What Melbourne used to be like 1966

[Bobby]

Mightn't be better to just build more flats/houses for social housing needs, Black Orchid?

NO! We need more WATER and infrastructure to meet the demands of the way too many people crammed in here already first and foremost. How simplistic you are

Brian thinks that there's an endless supply of money and he's partially right -
it's called borrowing money.
That debt is already astonishing - should we borrow more?

National Govt. debt $705 billion.
State and Local Govt. debt $169 billion.

https://www.australiandebtclock.com.au/

[brian ross]

Mightn't be better to just build more flats/houses for social housing needs, Black Orchid?

NO! We need more WATER and infrastructure to meet the demands of the way too many people crammed in here already first and foremost. How simplistic you are

Brian thinks that there's an endless supply of money and he's partially right -
it's called borrowing money.
That debt is already astonishing - should we borrow more?

National Govt. debt $705 billion.
State and Local Govt. debt $169 billion.

https://www.australiandebtclock.com.au/

We could ask the rich to pay their taxes, Bobby. We could also ask corporations to pay their taxes. I know both concepts are antithetical to most Tories though. Funny that, hey? People actually paying the tax they are required to.

[Bobby]

Mightn't be better to just build more flats/houses for social housing needs, Black Orchid?

NO! We need more WATER and infrastructure to meet the demands of the way too many people crammed in here already first and foremost. How simplistic you are

Brian thinks that there's an endless supply of money and he's partially right -
it's called borrowing money.
That debt is already astonishing - should we borrow more?

National Govt. debt $705 billion.
State and Local Govt. debt $169 billion.

https://www.australiandebtclock.com.au/

We could ask the rich to pay their taxes, Bobby. We could also ask corporations to pay their taxes. I know both concepts are antithetical to most Tories though. Funny that, hey? People actually paying the tax they are required to.

Yeah right.

[Black Orchid]

It has nothing to do with the North Shore, Brian, except that the whole of Sydney is on water restrictions for the first time in over 10 years. There's that chip again!

[Bobby]

It has nothing to do with the North Shore, Brian, except that the whole of Sydney is on water restrictions for the first time in over 10 years.
There's that chip again!

Brian sees everything in terms of the Marxist doctrine of class warfare.
If we are in serious growing debt it's all because the rich haven't paid their taxes -
not because we allowed millions of the world's trailer trash to immigrate here -
people who have no education and bludge off the system -
taking away valuable resources from Australians who need it.

[Black Orchid]

It has nothing to do with the North Shore, Brian, except that the whole of Sydney is on water restrictions for the first time in over 10 years.
There's that chip again!

Brian sees everything in terms of the Marxist doctrine of class warfare.
If we are in serious growing debt it's all because the rich haven't paid their taxes -
not because we allowed millions of the world's trailer trash to immigrate here -
people who have no education and bludge off the system -
taking away valuable resources from Australians who need it.

Agree. He has this obsession about where I live but offers no logical solution other than "The rich the rich the rich. It's all their fault" and all the while denigrating middle class Australians.

We need to HALT immigration of unskilled bludgers who are straining not only the system but our resources as well.

[Bobby]

It has nothing to do with the North Shore, Brian, except that the whole of Sydney is on water restrictions for the first time in over 10 years.
There's that chip again!

Brian sees everything in terms of the Marxist doctrine of class warfare.
If we are in serious growing debt it's all because the rich haven't paid their taxes -
not because we allowed millions of the world's trailer trash to immigrate here -
people who have no education and bludge off the system -
taking away valuable resources from Australians who need it.

Agree. He has this obsession about where I live but offers no logical solution other than "The rich the rich the rich. It's all their fault" and all the while denigrating middle class Australians.

We need to HALT immigration of unskilled bludgers who are straining not only the system but our resources as well.

Meanwhile - Australia is intoxicated with borrowing more to reach unsustainable goals.

[Black Orchid]

We should be drastically cutting foreign aid and halting immigration until we are back in the black.

[Valkie]

We should be drastically cutting foreign aid and halting immigration until we are back in the black.

This should be step 1

Step 2 should be to rid ourselves of the parasites who come here and take but do not contribute.

Step 3 cut politicians and public service wages and benefits.

Step 4 remove abbo benefits and give them the exact same as every other Australian

[Bobby]

We should be drastically cutting foreign aid and halting immigration until we are back in the black.

Hi BO,
There should be public trials of whoever was responsible for bringing
in all that trailer trash & the debt that we'll never be able to pay off -
that is only increasing by at least a few $billion every week.

No one I know ever voted for that and no one was given an
opportunity to vote for that.
The questions of immigration and debt were forbidden topics in the last election campaign.
They are always forbidden topics in our Big Brother dystopian society.