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Originally Posted by soulman
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We need to adapt to our needs wether its producing food or something else !
My 2 cents. Soul.
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I'm with you soulman.
We are sending our primary producers broke because we import fruit and vegies from overseas whilst our own farmers leave produce on the ground.
Fresh orange is no longer fresh ...It's made from imported dehydrated powder imported from OS.
We import seafood from overseas which has been raised in questionable conditions.
Our Government reports dodgy unemployment and under employment figures.
These real figures from Roy Morgan research :
However what should concern the Government is that a large 2.305 million Australians (18.2% of the workforce) were unemployed or under-employed in March and while this is down 1.6% (168,000 less than last month) it is up a large 226,000 (1.0%) over the past 12 months since March 2012.
The Fed Government has to realize that it is employed workers who pay taxes, consume products, including cars, and generally add to Government coffers.
We need more people "producing" something. Only when people earn a fair wage can they "consume" and contribute to the economy.
I'm going to get flamed for this but the only course left for the Oz. Federal Government (whatever color) is to introduce a Job Guarantee:
See here for explanation:
What is a Job Guarantee? | Bill Mitchell – billy blog
I'll put my flame suit on now!