Sure, but luckily the other measures of our economy are just as strong.zimmerman8k said:
That's sort of true, but not the way you put it.
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Australia has actually been posting a trade surplus lately...
thats because australia has less people?rasengan90 said:I am pretty sure I am British and I didn't lose WWII or commit atrocities. This is nothing at all to do with WWII, except that if we are on the subject its funny that Japan is the 2nd largest economy in the world after losing and Australia is in the 20's.
I fully acknowledge that Japan was the aggressor in the Pacific and the Japanese government has come to agree with this view. If you read the news you would know that in the last month the head of the Air Force was dismissed for saying otherwise.
I also disagree with Japanese whale hunting yet Kevin Rudd's 'call in the navy' approach is needlessly provocative. Japanese police cars aren't dicky at all, I was there less than a year ago and they seem quite normal and stylish to me.
What I mean by a lack of respect is Kevin Rudd bypassing Tokyo, the capital of Australia's largest trading partner to meet with Hu Jintao in Beijing on his first overseas trip. China is, let us remember, a one party dictatorship which deprives its people basic human rights and oppresses its minorities, Japan however is a thriving democracy. IMO he obviously has a similar uneducated opinion of modern Japan which is unbecoming of an Australian Prime Minister though expected of a Sinophile. Rudd is a commie bastard.
edit - John Howard however showed the Japanese great respect and met on a number of occasions with the Prime Ministers Junichiro Koizumi, Shinzo Abe, Yasuo Fukuda and the Emperor. My opinion is not uncommon, the Liberal party often blazes Rudd for his lack of respect towards Japan.
lol it was a jokerasengan90 said:I am pretty sure I am British and I didn't lose WWII or commit atrocities. This is nothing at all to do with WWII, except that if we are on the subject its funny that Japan is the 2nd largest economy in the world after losing and Australia is in the 20's.
I fully acknowledge that Japan was the aggressor in the Pacific and the Japanese government has come to agree with this view. If you read the news you would know that in the last month the head of the Air Force was dismissed for saying otherwise.
I also disagree with Japanese whale hunting yet Kevin Rudd's 'call in the navy' approach is needlessly provocative. Japanese police cars aren't dicky at all, I was there less than a year ago and they seem quite normal and stylish to me.
What I mean by a lack of respect is Kevin Rudd bypassing Tokyo, the capital of Australia's largest trading partner to meet with Hu Jintao in Beijing on his first overseas trip. China is, let us remember, a one party dictatorship which deprives its people basic human rights and oppresses its minorities, Japan however is a thriving democracy. IMO he obviously has a similar uneducated opinion of modern Japan which is unbecoming of an Australian Prime Minister though expected of a Sinophile. Rudd is a commie bastard.
edit - John Howard however showed the Japanese great respect and met on a number of occasions with the Prime Ministers Junichiro Koizumi, Shinzo Abe, Yasuo Fukuda and the Emperor. My opinion is not uncommon, the Liberal party often blazes Rudd for his lack of respect towards Japan.
joke dude not everything has to be as serious as the computer game you just played lolblue_chameleon said:
Oh, lol. You sure did get me there.ASNSWR127 said:
