Dear Lexi, I already read your google link and can only suggest
that you find better sources. The latest weekend edition of
the AFR might be a good suggestion, but as its well researched
information, you'd have to actually buy a copy and pay real money
for it. Just because something appears on a website, does not
make it true.

Dear Yabby,

Truth in discussions such as these
is rather subjective.

The reason that I referred you to that particular web site
was - to give you a different perspective.
I'm pleased that you did read it. Good for you.

The article was written by a highly respected journalist,
Ben Eltham. Eltham is someone who
actually does do his homework - and he interviews quite
a variety of people and sources.

The essence of a business is the vision behind it.
Winning at someone else's expense is an old
paradigm and an increasingly obsolete model of
success. Separation leads to disintegration
and joining leads to success as any student of
organisational behaviour knows.

Maybe we should treat the incompetence of the Greeks like in the game of monopoly...( Iam sure there,s quite a few champions here that's played it :)

You all know the rules;).......when you become bankrupt, your out!.....and someone else takes it over and runs it better.......What!...dont look at me like that:)......that's how the game is played, isn't it:)

Someone from the European union, must take control......or see the money the world/we are all putting in, you would have a better chance of a return at the race track for your good will.

THE RULE STATES! WHEN YOU RUN OUT OF MONEY, YOU LOOSE.....its someone else's turn to roll the dice. ( or in business terms.....welllll you get the picture.

But I forgot, Iam still thinking of the game of Monopoly....

Oh dear, I just cant get it out of my head:)

CACTUS

My dear Lexi, there is no bigger picture. As wobbles put it in his monopoly reference, no profits equals bankruptcy, equals no more jobs. That's no more jobs at all.

Do ask those who worked for Ansett, British Motor Corporation, hundreds of US & UK steel works, & so many others that have not kept pace.

I wonder how many companies that used to make those sticky paper fly traps you hung from the kitchen ceiling light are going. Probably not well, same as Ansett. Qantas can very easily be another Ansett, or it can fly on, looking a bit different, but still flying.

General Motors in the US was about to go broke, laboring under industrial relations conditions given a couple of decades ago. With new players from Asia & Europe, manufacturing in the US, but not burdened with those luxury conditions, GM were gone. It was only by going into receivership, & shedding some of those past conditions that they have survived.

I have not followed what this meant for retired past GM employees, I expect it is not good, I do hope they are still getting something. Better something than nothing, but it has probably not been good for many.

Reading propaganda sheets gives you a different perspective, but not one that is likely to maintain employment in Oz for very much longer.

Sorry, cactus not wobbles.

Think you best stick with monopoly.
It is just a game the cash is not real and your departure enriches others.

Greece gos under many country's/Banks/People do too.
Just maybe us all, we talk of Greece, tomorrow it may be one of five others.
Not one evil silly, or criminal.