BROCK: I think you missed my point about diversification. The reason people wouldn't/shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket is because if something goes wrong with that basket (the Australian economy, or even more narrowly, a segment thereof), there's big trouble. By diversifying across several markets, you minimise risk.

I think it's more complicated than you point out. Part of the national interest involves more than simply building Australian businesses, although that's obviously a large part of it. I do think we need to be doing more to promote certain industries in this country (namely scientific and medical research, alternative fuel technologies, etc.), but some (most secondary industries) are simply unviable in many ways (unless we're willing to impose tarriffs or people suddenly start buying Australian), and so it may actually be worth us investing in those industries in other countries for two reasons. The first is that it provides revenue and/or capital growth for our investments, as well as diversification against risk. The second is that those industries overseas may then require input from our industries that are viable. Creating or expanding markets overseas is actually beneficial for us. I think there's a role for primary industry in this country, and we should be energetically pursuing high end R&D and manufacturing, but traditional manufacturing is a waste of effort.

My own position on taxation is that I would prefer a user pays system, even if that would disadvantage certain segments of society. I don't think government bureaucracy uses taxation efficiently, and I resent re-distributive economics. However, I realise I'm very much out of line with most Australians. As such, people have to accept that if they want government, they're going to have to pay tax, and inefficiencies are very much part and parcel of that. You can make adjustments here or there to advantage or disadvantage one or more groups, but you're not going to change the underlying nature of the system.

I came up Green but at only 61.8%, Blimey ! !

Part 1
“Life beyond the grave is real. The Bible proves it. Jesus proves it.”
Posted by coach, Friday, 27 April 2007 8:32:41 PM

OK some 30 odd years ago my father-in-law told me that he had seen many dead people during WWII and to him I was dead! (After an industrial accident)
Well, whatever happened I am still alive and I might have looked death but darn I could not resist to live real life a bit longer. More then the length I had lived then so far.

I didn’t see any pearly gates! I didn’t see any angles. So, while for others I appeared to be dead, to me I never saw anything.
To my father-in-law I had a resurrection but to me it was simply that I was kicking on and while the fat lady might have been singing it certainly was not my time, at least I held so.
If life beyond the grave is real, is that meaning that I was resurrected and have a life as such?
As to “The Bible proves it”, so far I known there were those people at the time, or some hundreds of years later who were basically playing bingo with scripts and decided what was in and what was out. Like anything that portrayed Judas to be les then the evil traitor seemed not suitable for inclusion. Now, that is like the unsworn affidavit of a witness that is withdrawn the moment any reliable evidence is presented that counteract what was alleged.
“Jesus proves it”, well I could not have been closer to death then I was, as otherwise it would have been a permanent departure, yet, I have neither seen Jesus in real life on earth or in the death I was about to face.
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Part 2
Basically, I had the real experiences and didn’t like the darkness, not even any hell fire to light up the place, and so it was not attractive enough to me and I for one cannot make out how on earth anyone could have a life after death in such darkness, unless they happen to have a power strike or so on that it was so dark. Then again, perhaps they had a blackout deliberately to make it unattractive for me to stay over that side and so convinced me to better stay on the brighter side of life. So whatever any religion portrays in the after life, was all black to me and if the afterlife in continuation of my normal life then I better make now the best of it while I can.
How on earth “Jesus proves it”, when you can only imagine him, is also beyond me.
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Sorry posts were put on the wrong page. that is what happens leaving windows open and then pasting in without first checking it out.
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