Worlds richest woman makes case for 2 dollar a day pay.

[MysticSang'ha]

Silence, mere woman of short stature! Your revolting attempt to stem the flow of
that luscious rubicund krovy serves Me not. Let the venom fly, & reason die!

This outta be fun.

Bring it, Scratch. :ko:

 

[Alceste]

Greetings, new guy!
I must warn you though....you've stepped into a feeding frenzy. No objective analysis will intrude once they taste rich Aussie blood.
They'll just turn on you. I expect that Sunstone will make fun of your name by calling you a "poe"......oh, he already did. Dang he's quick!

On another thread about lefties having "hate" for the successful, I thought that was an exaggeration. But reviewing this & other threads
lately, it seems that there really is a violent hatred for the wealthy. And if some gal isn't completely evil, they'll make up enuf factoids to
fill in the blanks.

Of course it's completely inconceivable to you that peyote hate her because of what she says rather than what her bank statement says. You might want to get that blind spot looked at.

Did you even read my links to information about mining in Africa? I would not be at all surprised to discover this greedy cow actually owns some of those mines herself. Her operations are global. There are plenty of good reasons to be outraged by her statement.

FYI, I really like Warren Buffet, and he's way richer than this... specimen.

 

[Revoltingest]

Of course it's completely inconceivable to you that peyote hate her because of what she says rather than what her bank statement says.

Huh? Why on Earth would a cactus hate her?

Peyote is a civil & peace loving plant.

 

[Alceste]

Huh? Why on Earth would a cactus hate her?

Peyote is an civil & peace loving plant.

Lol, my auto-correct hates the word "people". That's my first peyote. Usually I get puerile.

 

[Revoltingest]

Usually I get puerile.

I won't go there.
(Too easy.)

 

[Alceste]

I won't go there.
(Too easy.)

Good thing it only comes out that way when I'm talking about other people. Otherwise I'd get paranoid.

 

[dust1n]

successful, I thought that was an exaggeration. But reviewing this & other threads
lately, it seems that there really is a violent hatred for the wealthy. And if some gal isn't completely evil, they'll make up enuf factoids to
fill in the blanks.

A particular factoid of mine (pun intended) you are referring to? If so, which one of them did I make up?

 

[Revoltingest]

A particular factoid of mine (pun intended) you are referring to? If so, which one of them did I make up?

Note that I was referring to this & other threads....not your post.
You're one of the more civil & friendly guys around here.

 

[dust1n]

I wouldn't refer to you that way.
You're one of the more civil & friendly guys around here.

Thanks for the clarification. People tend to jumble me into the leftist side, so I never know if such references to the left are applying to me or not.

 

[Revoltingest]

Thanks for the clarification. People tend to jumble me into the leftist side, so I never know if such references to the left are applying to me or not.

Being lefty is OK with me, so I don't want to make the peaceful & rational ones feel dissed.....just the mean ones.
After all, we libertarians swing leftish in some areas, & I can even support socialistic schemes such as single payer health care over Obama's nightmare.
(One ought to be open to the lesser of two evils argument.)

 

[dust1n]

I like how for the country of Georgia it shows the old flag for the U.S. state of Georgia.

Well you know how similar they look. They even have two of the same colors!

 

[dust1n]

Being lefty is OK with me, so I don't want to make the peaceful & rational ones feel dissed.....just the mean ones.
After all, we libertarians swing leftish in some areas, & I can even support socialistic schemes such as single payer health care over Obama's nightmare.
(One ought to be open to the lesser of two evils argument.)

We'd agree in that area, though I tend to avoid any political labels including left in my area. If I had to choose one, I'd take Politically Prudent.

 

[Alceste]

Here's another completely valid reason for my utter contempt, quite apart from Rinehart's bank balance.

Gina Rinehart pens 'universe's worst poem' - Telegraph

She has no more compassion for the English language than she does for African miners.

 

[Meow Mix]

Gina Rinehart, world's richest woman, makes case for $2-a-day pay - latimes.com

What are your thoughts on this?

Did you notice that someone commented on that page:

This rich piece of crap who thinks that western workers should make two dollars a day when she INHERITED a 16 billion dollar fortune should have all that money taken away and be given a two dollar an hour job. What a fat ugly low life. she should be beaten with her own fat.

I just wanted to bring that comment to everyone's attention.

For no reason.

Yyyyep.

 

[dust1n]

AUSTRALIA'S largest miners, already reeling from a slowdown in China and plunging commodity prices, have warned of further job cuts, project deferrals and investment dollars moving offshore after the Queensland government increased royalties on coal production.

The hike, announced in yesterday's state budget, was larger than expected and prompted a chorus of complaints from an industry already upset over the federal Labor government's resources policy and now flummoxed by a new impost from a conservative state government.


"Today's royalty increase created the perfect storm for Queensland coal producers when combined with the high foreign exchange rate, lower commodity prices and the introduction of the carbon tax," said Seamus French, the chief executive of Anglo American's metallurgical coal business.


"In the short term it will result in job losses, and in the long term it will significantly disadvantage Queensland against alternative supply regions such as Canada and Mozambique, which enjoy both lower costs and lower tax regimes."


