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By Ian Mott, published 21/8/2006Kneejerk fixes to temporary water shortages could leave Queenslanders with an expensive legacy in a declining water market.
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While appreciating your good will and intellegent suggestions, $3,000 may as well be $1 million to most working families, it is akin to offering a Rolls-Royce to a working family at half price, while it reresents a terrific bargin, the family is still unable to afford the wheel covers.
Highly paid people [ no insult intended ] seem to believe that everyone in the community recieves the same remuneration as themselves, nothing could be further from the truth. The first person who can show me a shop assistant on $56,000 per annum, will have a commitment from me, that I'll bare my bum in Bourke Street, if such a shop assistant is found.
Even though I am debt free I could not come up with $3,000 unless I prostituted myself, which is something I wouldn't do. All I am suggesting is now that both you and Perseus have identified the problem and the solution, please devise a way to get the plan off the drawing board and under construction. The sticking point is that $3,000 is about $2,700 more than an ordinary working family can afford.
Regards, Shaun.