Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
And before you say “it’s a fact”, it is, in fact, a choice made by a few and thrust on the many. It may be that the many are willing to sacrifice self-sufficiency and instead rely on a communist dictatorship in return for ‘economic prosperity’, but the many weren’t asked. And despite the ‘economic prosperity’ the actual standard of living of the many in Australia has been going backwards for quite a while.
I agree, a choice made by the wealthy and powerful clique that run our country all in the name of cheap manufacturing. We were not consulted but make no mistake, we love to participate.
Are you suggesting we should be self sufficient from China or the global market place in general? If just China, why?
When we were selling lots of cars to Saudi Arabia were you concerned that it was to a "dictatorship" also?
What do you think the outcome would be were Australia to vote on withdrawing from trade with China? "Hand the flatscreen telly back and go out and start making flat screen telly's Trevor!"
Wow, have we strayed a long way from the topic.