I thought I would create a new thread to have a good old blast at how out of touch the LNP are. I reported my own post in the other thread to create this thread etc etc
On other threads I always find the debates a little strange especially when it comes to migrants. Maybe you lot should stop whinging about the need to keep tax breaks here and there and everywhere. Given the cost of housing and the income to house ratio is greater than 10 times in most cities compared to less than 4 when many here bought, no wonder why todays' kids are not having children (and thus the need to replace ageing workers with migrants so that you lot can keep your tax concessions). And just to point a few things out - you bought a house on a block back then but most kids today couldn't afford a unit in a complex an hour out of central Sydney etc etc. Oh tell me where the jobs are when you get these strange comments on Hotcopper go live in the back end of Bourke where house are cheaper bla bla bla
End of story, stop whinging or start coming up with solutions on how locals can have more kids.
And before any of you yabber, but they pay $5 for coffee bla bla bla, remember the average house price is $1 million these days and interest on that is $50,000 minimum per year. What is the average wage again these days - well it is falling against the income to house price ratio when assessed on a trend basis since the 1970s. And for the record I bought a house decades ago when interest rates were 13% - 18% as you lot like to blab bla bla bla on how hard it was for you.
The house cost me $120,000, and my income was $50,000 per year and I was expecting pay rises year on year to cover inflation increases (which happened those days unlike the last decade or so). I travelled a lot as well - because I could because I earnt just above the average wage but this is the point - it was difficult the first two years for me but after that it was easy street in paying it off. Many on here that rabbit on about 18% interest rates only talk about the first year or so because after that it was easy - my parents paid their house of on an average income with an extension in less than 5 years btw, but when mum talks to me these days she just remembers how hard the first year was etc etc.
These days the mortgage is a noose around ones neck for at least a decade given the income to house price ratio an cost of living. Most of you lot like me didin't carry HECs debts, or even had any when finishing uni etc/school, because university education was either free or cost nothing as well..
Like I said stop whinging if you can't come to solutions on how you can get locals to have more kids given the rising living costs. Back in the 70s and 80s if you were having a kid in your 30s you got very special treatment in hospitals as child birth in the 30s was relatively rare in terms of having your first child then - these days the average age for women having their first kid is in the 30s hence your low birthrate - why cost of living and house prices.
For the record, I support skilled migration - given we have skills gaps here from not enough kids coming through locally.
It is no wonder the ALP is in power, although it still isn't doing enough. The LNP problem is they have the mentality and philosophy of the aged right wingers on here - they claim also we had it tough much tougher than todays kids because interest rates were high bla bla bla, without an iota of a clue that wages and wages growth back in the 60s to 80s was sensational and cost of living and house prices compared to income was very good, and if their was pain it was only very short term pain only. The LNP will be in the wilderness for a decade until the aged in the party drop of the perch and they are replaced with members who have a clue.
I love reading the Hotcopper political forum at times - it just reminds me just how out of touch the aged LNP voters are. Hope you convince the party to move further to the right - a decade plus of opposition is what they deserve, and that isn't saying much given the ALP are not that great either. But the young - i.e. those who would have kids if they could afford it - see them a better choice than the LNP rabble sitting in the Parliament. I would like to have grandchildren one day too, or at least more than one LOL. Until then migrants will keep covering skills gaps here. Enjoy the rant.
If the LNP can't understand how they lost all those blue LP seats in Sydney they have no hope of ever been a party again. It has also happened at State level - just look at how many blue ribbon seats have been lost even in State elections.
