Re: Taken For A Ride

["Richo" <richardc@tpg.com.au>]

I'm not sure i should respond to this but here goes...

If you'd lived in other countries - Japan for instance - they wouldn't have
let you live like that - the employer - in cohoots with the government would
have told you where to live. The company would have given you everything you
needed and you would have done what you were told. Sure you wouldn't like
that, neither would i, but how else do you fit 100 million people on to four
small islands? In recognition of the Japanese people having to put up with
all this meddling- -the Japanese govt gave them the best damned rail system
you will ever see.

We had the "choice" to spread out - so we did. But it was a choice.

Rod <comtrain@mpx.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> Richo <richardc@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
> 37f09b02@dnews.tpgi.com.au">news:37f09b02@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> > Fiction hey?
> The post WWII land use planning was and is a political issue, manipulated
by
> > pollies for short-term gain. Their cronies in building and real estate,
> the
> > gullible working class who buy on the outskirts and the rail unions who
> dug
> > their own graves can also be thanked for the mess we are in.
> >
> SNIPPED>
> > > David McLoughlin
> > > Auckland New Zealand
> >
> >
> >
> Are you suggesting that we should all live in the Big Smoke ?
> Sorry, Mate but over here our cities are choked with petrol and industrial
> fumes, few would want to live and work in it.
> I have been forced by employment options, to work in Melbourne, for more
> than 20 years. I chose not to live in Melbourne. and never visited it to
> shop or for entertainment, ever.
> My family went to school in the suburbs [outer] and none of us found the
> need to visit the Big Smoke.
> I have now returned home to the bush, these last few years, and have only
> returned to the 'smoke' on occasions I coukld find no excuse to avoid,
about
> 4 times.
> You have heard about our Minister for [un] employment Reith, I presume?
> He is a face that has always existed in Conservative Australia, strangely
> revealed by the
> current powers, but always has been there.
> I am a Blue Collar worker, I have a  High School Year 10 Qualification,
> gained in 1963. I am a qualified Accountant, but chose to Drive Trains
> [Gunzel?]
> In 1954, my Father ,also a Train Driver, bought his first car, and started
> thinking about owning a house. We did not have a phone, TV's did not
exist,
> and we went to Church 2 miles away on little seats attached to the rear of
> our Parents bikes.
> We had days out, in Furniture Vans, converted into Buses.
> WE had a good life, I  never got to know my Dad, because to get the Car
and
> the House he worked 3 jobs. He installed Blinds, and repaired Cars as well
> as his Railway Job.
> His working conditions were lousy, as was his pay .
>     I am a Public Servant [even though the Yanks may own V/Line now] I do
a
> damn good job, getting up at all hours, working average 10 hour days,
> without regular meal breaks, unhealthy sleeping habits, and a much reduced
> social life. My children don't really know me, but I need only work one
job
> to survive, unlike my Dad.
> I own my own house, have 2 Cars, a Caravan , Boat and an investment in
> Queensland.
> I earn more than $50, 000 a year, I spend all I earn, nothing in the Bank,
> but I pay for Top MediBank, Have Superannuation and Investments which will
> enable me to retire and live comfortably when I retire in the next few
> years.
> The Point!!!!
> Reith and his like never let me do all this! They fought tooth and nail to
> stop me having a decent life, they still are.
> I GOT THIS FOR MYSELF!!   READ MY LIPS....
>
> I did not do it on my own, but I was forced [kicking and screaming, I
might
> add] to join a union, and this organisation of people all got together and
> forced the Reiths of this world to cave in.
> I have a good life now, but I work very hard for it. You , even if you
dont
> belong to a Union, are benifiting by my actions. All wages improve when we
> lift our   wages, otherwise the local
> Bank Manager or Policeman would still be on $15000 a year...Believe me I
am
> right.
> My Union has been off the boil for some 10 years or so now, I have not had
a
> pay rise for at least 3 years and thost that were recieved were cost of
> living adjustments, and were mostly eaten up in Tax and Inflation.
> Reith will have my Children back in my Fathers Day soon enough!
>  Is that what you want?
> Rod
>
>




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