tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post7802769589378056751..comments2023-11-05T23:07:01.842+11:00Comments on Grog's Gamut: GDP, Inflation, Unemployment: A Unique 3 of a kind for the March 2012 QuarterGreg Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04956402439870441083noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-35778262098231637462012-06-12T19:35:38.997+10:002012-06-12T19:35:38.997+10:00I left school in 1978, back then a school certific...I left school in 1978, back then a school certificate was not an award for idiocy.<br />The inflation and unemployment rate was 10 percent back when working a day a fortnight was not counted as employment.<br />There were no apprenticeships for life or money, only for relatives, if you know what I mean.<br />In 82 we got the accord and wage restraint, then the 87 crash and the banana republic.<br />The gst and the tax cuts that cruelly left so many out of its balancing effect.<br />The 17 percent mortgage where 60 percent of my gross was swallowed.<br />The open market reforms that said all victims could suit themselves and shop around now that self regulation was the way to go.<br />Would someone tell me, now that i am 5 years away from the age my father had a stroke, what good superannuation is , if left in the hands of an unregulated private sector.<br />I could have paid my house off with those funds that government has put into unseen hands.<br />It really is my money that the private market aristocracy has seemingly put on overinflated horses.hoboturkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15383354213732884610noreply@blogger.com