Peter Webb wrote:
> fasgnadh wrote:
>>
>> "It's the stupid country"
>> - 16/10/2007
>>
>>
>> "THEY must be counting their blessings, the workers at
>> CSG Solar AG in Thalheim, Germany. Demand for solar power
>> is booming and the people in the eastern state of
>> Sachsen-Anhalt are riding the wave of global change.
>> So successful is the company in developing and
>> manufacturing solar power technology, it recently
>> started to operate around the clock.
>>
>
> And laughing their fat heads off at Australia.
Because they have the jobs we could have had, except
the idiot tories wouldn't spend a penny on development
to save a million dollars on imported manufactures,
all based on technology created HERE, but forced to
go overseas because this government will spend BILLIONS
in compensation for failing industries, but couldn't find
a lazy few hundred thousand for R&D, and support for
fabulous new technology.
Germany gets the jobs and the profits,
they get a healthy balance of trade and BOP,
they have clean energy production, clean air and
foreign trade...
.. we get to buy their imports, run up a trade
deficit, and have Howard force our kids onto shitty
contracts for unskilled jobs serving coffee to wealthy
german workers on holiday.
> For some unknown (to me) reason
All reason is unknown to you, read the article and try
to learn something;
>> Many people in the East had a rough time after the
>> reunification of the two Germanys. The socialist economy
>> was in tatters and there were few prospects for decent,
>> well-paid work. Then, in June 2004, came CSG Solar, first
>> with only one employee. But soon demand for solar products
>> expanded, and so did the need for labour. Today CSG Solar
>> employs hundreds.
Unlike Howard, who was bequeathed a 4%% growth rate from Keating,
(he can't quite manage to sustain it B^p) and close ties with
China thanks to Whitlam (recognized them) and Hawke/Keating
(created APEC), the E Germans had to work hard to create a
vibrant economy by employing the technology Aussie brains
developed, but Brainless Aussies in government allowed to
wither, until clever foreigners snapped it up.
Can anyone name a single economic initiative of the Howard
government that isn't 'create a tax that GOUGES HUNDREDS OF
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS' so he can return $20 a week to you, and claim
to be a fucking economic genius!?
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA!
>> Great for Thalheim. Bad for Australia. These jobs could be
>> in Horsham or Goulburn. "Crystalline silicon on glass"
>> — solar technology is an Australian invention.
Jesus wept! The great ideas go overseas, the hopeless pollies STAY!
What is Howard and Costello's plan when the minerals have been dug up?
They are about as clueless as the Nauruans, who also sold Bird
Shit in huge quantities and then had no island to live on!
They sold their crap to foreigners, Howard sells it to voters.
>> It was
>> developed at the University of New South Wales. But Australia
>> lacked the determination and political will to effectively
>> commercialise the brilliant invention.
Thick as pigshit tories call this 'picking winners' and they
prefer PICKING LOSERS!
How many more BILLIONS will they piss away on subsidising
PRIVATE HEALTH FUNDS, who don't create a single fucking Hospital
bed, or propping up un-economic farmers.. OR PAYING AS BRIBES
To TYRANTS LIKE SADDAM HUSSEIN, OR FUNDING A WAR TO FIND WMD's
but they won't pick WINNERS like this, which now create thousands
of jobs for foreign workers!!!
Fer fucks sake.. they couldn't run a chook raffle.
>> In 2004 CSG Solar
>> purchased the rights. Aussie solar cells are now manufactured
>> where staff eat bockwurst during their lunch breaks, not
>> meat pies.
>>
>> This is only one example of a phenomenon that surprises
>> even long-term observers of this country. Be it the lack
>> of superfast, cheap broadband everywhere, preventing new
>> entrepreneurs from running a global business from the
>> back of Bourke and breathing new life into struggling
>> communities, or the failure to teach foreign languages
>> in every school in the country, so future managers can
>> say more than "yam cha" when they are trying to set up
>> business in booming China, Australia seems willing to
>> give away even the most obvious opportunities.
>>
>> For 10 years, some of the most senior Australian politicians
>> have called themselves "global warming sceptics". And they
>> are still proud Kyoto-bashers. So it comes as no surprise
>> that their sudden call to action fails to convince not
>> only many observers, but experts too.
Examples like this illustrate just how BACKWARD-LOOKING
Rip Van Winston and Polyp Costello are!
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." - Proverbs 29:18
Message-ID: <4706e2ed$0$12802$afc38c87@
news.optusnet.com.au>
>> A strong focus on so-called "clean coal" and the suggested
>> construction of nuclear power plants look more like
>> "greenwashing" the status quo. The solar power plant
>> planned for Victoria, the so-called "Solar Cities"
>> and the taxpayer-funded brochures asking us to switch
>> off the flat screen TV — they look suspiciously like
>> public relations exercises geared towards increasingly
>> alarmed voters. Such projects certainly are important,
>> but they are hardly the urgently needed kick-start to a
>> fundamentally new way of thinking in a society addicted
>> to plundering and wasting resources.
