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how true...what have we become as a country
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If GM fails to fix it's self in 90 days & collapses, so will the US economy, then EU's, then us (OZ), then Chinas, then it aint gonna matter what the price of jocks or Holdens are or where they came from, we will all be wearing holy jocks & walking everyw |
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The problem is that Australia treats shareholders like they are important. More important than an employee or a customer.
This is wrong very wrong.
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The problem is that Australia treats shareholders like they are important. More important t
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Yes shareholders do own the company but they are not important as they too can be replaced. The best way to run a company would be if the employees were major shareholders and not some foreign company.
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unions in this country should not be immune to wide ranging criticism for the state of manufacturing in australia....
it is no secret we as a manufacturing country are not competitive when compared to our asian neighbours.... there is fighting for work
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Well said hqgts.
you get the star stamp in your excercise book for that rant.
it surpasses all other rants, it is a superbly written rant, crafted with skill, succint, and most importantly,, correctomundo, in its entirety.
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lots of very interesting posts, good reading.....sad but true.
Jim5.0 shareholders are not really the problem .....its the bonuses they pay to CEO's that is problem.
GM's Hummer has been sold to Sichuan Tengzhong...you might want to guess where the
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Topic is drawing a lot of attention and for good reason.
Some very good posts.
hqgts though yours makes a lot of sense.
if the wharfs were blocked to imports from China, all over the developed world it would actually force the governments of th
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allus though gts if we block imports we are being hipocrytical. We stop imported food but we think its ok to export or own food. What the difference. my only concern is we have to meet massive export standards and our import regulatoins are lesser standar
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we have higher wages standards yes otherwise true
hard situation
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I think that we should be treating our natural resources like the Arabs do.
Why can't we say "from today on you will be paying XXX more for our iron ore or woodchips or whatever" Where else are they going to get the stuff.
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At the rate china is growing with their internal expansion and consumption soon they wont have to worry about exports to other countries, all they want is some of our raw materials. Jack
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