It is reported today that the recipient of inherited wealth, billionaire mining magnate Gina Reinhart, is calling for Australian workers to be competitive with Africans.
“Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, has urged Australia to become more competitive, warning Africa is a cheaper investment option, with workers willing to take jobs for less than $2 per day,” says one report.
“Ms Rinehart says in a video presentation there is unarguable evidence Australia is becoming too expensive for multinational companies that are running rulers over their pipeline investments and comparing them to options around the globe.”
Now there’s something for a bleeding heart to really haemorrhage over: the sad sight of multinational corporations fretting over their profitability.
Reinhart may as well suggest outright slavery if she really expects workers in Australia to compete with poverty-stricken workers in Africa.
Maybe competing with them will also require any striking Australian workers to accept being murdered in cold blood Sharpeville-style - and then charged with murder for deliberately getting their bodies struck by bullets from an innocent police force.
We can expect such deranged right-wing rantings from Reinhart. Wealth was not all she inherited from Daddy.
Just as selfish and ignorant are the comments of Adelaide engineering services and property developer Mark Dayman.
The said gentleman named “government regulation, taxation regimes and the sheer size of government as inhibitors to business opportunities in the state.”
“The ideas are to make government smaller, to outsource things to business sectors and not-for-profit organisations that can deliver services that government (currently) deliver,” he said.
So, anything done by government that could potentially return a profit to private business, as opposed to general revenue, should be handed over to business; any service provided to the community by government at a cost currently covered by state taxes and charges should be given to charities and volunteers.
In this way, this miserly bastard believes, “you can encourage businesses here as a lower cost centre.”
Well damn you man, just come out and say it - scrap welfare and services and bring back slavery!
(Just to make this Dayman more attractive to the general population, let it be known that he is heavily involved in coal seam gas extraction….mongrel!)
This long-dead German guy once said that capitalism continually forced the working class to lower its living standards to that of one level mass of broken wretches.
Apologists for capitalism countered that capitalism was a system that spread wealth to all.
Reinhart and Dayman are on the side of Karl Marx on that one!
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