>>
>> Meanwhile, Australian businesses wanting to grow by being
>> part of the solution rather than the problem continue to
>> be attracted by countries such as Germany and China.
>>
If you were a bright young graduate you wouldn't stay in
a country where the leader derides educated people as 'the
academic elites) you would go to a dynamic, rapid-growth
environment where new ideas are welcomed, and rewarded!
>> According to new research, solar technology companies are
>> in the top league of Germany's businesses when measured
>> against a set of indicators such as equity ratio and return
>> on investment. Having to use cloudy Germany as an example
>> for the success of solar power policy is quite bizarre.
>>
>> Practically overnight, a government incentive system has
>> created a new industry that is now top of the world.
>> Last year, approximately 10,000 German companies were
>> developing and manufacturing components for the photovoltaic
>> and thermal solar energy market, employing 54,000 people.
>> According to industry sources, this figure will climb to
>> up to 200,000 by 2020. Thirty-five per cent of production
>> goes into export markets; 70 per cent by 2020.
54.000 full time jobs in clean, modern hi-tech, renewable,
manufacturing industry.
How many such jobs have we lost in the last ten years?
So many that Unions are weak because the industrial workforce
is shrinking, cowed, frightened and forced into noWorkChoices.
Howard likes a weak workforce, then he can kick it's leadership,
call them 'commies' (yes, he IS still living in the 1920's)
and insinuate it is criminal for them to be elected to parliament!
>> The Germans themselves are ferocious buyers of solar systems.
>> Why? Owners can sell excess power back to the grid. That's
>> how the average system is paid off within seven to eight years.
>> Yet in Australia it takes between 15 and 20 years. Despite
>> subsidies, the cost of solar power systems remains prohibitive.
>>
>> "Why doesn't every house in Australia have to have solar
>> power on the roof?" a 14-year old girl from Switzerland
>> recently asked, uncomprehending. "It would make sense."
>> Of course. The failure of the world's sunniest country
>> to create irresistible economic stimuli for the renewable
>> energy industry in order to become the world leader
>> puzzles many observers. Not least because federal and
>> state governments rightly spend billions for the
>> development of other economic opportunities.
>>
>> They certainly know that investment always flows in the
>> direction where it is welcomed. But some politicians
>> willingly allow hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs to
>> be exported. Is it due to the "comfortable, lazy security
>> of sitting on enough fossilised but dirty resources for
>> hundreds of years", as one correspondent colleague thinks? Is
>>
>> it the iron grip traditional industries have on Australian
>> politics? Or is it short-term thinking, the wish to be
>> elected at the next election, at all costs?
>>
>> Perhaps it is the triumph of ideology and ignorance over
>> reason and responsibility?
>>
>> The decision to build a pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar
>> Valley indicates that it is probably a mixture of all of
>> these elements. The damage the project and the continuing
>> logging of native forests will do to Tasmania's highly
>> valuable, sustainable environmental tourism, is an
>> opportunity lost for future generations. Tasmania's
>> reputation as a destination for business is already a
>> victim. For international journalists who visited the
>> island recently, it felt like being in a third world
>> country where major aspects of public life are corrupted
>> by an incestuous relationship between a merciless business
>> and a morally bankrupt political class.
>>
>> Even if the mill is as clean as Malcolm Turnbull asserts,
>> why would European eco-tourists fly around the globe if
>> there is even only a perceived possibility that they will
>> swim in water containing dioxin, drink wine tainted with
>> chemicals and breath air polluted with toxins? They can
>> do that at home, much cheaper, on their balcony,
>> overlooking the autobahn.
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"Well, I don't, I, I, I, I don't know. I, I mean, I, I "
- John Howard asked about his plans.
Sure John we will all just go get a coffee while
you find your mind and then make it up! B^D
http://www.geocities.com/wmds_r_us/climate_coma.htm
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"After a successful few years as a junior minister in
Malcolm Fraser's government, Howard was promoted to
treasury, where his five years in the job can only
be judged as an unmitigated failure.
Take a look at the statistics.
When Howard left the treasury in March 1983, the
budget deficit was forecast at $9.6 billion, inflation
was 11 per cent, unemployment was 10.2 per cent,
the economy was in recession with negative
0.4 per cent growth, and housing interest rates
were 13 per cent.
And, despite the 1982-83 recession being the worst
since the Great Depression, Howard still managed to
increase the federal tax take from 25.1 per cent of
GDP in 1977 to 27.5 per cent of GDP by 1982-83.
Howard then spent 13 years in opposition, during
which - when he wasn't leader himself - he spent
a lot of time conspiring against the three leaders
he served under: Andrew Peacock, John Hewson and
Alexander Downer."
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