Thursday 18 October 2007

Adventures in Rockingham II

Had a little chat with the infamous courier in our office today - I've blogged on him before.
This guy's the one that said Africa will be the economic powerhouse of the world in ten years time.
Anyway, knowing full well whatever he said would be outrageous, I instigated a political comment with him today.
According to him, the main problem with national security is that Australia needs more overseas investment (!).
He said if more companies from overseas invested in Australia, then terrorists wouldn't attack us becuase the businesses around the world who have investment interests here would dissuade them from doing so. Riiiight....
Oh, and he said we needed to watch China. Apparently, as China becomes more involved in Australia, they will send more Chinese workers here, who will be paid a mix of Australian and Chinese wages and will send the economy tumbling into chaos.

I asked him to support his arguments with evidence or, at least some economic knowledge.
But no, he couldn't of course. That's because he gets all his info from commercial AM radio stations.
The worst part is this guy has as much of a right to vote as you and I...

5 comments:

Dave said...

Hey Dave! Don't be too tough on him... the guy may be right! Who knows? - Dave.

Dave said...

He's not. Australia has plenty of overseas investment, and how many terrorist organisations do you know that bend to the will of business interests in foreign countries? If that was the case why attack one of the biggest corporate/economic headquarters in the world in the World Trade Centre?

Dave said...

I was joking....

Dave

Dave said...

My apologies Dave. I'll get off my high horse now. :)

Dave said...

No problem. Dave.