Oh dear, I failed to mention to whom I was responding in the previous post.

Jay of Melbourne.

Hay folks, I'm right with you on stop the immigration, I reckon we have all, or more than, we should ever have.

However, every time we have a divorce, or a break up, we seem to need a new house. If we are going to build them, lets spread out a bit, & build good neighbourhoods. Living jammed between some old houses, just because it's close to a city you will rarely if ever visit, is a mugs game.

Remember that lab experiment with rats, where they increased the number in a set space. At a certain level of crowding, they started killing each other.

Well, if you pay attention to the news reports something sounds similar.

So welcome to the experiment folks. Enjoy!

What really annoys me about people like Ross is that, according to them, it is entirely about opponents of population growth having the wrong mind set and that it is us who need to be change our thinking or be oppressed.

Ross's entire career has been in an industry that cannot exist without a steady supply of new home buyers. Once the housing needs of the existing population are met he goes off to government demanding increased immigration to keep his career, and his lifestyle, going.

On the other hand, ordinary folk like you and I have to go off to the centre link queues once the market for our employers' products contracts and our own services are surplus to our employers' requirements.

So whose interests is Ross et el really serving here? Australia's or his own?

Well may be Ross has to face the fact that the services that he and his companys' supply to Australia are similarly surplus to our collective requirements and that HE should join the centre link queues or otherwise pursue another career!

Despite the fact that Ross would love the building industry to grow indefinitely and for his career in to prosper until his retirement, he needs to face up to the fact that the industry is not a productive one when it goes beyond supplying the legitimate needs or the native population.

We have seen what has happened in Ireland in particular with their enormous building bubble that has burst with the GFC, leaving hundreds of thousands of Irish with investment property loans they cannot pay back and with entire empty estates that will likely be bulldozed in the coming years.

How is such a scenario of any economic help to Australians in the long term.

WHEN are we and our governments going to quit giving people Ross, and industries he represents, the oxygen that they do not deserve!

How many boom and busts have there been in past decades all touted, by self interested individuals like Ross, as the next big thing in wealth creation for the nation.

How many generations have had their fingers eventually financially burned by businessmen like Ross?

When will we learn from history rather than continually repeating it?

We heard it all before in our current life times, let alone through recent history.

"This boom is different and will never end."

"The price of ...... will never decrease."

But every time the unthinkable that Ross et el say will never happen, indeed happens sooner or later.

But they always make sure that the millions they have made by exploiting others are safely quarentined from the inevitable bust.

When will we learn folks?

Never?

Ahh Boylsey, such passion.

Good on you. Cheers.