Sorry OUG, that last post was meant to go to the author.

Hasbeen, transport cost is the main parameter that will kill globalisation
and the cost is rising steadily. One factor in that is the trend to diesel for cars.
This has put strains on refineries that cannot provide the diesel
bunker fuel ratio that they previously found just right.
The result is container ships are forced to buy a diesel/bunker mixture
and many have reduced their speed from 25 knots to 15 knots to save fuel.
That plus rising port charges, which there was a report about recently
somewhere must be having a gradual screw down on shipping lines.
Like all these things it is difficult to guess the timing of when it
will be obvious, all that can be said it, if you see this, that will happen not long after.

Yes costs are a powerful malfunction, and 457 visas will cost.

Yes 579, we should be training our own.

Yes Hasbeen and 579, and if our own refuse to be trained, cut them off!

We will need every single job on offer for our own long list of looming unemployed, so an immediate ban on immigration (including illegas) and 457's must be implemented, as we know in advance we are headed for a train wreck, so we must be pro active, not rective, as is usually the case.

In fact, if we don't take immediate action, a recession would be an easy outcome, as we could actually see a depression.

The next five years will see us in damage control and high end manufacturing will mean little because few will be in a position to afford the buy these goods.

I know i sound like doom and gloom, but just look at the numbers.

In the next five years, we will have no car industry, including their supporters, the CSG projects will be winding down, and China may not be buying our coal or iron ore.

It is my view we are in for a hiding to nothing, the likes most of us haunt seen before.

I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong.

Do you think that since one third of our sons who have not had a live at home father going to work each day will get the incentive to get out of bed to go to work? Many have spent all their time playing games and self entertainment and haven't learned self discipline to achieve in the work force. Their self image has been damaged to believe in themselves as great men.

We need to regain the incentives and drive of our forefathers whose labours we have for too long relied upon.