Belly,
How do increased wages improve living standars when everything keeps pace in going up ?
Seems rather pointless to me except perhaps the odd useful Australian made product can be exported in exchange for prices going up so the wages need to follow again. Our biggest export is money taken by australian tourists to cheap holiday destinations in Asia.

Silly Cat & mouse game anyone ?

Well maybe a thread about this is something you may stat indy, back on subject.
Hasbeen told me my reading is purely left, if even near true the Australian center has moved to the left.
America too, Trump is not universally liked or trusted.
Being a Democrat is far far from being a lefty.
took time to look at latest American news about Trump and he is in a bit of trouble next month.

Dear Belly,

I'm not sure if the links are "slanted."
There's probably some amount of bias in all
reporting.

I chose them because they're well known ones in the US
and I thought they'd give us a reasonable sort of overview.
However, I guess we should also look at other sources
to get the bigger picture. As for policies? I agree
with you - that we should look more closely at them -
not only the ones that we want. The ones that we don't want
will after all affect our lives as well.

Foxy yes and in no way did I intend to target your post, rather the opposite, reading both sides of an issue is the only way to be well informed.
I am finding the leftist conspiracy stuff here chuckle worthy.
Having lived long enough to have seen the true left, Russian Chinese communism left, and watched or researched, how even some trade unions and politicians served that left, I roll on the floor laughing at the Trump style madness, that supporters of the Democrats are, an evil left
Reality along with truth is a victim once a whole political movement resorts to lies and mistruths, much much worse than Gobels used.
That horrible man murdered his own children as a reality set in, his Germany was not one the world could except, we will not see murder but we will see a downfall of what is a madness, America under Trump is not a country the rest of the world trusts

America under Trump is not a country the rest of the world trusts
Belly,
That's because the rest of the world is too far behind draining its swamps. At least here in Australia they've started to.

Dear Belly,

We certainly live in interesting times don't we?
So much information is now available to us - and
yet it's hard to sift through it all.
The next few months will show us in which direction
we're all headed. I'm still optimistic about things
though.