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Our elected politicians? Political factions? Media bosses? Civil servants? Marginal Seats? Minority Parties? When we observe the antics of our political parties with a Federal election coming up it makes one wonder what has happened to the concept of a Democracy based on the wishes of the majority. What do the residents of countries . . . → Read More: Who is running this country? As seen by business: Business is in favour of population increases by any method because our GDP is so heavily reliant on retail sales. More people equal more sales. This allows a local business to grow without the same degree of effort that it would need if the population growth was next to nil. . . . → Read More: Immigration Viewpoints No wonder the poor consumer gets confused. First we are told we are in the present financial crisis because we as a nation along with others like the USA have been spending more than we have earned for some considerable time and our country has to keep borrowing off shore to support our habit . . . → Read More: Consumption Versus Investment It would appear that our Stock Market exchanges have morphed into Casinos. The original concept of financing businesses via share capital from non associated people who in return for the risk they undertook would receive dividends on an annual basis (if they were lucky) and would share in the increasing value of the company . . . → Read More: Stock Market versus Casino It is interesting when Bob Brown of the Green’s is reported as describing the actions of his minority party as representing democracy in action as he intends to use his small amount of numbers to frustrate the passage of a bill created by the majority elected government. The claim of a small minority to . . . → Read More: Democracy As Defined By The Minority Should one believe the messages they receive via the media?
Media as such has under gone considerable changes over the past twenty years both in form and participating numbers. Its life blood which is advertising has also reflected these changes and both have contributed to the growth in Public Relations/Spin Doctoring. . . . → Read More: Believing The Media Political Logic – If we increase the taxes on cigarettes by a considerable amount it will stop people smoking however if we do the same to resources it will have no effect. Only politicians can think like that. I will try to condense this subject to its core elements by sharing the following thoughts . . . → Read More: Political Taxes Most if not all taxes (or what ever name the government wants to give them at the time) is a form of social engineering. This manifests itself via a process of taking money from activities and individuals to fund infrastructure, amenities and social services such as Health, Defence, Police, and Pensions etc) for the . . . → Read More: The Politics of Global Warming For many of us it is hard to understand how breaking up a company will add value while a previous management group five years prior told us how much more money could be made by acquiring a company. Without getting into a lengthy and complicated explanation I will try to share some basic thoughts . . . → Read More: The Fosters Demerger Plan Creativity The greatest destroyer of creativity in both a company and ones personal life, is too much money. There is nothing like a shortage of money to increase the flow of creative juices where you want to achieve an objective badly enough. Trying to overcome challenges without money makes you think in a way you . . . → Read More: Too Much Money! |
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