From 2G to 5G has to do with what. That sounds like an Abbott bill.
Fortune tellers are frauds, no-one can see the future.
No one is employing, just as well don't you think, we would have to get some from another country. We are at capacity.
Employers don't advertise jobs unless there is a position. Check out employment vacancies.
Food is the safest type of business, as people will continue to eat. That is future telling. It has nothing to do with fortune.
Christmas spending up 4% on last year. Two more Quarters before the end of budget, so be careful of predictions, that may not materialize. Swan said it was unlikely there would be a surplus, that means there will not be further cuts, and cause unemployment.

I must have missed something here, what is the 2G to 5g about ?
The phone system ?

Fortune Telling;
Well thats where Wayne probably stuck Julia out on a limb when he
guaranteed that there would be a surplus, even if they did have to
move charges early & later years. I doubt she will ever forgive him that.
I was surprised at the time he did not put any qualifiers into it.
Especially when all the experts were making mumbling sounds about it.
Some were actually saying "Won't Happen !".
I suspect he actually believes he is the worlds greatest.

That is what makes him and the government so dangerous.

Just after I sent that last post I realised something;
Just a matter of few days, I think less than a week Julia Gillard was
saying that the surplus was certain, before Wayne Swan announced the
negative surplus or in real words a deficit.
He must have known he was in trouble at the time and probably had
Treasury scambling for numbers to avoid having to admit failure.
Yet he kept the PM in the dark, or alternatively she was complicit.
If complicit she was lying again.

Do you realise under the new laws the govt is to bring in in 2013 the
PM would be able to drag me into court because she was offended by me
saying she was lying ?

The most dangerous person here is Abbott, he wants govt; but doesn't want to say what sort of govt;.
If you can put your trust in that situation, go for it.
A request has been lodged with the fed police, to look into the conduct of the lib and nat, party over the Slipper case. Nice way to start an election year. Half way through the year it probably be Thomson's turn.
That is better than dragging it around parliament, wasting time.
The budget has two terms to run, not a done deal yet. The last quarters figures were down, and prompted Swan to hedge his bets.
Bazz did you look up Telstra's rim service, they are doing that because it is cheaper. Not so good for the locals.

At capacity you say 579.

Ok, then can you explain a few points that I just don't get, assuming you are right.

1. If we are at capacity, that also means we are collecting tax from more PAYG payers than ever and, it also means that source of revenue is pretty much, at capacity.

2. If we are at capacity, why then are we borrowing so much?

3. If we are at capacity, which pretty much means anyone wanting a job, has one, why then are most people doing it tough?

4. If we are at capacity, how are we going to fund labor's out of control border fiasco?

And lastly, if we are at capacity, yet we can't collect enough taxes to provide for the basic services, how then are we going to fund these in the future? Not to mention Julias wish list items, such as her education dream and NDIS?

Of cause I will understand if you either can't reply, or chose not to, as you have placed yourself between a rock and a hard place.

Rehctub,

Totally agree with you. Small business is doing it really hard. In fact so hard many have closed down. Even 100 year old larger companies have realised this fact, and also closed.

579,
Have you ever got it wrong!
Employers are not employing because their trading figures are so way down, not because we are at employment capacity.
As for our trading figures being up this Christmas, have you given some thought that since the introduction of the disastrous carbon tax prices have increased, therefore trading figures have too. Does this mean business is doing better. Ask business owners if they are worse off now than they were before Labour started slugging them wherever they could squeeze a bit more out of them.
Employees have proved they are incapable of saving for their own futures, so employers by law have to pay the - [is it 9% still] for them.
Quite frankly, it is no wonder that some retailers and companies have decided to just give up, and close down completely.
Here is a true story from a small retailer friend of mine. He advertised a vacancy, and when the 18 year old who had applied was told how much pay the man was offering, he was very offended. Said he could do better staying on the dole and working for cash when he needed extra money.
The older generation had work ethics instilled from a young age, and on the whole have proved to be more diligent workers for my friend, and happy to accept a reasonable wage. They have learned their experience warrants their income being what it is. Young people expect an equal wage with no experience under their belts.