The ship has not sailed, it can't find it's way out of port. We have an act of govt; that is indecisive and hamstrung by a raft of promises, with one objective in mind , that was to deceive the people of AU. Now that has come to roost, they are lost, with no plan B. Abbott is to blame, with his policy on the run, with no restraints and now we are in turmoil. Anything to deceive the people.

yes..we missed the boat
first the queen..follows my advice
now obama..[see as sovereigns..ANYONE..has this right

Obama’s Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin

Ryan J. Reilly
huffingtonpost.com
December 3, 2013

The Obama administration was serious enough about manufacturing a high-value platinum coin to avert a congressional fight over the debt ceiling that it had its top lawyers draw up a memo laying out the legal case for such a move, The Huffington Post learned last week.

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which functions as a sort of law firm for the president and provides him and executive branch agencies with authoritative legal advice, formally weighed in on the platinum coin option sometime since Obama took office, according to OLC’s recent response to HuffPost’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. While the letter acknowledged the existence of memos on the platinum coin option, OLC officials determined they were “not appropriate for discretionary release.”

HuffPost submitted the FOIA request when there was increased speculation about the use of the platinum coin option ahead of the debt ceiling crisis this fall. Under the compromise reached between the House and Senate following the government shutdown, the U.S. will hit the debt ceiling once again on Feb. 7, though the Treasury can use extraordinary measures to extend that deadline.

Supporters of the platinum coin option say that under a 1996 law allowing the Treasury Department to mint a platinum coin in any denomination, the president could order the manufacture of, say, a $1 trillion coin that would be deposited in the Federal Reserve. The Treasury Department would then use the platinum coin funds to meet government obligations without the need for Congress to grant any additional spending powers.

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the good news is

http://www.infowars.com/trillion-dollar-coin-idea-to-save-the-economy/

http://www.infowars.com/if-obama-can-just-create-a-trillion-dollar-coin-then-why-do-we-have-to-pay-taxes/

no need to thank..me
it was my pleasure

I disagree. I think Australia is still very much the Lucky Country that Donald Horne so perceptively described all those years ago.

"Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck."

This is the publisher's blurb:

"The phrase 'the lucky country' has become part of our lexicon; it's forever being invoked in debates about the Australian way of life, but is all too often misused by those blind to Horne's irony.

When it was first published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. Horne took Australian society to task for its philistinism, provincialism and dependence. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. Although it's a study of the confident Australia of the 1960s, the book still remains illuminating and insightful decades later. The Lucky Country is valuable not only as a source of continuing truths and revealing snapshots of the past, but above all as a key to understanding the anxieties and discontents of Australian society today."

http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780143180029/lucky-country

Nothing much has changed, it would seem. Illuminated perfectly, it has to be said, by this very thread, on this very Forum.

Suseonline
i might remind you that Churchill gave every citizen in England a 303 rifle and two clips of ammunition for the specific purpose of killing German if they invaded England.
Where anyone gets the idea that workers have 'rights' I don't know.
Workers have privileges and expectations that can be taken away when and if their work does not come up to the standard the employer requires.
A worker should be paid on the basis of his production and profit for the 'boss' not because he has social or economic needs.

....But his posts ALWAYS IGNORE workers rights.

No Belly, only the poor workers, you know, the ones who have now set the bar, or should I say, lowered it.

It's a joke beyond belieif and one that will cost us dearly in years to come.

As for the birth of the unions, boy arnt they up to their old tricks, dragging selected groups of workers off a site for a meeting, knowing full well the job stops, only to then grab another group after that meeting.

I will bet they also feel a sense of achievement with what's happening to Qantas at the moment.

Pretty much sums them up. Thugs!

One boot fits all. Butch You seem to be against unions, as well as various other things. You are looking to far ahead, what about now and your govt; It's solved or don't you believe Tony is up to it. You are talking as if we didn't have a govt; There will be changes as Tony said, there will, so have faith and give the man a go.