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Old 23-03-2012, 11:57 AM   #8
flappist
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Default Re: $A=$US - Are we getting ripped off?

Next time all you jetseters are over in USA/Europe have a quick talk with a shop worker.

Ask them about their 4 weeks holiday with 17.5% loading, their 9% super, their sickies, their free hospital cover, their workers comp, their penalty rates and all the other the other things that Australian workers take for granted.

Then ask them what would happen if they lost their job, their dole, their government paid retraining, their squillions of other benefits etc.

The price of everything in Australia including importing would be a lot lower if we were all not so grossly overpaid and nannied compared to almost all the rest of the world.
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