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Selfish.
Look at US/Europe if you want to see how many people half measures kill.
If the cost of saving life is the entire airline industry, so be it. To put it more kindly, we can rebuild businesses we can’t bring the dead back to life.
Why, the hell, do you idiots want to prolong state border restrictions? We are pilots!
Look at US/Europe if you want to see how many people half measures kill.
If the cost of saving life is the entire airline industry, so be it. To put it more kindly, we can rebuild businesses we can’t bring the dead back to life.
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Many will disagree but that provides context.
Selfish.
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‘........Who is also in a vulnerable age group and doesn’t see why he should have to die so that you can afford the latest color TV.
I am sick of young people who regard a lost year as a catastrophe. Ask your great grandparents what upheavals they endured. A year of lockdown and loss of a years income is insignificant. You have decades to get over it.
says the retiree with no requirement to work to live, so screw everyone else.
I am sick of young people who regard a lost year as a catastrophe. Ask your great grandparents what upheavals they endured. A year of lockdown and loss of a years income is insignificant. You have decades to get over it.
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‘........Who is also in a vulnerable age group and doesn’t see why he should have to die so that you can afford the latest color TV.
I am sick of young people who regard a lost year as a catastrophe. Ask your great grandparents what upheavals they endured. A year of lockdown and loss of a years income is insignificant. You have decades to get over it.
‘........Who is also in a vulnerable age group and doesn’t see why he should have to die so that you can afford the latest color TV.
I am sick of young people who regard a lost year as a catastrophe. Ask your great grandparents what upheavals they endured. A year of lockdown and loss of a years income is insignificant. You have decades to get over it.
Your comments make it sound like a simple feat for businesses to rebuild in order to save EVERY life in the meantime. Is it that simple? Maybe ask a few of the business owners who haven’t been able to open up for 3 months in Melbourne whether they can afford to come back.
I am sick of young people who regard a lost year as a catastrophe. Ask your great grandparents what upheavals they endured. A year of lockdown and loss of a years income is insignificant. You have decades to get over it.
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‘........Who is also in a vulnerable age group and doesn’t see why he should have to die so that you can afford the latest color TV.
I am sick of young people who regard a lost year as a catastrophe. Ask your great grandparents what upheavals they endured. A year of lockdown and loss of a years income is insignificant. You have decades to get over it.
‘........Who is also in a vulnerable age group and doesn’t see why he should have to die so that you can afford the latest color TV.
I am sick of young people who regard a lost year as a catastrophe. Ask your great grandparents what upheavals they endured. A year of lockdown and loss of a years income is insignificant. You have decades to get over it.
Young people have been consistently dealt a **** hand by a generation that profited enormously off of the labour and sacrifice of the greatest generation in a massive economic boom. You have left young people with a housing market they can't buy into, education expenses that you had paid for and a climate on the brink. I'm not sure why you're surprised that when they get handed this **** sandwich of a deficit that they'd question whether it's been worth it when they'll be paying it off for you for the rest of their workings lives. Boomers are sacrificing nothing and gaining everything, at the expense of everyone else and then getting pissed off at being questioned over it.
The notion of finding something or someone to blame for all your troubles is of course seductive to the young, especially if it’s their parent’s generation.
Simplistic and intellectually lazy it may be, but there’s no doubt ‘old white guys’ are the new bad guys.
Apparently, before the boomers came along, young people just had it made.
Young people have been consistently dealt a **** hand by a generation that profited enormously off of the labour and sacrifice of the greatest generation in a massive economic boom. You have left young people with a housing market they can't buy into, education expenses that you had paid for and a climate on the brink. I'm not sure why you're surprised that when they get handed this **** sandwich of a deficit that they'd question whether it's been worth it when they'll be paying it off for you for the rest of their workings lives. Boomers are sacrificing nothing and gaining everything, at the expense of everyone else and then getting pissed off at being questioned over it.
Let’s just conveniently ignore the quality of life that today’s “young people” (whatever that means) enjoy, computers, iPhones, instant information on the web, online shopping, home delivered meals, universal healthcare, gap years, worldwide travel for $500, betting apps, smashed avocado, and music streaming. So much self gratification and consumption at your fingertips.
You don’t get to retirement age and then expect to continue ‘sacrificing’, it’s done in the years well before then and there’s nothing wrong wanting to enjoy retirement. Boomers do not run today’s governments.
Instead of whining about how unfair it all is, get elected and abolish negative gearing. Get elected and finance free education for all - see how much debt that can generate. Get elected and bring in a real climate change policy. But most of all stop whining. Nobody wants COVID.
