Dear Individual,

Education covers a very wide area beginning with schools,
onto trade and training centres - onto TAFE colleges,
and only finally ending with universities. And young people
are entering trades. My nephew has chosen carpentry as his
trade - and he was inspired by courses he did at school
and found that he loved it. Now he's working full time, while
continuing with studies in his chosen field. BTW - we all
know that you get your skills from on the job training - but
you get more opportunities - if you show enough of an interest
to be actually studying for something. It's the price our
society puts on your having a credential. Would you trust an
unqualified electrician?

*"Education" translates into another nicely oiled cog in the consumption and endless growth machine...*

I just blame all you females and your endless shopping gene.

If you girls just dished out the sex more like bonobo females,
without all the commitment and endless demand for money,
blokes could put their feet up, enjoy the moment and not worry
about growth....:)

Education covers a very wide area ,
Lexi,
that's why I said education for education's sake is pointless.

Lexi, everything the government does is missaimed.
Else why would the local Tafe have closed its electrical trades course ?
The closing of manufacturing is one cause, lack of govt interest is
the other. They are still talking about globalisation and growth.
They still do not realise growth is ending.
This is not temporary, it is permanent !

A local two way radio company cannot get staff or trainees.
As the owner said to me all they want to do is play computers and games.
He has a couple of retired techs that are radio amateurs working for him.
Both are in their 70s.
He knows why, it is too hard a work and requires a real determination.

It is going to take a couple of posts to get this in.
First while reporting it in another thread returning from my trip I heard the following.
ABC Radio National Australian journalist Chris? claiming we are biased and not Representative, all on line blogs and such.
No maybe partly, but I think we too mirror the country.
Look what has politics got to do with this?
If we must, only the truly uninformed do not know/understand, we are going well.
The GFC is here this day, and ELEPHANT in our kitchen sink!
No matter how well we are ruled, how good we handle our economy, we are going to see the beast break wind.
Greece has spent, along with Italy Spain England America too much.
The Euro is about to die!
Folks Capitalism, the glue, only glue holding humanity together is in danger.
Only great reforms, we will get them but they will come only after suffering,will save us/it.
Continued

Stay with me all will be explained.
I left my home bought in 2002 early Saturday.
It built in 1970 was once a Sydney executive house, then doctors surgery and such.
5 bedrooms two bathrooms it was one of 8 transfered by truck rebuilt in my village or close to here.
Well reconstructed but a fibro house I paid less than $100.000 for it.
Village average was 45 to 50thou.
I drove Saturday to my great love a seaside town known for its fishing.
Copy's of my home,2 rooms or 3 and older without the renovations,sold 12 months after my purchase for $600.000
The next two rears saw brand new Mac Mansions invade now more than two hundred of them.
But until two years ago those fibro cottages, purchased and torn down to build a mansion cost a million dollars.
Credit can be great.
It has for too long been misunderstood by too many.
No sexism intended but my fishing did not happen.
I spent my time counseling lifetime Friends who filled house with items on credit and on wifes demands ,went broke.
Living now? in rented flats for too much rent.
We are going to hear much more of the Elephant.