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Actually I would have agreed with that a while back. I used to think our cultural identity started and finished with beer, noise and ockerism. But, recently I have begun to appreciate a more subtle Australian culture. It gets buried by the loud obnoxious version but its there. |
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Where is the petition to stop all foreign cars coming to Australia, then we might sell some Falcons!
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For years we've been hearing about the elusive event that will unify Australia and America, and so far they've only been fads.
Examples were professional baseball leagues, NASCAR, even an NFL exhibition match. These happened during or before the 1990s and where did they lead us? Right now it appears that V8 Supercars is becoming an export, whether this is just another fad time will tell. As similar as we are to America, we are also very different. I just don't see many of our citizens allowing it, there would be some very violent protests. |
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Maybe if we take the positives from both places and combined them. Then get rid of all the negatives.
America is cool and has some great things, cheaper products and all that, but Australia is a much better place to live and work. We have it pretty easy here. |
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If Australia became part of USA there would be quite a number of advantages:
1) 350,000,000 extra customers for all of our produce 2) A Dept of Justice whose focus is ensuring that government and public servants do not misuse their position and that all laws are "fair". (speed cameras etc.) 3) A constitution that actually bestows rights on ordinary people. 4) A government that is not afraid of business including mining, fuel and media. 5) All senior public servants become elected so it would no longer be a "boys club". 6) The dole would be replaced by "minimum wage" which is the same income except you actually have to work for it. 7) We would have a high quality road system. and lots more..... Of course there would be a lot of disadvantages. 1) We would be a much higher profile target for terrorism. 2) A lot of our traditional "free" things like medical etc. would require some form of medical insurance line Medibank Private etc. 3) We would inherit a lot of the social unrest in USA. and a lot more..... But it will never happen. Australia is a socialist democracy and those who have power here would lose control. USA has a collective mentality of "We are the best because we work, we earn, we solve our own problems and are responsible for our own decisions". Australia has over the last 70 years or so has headed more and more towards "We are the best because someone else works, pays us, we blame everyone else for our problems and must be told what to do and wrapped in cotton wool in case we hurt ourselves". And getting back to the original premise of the topic. On a number of occasions I have put forward the idea of allowing left hand drive vehicles on our roads and the overwhelming majority have cried "it is too dangerous, we are not good enough drivers, it should be banned". And answering you question Damo, from a business point of view it would be great as there would be no impediments to paying extra money and giving benefits to employees who a good workers and cutting the wages or sacking on the spot those who are lazy bad workers. |
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NB is todays other news, Tuesday's federal budget will fund the F3 to M2 link here in NSW. Design detail, many kays of tunnel, is kinda hidden atm, but I expect a mere two traffic lanes and no continuous 'shoulder' - we'll see.
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Eg: Capitalism: pros- promotes and rewards work ethic cons: small safety net for those not doing well Socialism: pros: Big safety net for everyone cons: enables laziness, lack of economic growth The utopian idea is that you could have both pros together and get rid of the negatives of both, but that's impossible. |
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The negatives outweigh the positives too much...
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Glad it failed. What a dumb idea.
But in saying that if Australia was a US state the Falcon would still be made here post 2016 and sold all over the US. Because One Ford protects all US cars and all the other foreign made stuff can go to hell if it doesn't benefit the US. |
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Reading that news article it's hard to believe anyone would take such a petition seriously.
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As long as they could bring out a cheaper Mustang to OZ, sure.
![]() We already have american spelling, we have blokes walking around with their trousers almost falling off, kids wearing baseball caps, for some unknown reason some people celebrate halloween, certain sections of the community behave terribly and seem to have easy access to guns, the list goes on and on. We are MUCH better off with a government that is in Canberra than 10,000+ klms away. I LOVE our country and I DON'T want us to become the 51st state, leave that for Mexico. ![]() |
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Well, you have got what you have hoped for! Congrats! ![]()
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