(No, I’m not a boomer, not retired nor did I get a free Uni degree.)
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‘........Who is also in a vulnerable age group and doesn’t see why he should have to die so that you can afford the latest color TV.
I am sick of young people who regard a lost year as a catastrophe. Ask your great grandparents what upheavals they endured. A year of lockdown and loss of a years income is insignificant. You have decades to get over it.
‘........Who is also in a vulnerable age group and doesn’t see why he should have to die so that you can afford the latest color TV.
I am sick of young people who regard a lost year as a catastrophe. Ask your great grandparents what upheavals they endured. A year of lockdown and loss of a years income is insignificant. You have decades to get over it.
I agree with much of what you say and we’re probably in a similar age group but my feeling is that the Govt was waaay too generous at the beginning of this, assuming it was going to be over in a similar time frame to SARS.
They’ve made a rod for their own back and are finding it difficult to back-pedal now without pissing off a significant % of the population who think they’ve been given ‘free’ money. (Please, no Modern Monetary Theorists step in here. Absolute BS)
I can’t help but sense we’re on the doorstep of creating a massive Socialist State if we keep going down this path.
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Yet more brilliant decision making on display in the Peoples Republic of Victoria overnight.
Fancy this - that the great unwashed have objected to ~500 race horse owners, connections and a lucky other few being allowed to witness the Cox plate in the flesh.
The peons are not permitted to go to a friends wedding, or a funeral on health grounds, confined to quarters until recently, but for the elites, sipping champagne in the mounting ring is ok.
The insouciance of them all, how dare they challenge the government. Perhaps they are waking from their slumber.
You couldn't make this stuff up.
Sutton has been fed to the sharks now, more dominos to fall soon.
Fancy this - that the great unwashed have objected to ~500 race horse owners, connections and a lucky other few being allowed to witness the Cox plate in the flesh.
The peons are not permitted to go to a friends wedding, or a funeral on health grounds, confined to quarters until recently, but for the elites, sipping champagne in the mounting ring is ok.
The insouciance of them all, how dare they challenge the government. Perhaps they are waking from their slumber.
You couldn't make this stuff up.
Sutton has been fed to the sharks now, more dominos to fall soon.
Yet more brilliant decision making on display in the Peoples Republic of Victoria overnight.
Fancy this - that the great unwashed have objected to ~500 race horse owners, connections and a lucky other few being allowed to witness the Cox plate in the flesh.
The peons are not permitted to go to a friends wedding, or a funeral on health grounds, confined to quarters until recently, but for the elites, sipping champagne in the mounting ring is ok.
The insouciance of them all, how dare they challenge the government. Perhaps they are waking from their slumber..
Fancy this - that the great unwashed have objected to ~500 race horse owners, connections and a lucky other few being allowed to witness the Cox plate in the flesh.
The peons are not permitted to go to a friends wedding, or a funeral on health grounds, confined to quarters until recently, but for the elites, sipping champagne in the mounting ring is ok.
The insouciance of them all, how dare they challenge the government. Perhaps they are waking from their slumber..
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Watch - like him or loathe him AJ nails it in a few minutes.
Discuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmlQjcmuBZY
Discuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmlQjcmuBZY
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The press reported a week ago that WorkSafe chief Colin Radford has spent the last eight weeks looking at how our largest industrial accident took place. He has been asked to prosecute four politicians and sixteen public servants. A number of silks are exploring how WorkSafe executives can be prosecuted for inaction if there is a third wave and more deaths. Supreme court may be involved.
https://www.selfemployedaustralia.co...uarantine-mess
https://www.selfemployedaustralia.co...uarantine-mess
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A new cluster outbreak in Melbourne potentially making all the collective punishment of Melbournians for the past 2 months count for nothing. The family at the centre of the outbreak say they were given conflicting information from DHHS on what they were allowed to do, and that they were regularly called by different DHSS staffers who required their story be explained from the beginning each time.
This is effectively the reason we have a problem in Victoria, and as I mentioned previously, we will continue to suffer these DHHS fools as long as they remain in the way.
This is effectively the reason we have a problem in Victoria, and as I mentioned previously, we will continue to suffer these DHHS fools as long as they remain in the way.
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The press reported a week ago that WorkSafe chief Colin Radford has spent the last eight weeks looking at how our largest industrial accident took place. He has been asked to prosecute four politicians and sixteen public servants. A number of silks are exploring how WorkSafe executives can be prosecuted for inaction if there is a third wave and more deaths. Supreme court may be involved.
https://www.selfemployedaustralia.co...uarantine-mess
https://www.selfemployedaustralia.co...uarantine-mess