1187040	2011-03-18 01:51:00	Yes PcTek You are dead right there. Those luddites who say it was Roger Douglas and Briarley's etc who sold us out fail to realise that most other western countries were doing the same. Do people think that China makes children's clothes an mp3 players by the container just for New Zealand. They sell millions of containers all over the world. Unemployment is much higher in the rest of the western world than here, except in Germany where they actually make expensive things that people want. Western governments probably realised that the way to keep inflation down was to allow cheap imports so that people would be happy that their non increasing pay was gong further. Now, we are all "working" in service industries.	Digby (677)
1187041	2011-03-18 01:57:00	@Snorkbox People have been saying that we should be processing our primary products for years. Great idea. Surely they have tried. But Japan wants to make their own pallets out our logs China wants to make their own baby formula and cheese and yoghurt out of our milk power. The USA want to make their own hamburger patties from our beef. We are now importing furniture and timber (form Chile at Bunnings) even though we are full of trees, so how can we export furniture?! But there is some good news. There are a surpsieing number of niche companies in New Zealand doing very well exporting all sorts of stuff, but we don't hear enough about them, and there are not enough of them, and they don't export enough stuff to pay for what we want. No one is owed a living by divine right. Ask anyone who lives in the African desert.	Digby (677)
1187042	2011-03-18 01:58:00	Stop overcharging your customers then. :) I wouldnt get repeat business if my prices are too high. I am just a truck owners charity service	prefect (6291)
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