It's pity that when one tries to hold a rational debate, you end up being abused by a semi-literate dole bludging troll.

to bad you started it first and I have a job do you shadow minister ?
Read The posts you lost your temper and started abuse
Don't like being told your wrong ?

I am really happy you have joined the employed.

The government really has done wonders to help the physically and mentally disabled find meaningful work.

dear sm let me tell you a little story
the year is 1976 I was in 3rd form the then minister for employment did a round at Sydney schools
He wanted boys aged 15 and up to leave school and go get an apprenticeship because our country needed us the job where mainly in manufacturing. So the majority of my classmates where given apprenticeship we where basically cheap slave labour of course we where only paid an apprentice wage. 3 years and the firm I worked at closed the doors We made Pipe fittings.So now I m living on my own no job no income get a job everyone told me, So I did cutting chickens up So after about 20 such jobs mainly because companies keeped closing ( in the meantime i had done night studies to finish year 9 and 10 to receive a school certificate.
At this time I started my own business and was quite successful until we had more government intervention remember the words "the res session we had to have "It then took me 10 years to payout all my bills and i paid all of them I owed nothing no bankruptcy,I then was stuck with applying for more jobs , Guess what nobody wanted to employ someone with just a school certificate, I was forced to take a job at a major retailer and until I turned 50 was no problems. at 50 no one was interested in employing me and I am by far not the only one the number of over 50 out of work is a national disgrace , I had to move to the ACT to get work which i now work very long hours for minimal wage.So as I see it i've been screwed over already 3 times by governments and will not take them at face value, You have constantly slandered me but really I am a creation of bad politics,.Get out in the real world see how bad things are for the average worker, and Australia is in boom-time ?Please

I repeat goodonya Aussieboy, You at least recognize the symptoms of failure about market supremacy,it is as you suspect actually a system for screwing the people of the planet to the huge benefit of a few, 1% is the word on the ground. Brighter people than most of us bloggers have currently and historically done in-depth studies of global economic trends. I have read extensively on this subject and to me there is no doubt that the western economy's are being sustained on the back of over exploitation of slave labour and natural resources. Some of us feel comfortable about this fact, I certainly do not. The shirt on your back is most likely made by some poor sod labouring for $3 a day in one of the 90 countries which operate free trade zones. Google free trade zones and find out for yourself. Den 71

AB,

I am sorry things did not turn out so well. I am also over 50 and know that it is easier to get a job as a young man.

I think the thread of what you are saying is an anger against government meddling. However, the 10 things that you would like done are extreme forms of government intervention that would have catastrophic results.