Hey, Gordy...you know how you keep swiping at South Australia for being a rust bucket?
How about looking in your own backyard?
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/the-recessionary-horror-of-the-western-australian-economy-002509793.html
Things not so good when no-one wants to buy your rocks, are they?
No China, no Western Australia.
Better buy up on your "Made In China" goods.
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How about looking in your own backyard?
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/the-recessionary-horror-of-the-western-australian-economy-002509793.html
Things not so good when no-one wants to buy your rocks, are they?
No China, no Western Australia.
Better buy up on your "Made In China" goods.
Ah hell, that is nothing. Alberta, Newfoundland and my own province of Saskatchewan are worse. Alberta is in the worst shape because they have an incompetent socialist government with not one elected member with industry experience. We are in the best shape of the three because we have a pragmatic leader who would never deliberately do anything to deepen the economic pain like Alberta and Newfoundland are doing.
Another point is that when the boom was booming, Western Australians thumbed their nose at the rest of Australia, claiming to be the righteous engine room of the Australian economy. They complained that "their" natural resources (whatever happened to living in one nation) were paying bills for other States, and they wanted more of the pie.
The worm turns. It will be interesting to see how they feel about living in a Commonwealth now.
The issue is, of course, that like Canada, Australian is a Federation of States. This structure was essential when there were no such things as electricity and video games, but in a modern world, three tiers of government is 2 too many, and so State governments act in competition with each other, instead of pulling together for the national good.
Not to mention, of course, that State governments and their replicated bureaucracies are hugely expensive, and simply dissolving them would help pay of lot of other bills.
One nation, one government.
It's a little different in Canada. Alberta in particular has been the province that has paid the bills for the nation for the last two decades. Quebec, on the other hand is the tail that wags the dog and the feds take the money out of working Albertans pockets and buy votes with it in Quebec and Ontario too. It's called equalization payments and it is pure corruption. In return Quebeckers show their gratitude to Albertans and Saskatchewan too for all the money we send them by blocking pipelines to tidewater so that our two provinces cannot get international prices for our oil. We are at the mercy of one customer(USA) and they take advantage of being our only customer by deeply discounting our oil. It makes secession a tempting option for some people in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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How about looking in your own backyard?
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/the-recessionary-horror-of-the-western-australian-economy-002509793.html
Things not so good when no-one wants to buy your rocks, are they?
No China, no Western Australia.
Better buy up on your "Made In China" goods.
Ah hell, that is nothing. Alberta, Newfoundland and my own province of Saskatchewan are worse.
Please forgive me, but I actually wanted Rachel Notley to win the spring 2015 election..
I, along with a lot of Albetans regret that.
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Sounds pretty similar.
States acting in their own self interest, against the national benefit.
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Sounds pretty similar.
States acting in their own self interest, against the national benefit.
Australia isn't as divided as Canada is it?
There is no Bloc Quebecois/Parti Quebecois, Western Canadian separatist groups is there?
You probably have a version of our equalization scheme though.
I lived and worked in Queensland for a while. There is definitely regionalism in Aus, but they are not stupid about it like Canada. National infrastructure projects can be built there.
My heart skipped a bet. Pattaya problems. But nah just crap about Perth/WA which is fucked .
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It will bounce back.
And I will bounce right out of here and live a life of tranquility surrounded by riches and rootable babes.
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Good for you brother is that is what you want. Iron horse jockey plans on moving to some Caribbean paradise when he retires. I like my farm and I do not intend to move anywhere despite how fricking frigid Saskatchewan gets in winter.
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Kalgoorlie?
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Kalgoorlie?
I have heard about that place.
Gold mining town with legalised brothels.
Perfect for Gordy...although its not exactly an aesthetic environment.
Kalgoorlie is full of boongs. Yes brothels are legal but the whores that work there are terrible. Give me Patts any time.
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Good for you brother is that is what you want. Iron horse jockey plans on moving to some Caribbean paradise when he retires. I like my farm and I do not intend to move anywhere despite how fricking frigid Saskatchewan gets in winter.
The perfect life means different things to do different people..
GORDY, Twenty Dollars, iron horse jockey and yourself have different ideas of what that is.
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Perfect for Gordy...although its not exactly an aesthetic environment.
There are quite a few resource boom towns(formerly) across Western Canada. None have legalized prostitution though. They all punched well above their weight class and contributed a lot more per capita to the provincial and national bottom lines.
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Perfect for Gordy...although its not exactly an aesthetic environment.
There are quite a few resource boom towns(formerly) across Western Canada. None have legalized prostitution though. They all punched well above their weight class and contributed a lot more per capita to the provincial and national bottom lines.
Thompson was a boom town too at one time. People came from all over Canada to work in the mines. Winnipeg politicians use use the revenues from Thompson to buy votes at election time. Thompson has been a bust town for some time now.
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Good for you brother is that is what you want. Iron horse jockey plans on moving to some Caribbean paradise when he retires. I like my farm and I do not intend to move anywhere despite how fricking frigid Saskatchewan gets in winter.
The perfect life means different things to do different people..
GORDY, Twenty Dollars, iron horse jockey and yourself have different ideas of what that is.
To be married to you.
ac_wub :6:
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Good for you brother is that is what you want. Iron horse jockey plans on moving to some Caribbean paradise when he retires. I like my farm and I do not intend to move anywhere despite how fricking frigid Saskatchewan gets in winter.
The perfect life means different things to do different people..
GORDY, Twenty Dollars, iron horse jockey and yourself have different ideas of what that is.
To be married to you.
ac_wub :6:
:laugh:
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Kalgoorlie?
A mini Calgary. :laugh3:
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Kalgoorlie?
A mini Calgary. :laugh3:
lol Velvet..
Calgary would have more in common with Perth.
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How about looking in your own backyard?
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/the-recessionary-horror-of-the-western-australian-economy-002509793.html
Things not so good when no-one wants to buy your rocks, are they?
No China, no Western Australia.
Better buy up on your "Made In China" goods.
Ah hell, that is nothing. Alberta, Newfoundland and my own province of Saskatchewan are worse. Alberta is in the worst shape because they have an incompetent socialist government with not one elected member with industry experience. We are in the best shape of the three because we have a pragmatic leader who would never deliberately do anything to deepen the economic pain like Alberta and Newfoundland are doing.
Speaking of making things worse, Truedope is going to impose a national carbon pricing scheme(whether the provinces go along with it or not) that will be even more painful for average Canadians than the one Nothead inflicted on Albertans. I will start a thread about it in Politics.
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How about looking in your own backyard?
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/the-recessionary-horror-of-the-western-australian-economy-002509793.html
Things not so good when no-one wants to buy your rocks, are they?
No China, no Western Australia.
Better buy up on your "Made In China" goods.
Ah hell, that is nothing. Alberta, Newfoundland and my own province of Saskatchewan are worse. Alberta is in the worst shape because they have an incompetent socialist government with not one elected member with industry experience. We are in the best shape of the three because we have a pragmatic leader who would never deliberately do anything to deepen the economic pain like Alberta and Newfoundland are doing.
Speaking of making things worse, Truedope is going to impose a national carbon pricing scheme(whether the provinces go along with it or not) that will be even more painful for average Canadians than the one Nothead inflicted on Albertans. I will start a thread about it in Politics.
The squeeze on my paycheque is about to get tighter.