"How is the economic situation in your Country"

Hello auminesweeper

Yes I am in Australia. Sadly the names have changed but it is still business as usual for protected species in N.S.W at least the events with the police buildings etc was last year and now. Unfortunately the checks and balances are not in place to prevent corruption in political system itself.

As for Queensland I do not know what the current status there. It has been cleaned up a lot up there. there was connection with the mafia in Griffith who organized a hit on on a top Canberra police commissioner in the late 1980's. The assassin for that was found in the Brisbane river with bullet holes in him traced back to a police revolver. Apparent some one did not want him to turn state evidence.

Hows the state of affairs in the UK have there been much redundancies? Is the economy turning round.

Hardluck

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From the us but in ny state. The episode with our Govenor happened about 2 years ago  in albany our state capital also where the governors mansion is located. He spent 100's of thousands of dollars on all sorts of bs the solicitation of hookers,escourting them around town and political conventions on tax payer $. well 1 of his associates finally sniched and brought it all out in the open. The governors wife pretty much admitted she new all along but just wasnt willing to accept the facts and ultimately stayed with him. They brough in the individual that was next on the totem his{Spitzer's} running mate {Patterson} who was neither qualified or prepared to pick up all the shattered peices after Spitzer was impeeched. Patterson finished out his term in which all sorts of new scandle filled news stations/papers daily about a couple wife beaters on his team and how he supressed info. even payed people to go away! Local gov. officials had somesort of parking ticket scheme where they had dispersed some sort of stickers to place in there windows and some how became exempt from being ticketed.  roughly 3/4 of our state parks last summer were shut down claiming there wasnt enough money to keep things properly maintained.there saying our unemployment rate is about 10% but I think its really worse with really nothing promising in site for economical stimulation. Our farm Industry is going down the toilet gas is constantly on the rise but of course we should have known someone was going to have to pay for bp's disaster! The most troubleing thing really is that were burning through all our natural resources with no promising sollutions in site! Throughout the history of man there will forever be a scwabble over someones political agenda. What a wonderful world it would be if everyone everywhere could focus globally, not sure I will live to see the day.

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US economy is slower than molasses due the funds being used in banking and not in industry... The country has lost it's manufacturing base is so dependent on imports its frightening. We cannot even produce steel in quantity anymore as they've close all the major facilities down.  No one is willing to invest in the long term future, business models are all 3 years or less so major capital is never employed in anything that has long term impact.  We can't even build high speed rail here because there's no money for it. State's are all going into the red and the middle class is so overbrudened with taxes from state and local governments that many people are downsizing out of homes into apartments. So many lost their lifes investments in 2008 that you elderly people working at every odd job around... People saved little and as such now have no choice but to work or live indigent. IT's a sad thing but the American dream is all but destroyed.

Only a world wide thing will ever spur our politicians into actions and only if a lot of manpower is once again employed will we ever see boom days again...

I'm 60+ and can tell you I am afraid of us selling out the US to China... Our oil gluttony is also setting us up for a financial fall...   Wish some one would invent Mr. Fusion now, where is Doc Brown when you need him???

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When you asked about whats going on over here i wrote quite a long statement listing all sorts of things, i posted it 3x the it disappeared of my computer ,never to be seen again, go figure it out, i did it all the same way and nothing? but i'll try again

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Yeah' I've got a bit of work coming up in the future just in time for the bills, things are very quite for everyone here,i don't work in london (the city) because its not a viable prospect for me,and many others it's just the sign of the times mate

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