Quigs
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'ere Spide, I'll just post the starting few paragraphs...
First the reality: This is now the richest country in the world. According to Credit Suisse Research Institute's most recent Global Wealth Report, the median wealth of Australians now is well over $200,000, just ahead of Switzerland and about four times that of the United States. Other statistics show we are building ourselves the largest new houses in the world, now about 10 per cent bigger than America's, twice the European average and almost three times bigger than Britain's. Our government debt is low, so is our
unemployment rate, and our wages are high and growing, steadily and in a controlled way. We not only drip with material things, we are among the healthiest, longest-lived, least corrupt and best educated people in the world.
In comparison with almost anywhere else - and all the more obviously as most other developed countries have hit economic hard times - Australians lead blessed lives. The United Nations Human Development Index, which factors in life
expectancy, educational attainment and economic measures, placed us second in the world in 2011, after Norway. If only the index factored in weather and sporting achievement, we'd be on top of the heap
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Yeppers we are very lucky Aus-tralyuns. Having our cards fall the way they did. I could just imagine if things were so different for both of us and there were you and I sitting in the bow of a small overcrowded boat heading to the promised land arguing about the record cost of living rises.
First the reality: This is now the richest country in the world. According to Credit Suisse Research Institute's most recent Global Wealth Report, the median wealth of Australians now is well over $200,000, just ahead of Switzerland and about four times that of the United States. Other statistics show we are building ourselves the largest new houses in the world, now about 10 per cent bigger than America's, twice the European average and almost three times bigger than Britain's. Our government debt is low, so is our
unemployment rate, and our wages are high and growing, steadily and in a controlled way. We not only drip with material things, we are among the healthiest, longest-lived, least corrupt and best educated people in the world.
In comparison with almost anywhere else - and all the more obviously as most other developed countries have hit economic hard times - Australians lead blessed lives. The United Nations Human Development Index, which factors in life
expectancy, educational attainment and economic measures, placed us second in the world in 2011, after Norway. If only the index factored in weather and sporting achievement, we'd be on top of the heap
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Yeppers we are very lucky Aus-tralyuns. Having our cards fall the way they did. I could just imagine if things were so different for both of us and there were you and I sitting in the bow of a small overcrowded boat heading to the promised land arguing about the record cost of living rises.
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