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And his soldiers just get a flag-drapped coffin as they come off the plane.

Good questions, but I think the fiorst to be answwered is: Who owns them? It seems to me that they are owned by a couple of American super companies. What happens if the US empire collapses? Already Europe is creating it own digital monetery transfer system that will reduce reliance on Visa and Master Card. What would happen to global communication if the US companies collapse? Tjhe world is so integrated into the Internet that one can hardly do anything without interacting with it. That's my possible red herring thrown into the discussion, but would the next person deal with Nomad's points, please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9govup-IG3c

Then you run this load over roads that are basically tamped-down dirt covered byt a layer of stones glued together with tar.

Heavy vehicle mass limits are set for safety and to minimise the impact on roads and infrastructure, to provide for continued productivity. The defining limit to a vehicle's gross mass is the load limit on an axle. That limit basically boils down to how many tyres are attached to an axle, either one or two tyres per side

Well, we all know that you are rust free. Yoiu've told us many times already.

Therein lies the rub.

Do you recall the character in Supeman comics called Mister Mxyzptlk ? The character is a magical imp from the fifth dimension. Tricking him into saying or spelling his name backwards—Kltpzyxm (pronounced keltipzixum)—sends him away from Earth and back to his home dimension for at least ninety days.

What you are forgetting is that the money being sent overseas has already been taxed here, and it is the property of the person sending it. The owner can do whatever he wishes with his property. Just think how much money gamblers send into the coffers of bookmakers. My reason for posting that information was simply to point to something that we have never thought about. Is the practice good or bad? It is good in that it must make lives better in the destination country. It is bad because it diminishes the amount of money available to support Australia's local small businesses.

And that's not a bribe?

Those are what we expect from international trade. They are not related to the immigration question. True. They do. Those people leave money in the local economy by spending They are not the ones sending money 'back home'. The ones who send the money back home are the ones who are working here because the amount of money they can earn is far greater than what they can earn in their country of origin. Instead of spending what money is left over after what it costs to live (food, rent, transport, entertainment, goods and services) some is sent out of the country. Have you ever heard of a native born Australian sending money on a regular basis? (OK I don't count contributions to Save the Children etc.)

Here's something that is not considered in the immigration debate. Money that leaves the local economy through transfers by immigrants to families in their country of origin. In this video, (which I admit I have not fact checked, or found the original source) it is claimed that in one year $38 billion dollars left the local economy through transfer to "the old country". First thing I need to say that this money was, hopefully, money available after wages and salaries of the senders had been taxed under the PAYE method. So the sender had the right do do with the money anything he desired. Secondly, this money would have been sent digitally since it is illegal to take a large number of banknotes out of the country. So what's wrong with this? Basically it means that the local economy lost the use of that amount of credit. For a start, if it had been spent here, local businesses would have benefitted from the increase in their line of trade. Increase local business and you increase demand for goods and services and create employment. Also, 10% would have gone back to Treaasury as GST. Does this transfer of money actually occur? I had contact with Phillipino carers working after Mum when she was alive. The were sending money back 'home' to support family. There are a lot of Chinese workers in the construction industry, and what about trolley boys and Uber drivers?

I don't think our system of preferential voting is the fault. The fault with modern elections is the contributions made to Parties by organisations. Dose an organisation have a franchise to vote? Is an organisation a person? We are coming to the conclusion that donations to political parties by organisations are bribes - a rose by any other name.

There's a De Haviland Dragon Rapide that went down in WWII still undiscovered out there. Just think of the Southern Cloud as another example of 'lost in the bush'.

You'll have to avoid a barber for a few months while your hair grows long enough to comb over the big round bit.