Once again I'd like to point you at an opinion piece I've found in one of the papers. I think it casts light on both manufacturing and politics and their inter-connectedness in Australia.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/manufactured-crisis-20120428-1xro9.html
I know that some of the opinions in the article are counter to postings I've made previously on this blog. Especially in relation to the car industry. However if you're unwilling to accept a different point of view and/or perhaps change your own view, will you ever grow as a person?
This opinion is even more poignant given the diabolical nature of Australia's current parliament and the ruling party's head-in-the-sand attitudes to "workers". Marxism is dead people.
Thanks for the article, Bushy. I tend to agree with most of what Berg is saying. He's an interesting guy - I spoke to him last year and apparently he's the weird lefty at the IPA, which obviously has strong free-market basis for determining what a "lefty" is, but there you have it.
ReplyDeleteThe war scenario is the classic "yeah, but what if..." in the manufacturing debate. Again, I'm with Berg. If the US or India or China decide they're going to invade to take our resources, no amount of converted Toyota plants is going to save us!!