Apec Sucks

[MUZ580]

I work on Sussex St - it was mayhem this morning, a few leaders came past in their cars, PNG, Phillipines then USA - there was people lining the st as if it was NYE. Unreal, I even got a wave from George himself.

Scary part was the van that came past after GWBush with its doors open and a dude with a machine gun showing it off to everyone.

[tab]

What clowns. That will make for an entertaining episode....if their equipment isn't confiscated.

[XR06T]

is it really that busy there that they needed all those fences etc?

[SCRIBR]

lol @ chasers

[aiboart]

'....Chaser team member Chris Taylor said the motorcade comprised "three cars, a couple of motorbikes, and a lot of crew".'

The ABC may find itself, and its and management facing charges under the occupational health and safety act.

For the ABC to deliberately send an entire crew of employees and a fleet of vehicles to penetrate the most politically sensitive piece of real estate on the planet for the sake of a comedy stunt, demonstrates a complete reckless disregard by the ABC for the safety of its workforce.

The crew, once it penetrated the exclusion zone was in dire danger. The further the crew penetrated the zone the more imperiled its safety became; having penetrated as far as they did the crew were only a moment of confusion or distraction away from a sniper bullet or other form of annihilation launched from the Australian or visiting security forces.

Regards,

aa

[XR6T8080]

So you lost $20,000 from a business that from the sounds of things makes quite a good profit, the 20k is tax deductable, are you paying tax at present? if you are your going to pay less.

im wondering how much money John Howard has actually made you in the property market in the last few years with the introduction of the home owner grant which sent property prices soaring (im assuming your in the property market being a business owner) im sure he didnt set out to cost you 20k.

do you honestly think that as a business owner your going to be better off under labour? I reckon you would double that 20k in the first 12 months with interest rate rises - WHICH WILL HAPPEN. forget 7%, try on 17% with runaway inflation and see how you go.

I appreciate the loss of your money, but john howard has done in 5 years what usually takes a lifetime to achieve in the property market. business owner? voting for labour ??? doesnt make any sense to me.

[XR6T8080]

Why dont you take the phone off the hook, or just divert the calls to your house and run your home as a call centre for the week and call your techs and tell them where to go, why do they have to be at the office?

I used to run a mobile pc repair business, for several years, it was just me however, I dont do it any more because computers drive me round the bend and the only thing I use them for now is this forum, ebay, and my email (which I cant be bothered checking much either). Couldnt you send half of them home, or give them a day off in exchange or something. do all the urgent calls and schedule the not so urgent ones for later next week? or do the work remotely? im sure you have that setup if you have 10 employees.

If your a truly mobile repairer I dont see why you need a fixed office at all.

[Slymeat]

To be fair any business that makes lots of money also has large overheads, good luck this has been on the cards for a long time though.

[ZAP]

Wesley,

I appreciate the advice, but you are not seeing my point.

Firstly the $20k is not tax deductable as I am not donating it to charity, I am not making it at all, I am paying wages and not getting income.

Second I do not own a home, I sold it earlier this year and I am renting. I also need to let you know that when John Howard was treasurer Australia had it's higest recorded interest rates. This was under the LIBERAL government and that labour government inhereted it.

"As for Howard's economic credentials, given the economy is what he seeks to make the electoral battleground this election year, let me remind you just how ratty it was during his five years and four months as Fraser's treasurer. That is, from November 1977 until the Coalition's defeat in March 1983. Howard cannot now steal Costello's headlines. As he acknowledged on radio in his testimonial on Monday, they belong to his deputy.

I asked Fraser this week why he'd ever made Howard treasurer. To get his predecessor, Phillip Lynch, out of the headlines, he replied without hesitation. Lynch at the time got caught up in a land scandal at a place called Stumpy Gully on Melbourne's outskirts. Fraser, having already launched the 1977 election campaign a year early, was desperate to bury Lynch until after polling day. He succeeded. Howard replaced him as treasurer. Four years later he also replaced Lynch as Fraser's deputy.

Howard brought down his first budget on the night of August 15, 1978. He would deliver four more budgets. At no time in his five years and four months in Treasury would it ever get any better than it was on the night of that first budget. Inflation at the time was 7.9 per cent, down from 12.3 per cent six months after the Fraser government gained office. Home mortgage rates were 10 per cent. Unemployment was 6.2 per cent. Over the next five years mortgage rates would dip, for one year, to 9.5 per cent and unemployment would hit a low, in June 1981, of 5.4 per cent.

But the budget outcomes announced on the night of August 15, 1978 would never be as good, overall, for Howard's stewardship of the economy ever again. And when he left the Treasury after Labor's victory under Bob Hawke in March 1983, all of the key economic indicators would be much worse than when he arrived more than five years earlier. Inflation stood at 11.1 per cent, unemployment at 10 per cent, and home mortgage rates at 13.5 per cent.

I detailed these figures during the 1996 election campaign that ended Paul Keating's government and made Howard prime minister. I pointed out how Labor's 13 years in office had achieved far more, in absolutes, for the Australian economy than had Howard's five years as treasurer, despite the appalling peaks under Labor of 17 per cent mortgage rates in late 1989 and a million unemployed in late 1992. So that when Labor left office in March 1996, inflation stood at 5.1 per cent (11.1 per cent inherited from Howard in March 1983), unemployment was 8.6 per cent (10 per cent inherited), and home mortgage rates were 10.5 per cent (13.5 per cent inherited).

Thank you, John Howard, treasurer."

While I am a Liberal voter, John Howard and his party are acting like they have already lost and Rudd is not a bad leader.

[groper]

im with ya zap, except for the part about rudd being a good leader...

the economy is set by the howard government over the last decade for things to go in one direction... inflation up... as all of their policies have been inflationary... inflation has already started to move alarmingly higher and will continue to do so... then a labour government gets into power, at which point everyone blames the hard times ahead on them (with high interest rates to keep inflation in check)... sound familiar?

thing is though, everyone loves inflation!!! seeing their assett increase in value, everyone loves that... so its like wow, im doing really well financially now... thanks johnny/pete for the great economic prosperity... until the inflation gets out of control, interest rates must follow to keep the bubble from bursting and a period of slow growth or recession follows! the issue is the time it takes for all this to happen... the kind of time that goes well beyond 1 election term...

Edited 06/09/07 11:39 AM by groper