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[Adam Todd]

>the fact you pick on "Profit" as something dubious clearly shows you dont
>understand what capitalism is about and how it creates material
>prosperty for *all* parties involved.

Profit.  A wonderful topic when you consider current oil prices aren't even 
as high as they were in the 1980s, yet the pump price is almost 30% higher.

Then we have companies, Telstra for example, increasing it's rentals and 
call charges, far above that of any time in the past, and making huge 
profits, yet providing less and less service.

Mortgages use to be ten years, now most are 35-40 years.  Property values 
are beyond any single income family, most are now beyond most dual income 
families.

Profits.

Profits only exist whilst consumers have money to pay for the products.

Recent fuel increases have caused an increase on grocery and other 
items.  With the increase on these items, consumers can't buy as much 
product as they use to.  Hence ten percent (lets say) product is left 
behind because consumers can't afford to buy them.

Retailers have to discard of the product, hence mark downs or disposals, 
and that increases the losses to the company, hence the prices need another 
increase.

Now, in most retail stores, there are "workers" people who turn up and load 
the shelves and run the checkouts and administer the shop.  These people 
warn what is typically known as a "wage."

I didn't notice that with the increase in fuel prices, there was an 
increase in wages so match it.  SO my only assumption is that people are 
earning an insufficient amount of money to pay for the fuel, goods and 
write off.

If a business has to sack staff because it's profits decrease, that means 
there are less customers in the market place to buy the products.

Less income in the community, means less purchases at the shop.

We have one other factor in here that most people overlook.  CREDIT.  Many 
people have credit cards, loans, interest free purchases and so on, which 
after two - five years comes back to bite them quite hard.

The consumer is told "Have it now, pay later" but pay in what way?  Pay 
more later is the common hand rubbing enthusiasm noticed on the faces of 
the credit providers.

So in 3-5 years, people won't be able to pay for the goods they currently 
have on interest free and loans.  They will be repossessed and what?  Sold 
to whom?  The Credit Market will crumble to the point where nationally, and 
probably internationally, the economy folds over itself backwards.

Parents are the raises of children, but also the workers.  Grandparents 
don't raise kids in our "sophisticated" culture.  Hence the problem.  We 
have a society of "Parents" who are in fact Children themselves, have not, 
generally, learnt any wisdom, because they were not taught by the 
intelligence and life experiences of the Elders.

And kids today rarely see their parents unless it's "Sit down and eat your 
dinner" and "GO TO BED."

And Parents don't support the Grandparents and Children either.  Utopiam 
Capitalism?  Yes.  For someone, somewhere.

But when the average Aussie Wage was announced this week as being 
$47,000.  I almost died of shock.  My WHOLE FAMILY income has been less 
than $12,000 a year for the last six years, with bad debt exceeding a tax 
write off now of over $7,000,000.  (You'll note that the family tax benefit 
is around $1000 a month for a family of two adults and three children.)

What have we done!

We've lost community.  No one cares about their neighbor, in fact we're 
taught now to DOB IN OUR NEIGHBOR even if they only thing they do is 
breath.  I should know, I'm DOBBED in all the time, yet no action has even 
resulted in an thing except severe embarrassment for the neighbors and the 
authority stupid enough to take out an action without investigating first.

Earlier this week, memories of April 2003 came flooding back when Baulkham 
Hill Shire Council sent two "Inspectors" (Young girls I might add) to 
discuss a complaint about our pool!

Our pool is the same pool, in the same condition as it was when we 
purchased the property 7 years ago.  How on earth could there be a 
complaint about our pool?  What legal merits could there be.

Needless to say "they were turned away" over the video phone on the door 
(since the last police raid, we have one now!  How much more do I have to 
do to protect my family from vexatious complaints??) and we haven't heard 
form them since.

But knowing how Council works, they are no doubt trying to find some legal 
looking hole to attack me again, using ignorance and denial as their front 
line form of defence.

Sorry for the tangent :)