Rio Tinto Coal Australia managing director Bill Champion said the global miner was "shocked, surprised and very disappointed" by the size of the royalty increase.


"This increase will further endanger jobs and investment in the coal industry, at both existing mines and new projects," he said.


"Their decision to increase royalties in this way flies in the face of the efforts being made by mining companies to improve the competitiveness of their operations by reducing costs."


The royalty increases by the Campbell Newman-led Liberal National Party government are forecast to generate an extra $1.6 billion over the next four years. It will see a jump from 10 per cent to 12.5 per cent for every tonne of coal sold between $100 and $150. Coal sold for more than that price will attract a 15 per cent royalty.


The spot price of coal has fallen to near three-year lows and is now trading at about $US155 a tonne, which is a drop of more than 50 per cent from prices seen early last year in the aftermath of the Queensland floods.


The falling price and rising costs have seen Queensland coalminers slash thousands of jobs, shelve expansion plans and shut down mines. Australia's two largest coalminers, Xstrata and BHP Billiton, both announced job cuts this week, with BHP shutting its second coalmine this year.


BHP, the world's largest miner, said the new royalty increase would now be factored into its extensive cost review of its coal business, designed in response to increasing costs, a high dollar and falling commodity prices.


"We made it clear to the Queensland government that in the current environment any additional taxation impost will directly impact the profitability of our current operations and will affect business decisions on capital growth allocations in the state," a spokesman said.


"Queensland already had one of the world's highest comparable coal royalty regimes . . . any additional royalty impost will directly impact the profitability of our existing operations, and will affect future business decisions regarding growth capital allocation."


Xstrata, which announced 600 job cuts from its Australian coal operations on Monday, said a significant portion of the Australian thermal and coking coal industry was losing money at current prices.

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1.6 Billion in tax revenues? So this tax increase, which cost the mining industry 1.6 billion from billions and billions in profit have caused mining companies to seek mining elsewhere? Seems to me that the corporations would have no problem covering the costs of said taxes, but instead they seem to be trying to pass off the costs to producers and suppliers instead of absorbing it. And these people are concerned with Australian citizens?

It seems to me absorbing said costs would be more profitable in the long run, as opposed to cutting production and opening new facilities elsewhere so that prices can be lowered in a very short-term mode of thinking. And also, you wouldn't have to vilify yourself and your company to Australia, also including attempts to lobby the government, lower minimum wages, take over media companies to prevent negative articles being written, give tickets to Australian politicians to watch Indian weddings, and make poorly articulated speeches on YouTube that are disliked to liked by 50:1.

Instead, planning to move operations to Africa when things like this are occurring?:

DRIEFONTEIN, South Africa -- In a speech punctuated by the cheers of thousands of miners and the blowing of whistles and vuvuzelas, firebrand politician Julius Malema called Tuesday for a national strike in all of South Africa's mines, encouraging the escalation of labor unrest that has already halted production at two platinum and gold mines.


Some 60 miles (100 kilometers) away, 8,000 more striking miners and their followers, shadowed by police in armored cars and helicopters, marched to a hospital to see some of the 190 miners who say they were beaten and tortured in police custody. A mining company security guard wearing a bulletproof vest told reporters the patients had been evacuated for safety reasons.


A phalanx of police and armored cars blocked marchers from the hospital.


The scene in Marikana, northwest of Johannesburg, was peaceful but tense, though strikers are threatening to kill anyone who goes to work. Miner unrest has become a central issue in South Africa since police shot and killed 34 striking miners and wounded 78 on Aug. 16 at Lonmin PLC's platinum mine at Marikana.


On Tuesday, journalists found the body of another murdered man at Marikana, with deep gashes to the back of the neck. Police confirmed a body was found near a granite hill where strikers normally gather.


That raises the toll from violence at Lonmin's mine to 45, including 10 people killed in the days before the police shootings – two police officers have been hacked to death by strikers, two mine security guards burned alive in their car and six shop stewards of the National Union of Mineworkers.


Lonmin said in a statement Tuesday that only 3 percent of workers had shown up.
"Lonmin condemns the ongoing intimidation and threats to life and property," the London-registered company said. "The continuing efforts of a minority to keep the mine closed through threats of violence now pose a real and significant threat to jobs."


Malema told striking miners at a gold mine near Driefontein that this nation's critically important mining industry should be stopped in its tracks to force the removal of the leadership of the National Union of Mineworkers, which is cozy with the power elite including South African President Jacob Zuma, Malema's archenemy.
"There must be a national strike. They have been stealing this gold from you. Now it is your turn. You want your piece of gold. These people are making billions from these mines," Malema said.


He was cheered by thousands of strikers who gathered in a soccer field at the west section of Gold Fields International's KDC gold mine, carrying traditional sticks and blowing on vuvuzelas, plastic horns that the world came to know during the 2010 soccer World Cup.


Malema led the miners in chants of "Kill the boer," a song from the anti-apartheid struggle referring to white farmers. Malema was expelled from the ruling African National Congress earlier this year for sowing disunity and failing to accept party discipline. Party leaders had criticized Malema, a former leader of the ANC's youth wing, for singing "Kill the boer."


Apartheid, or racist white rule, ended in 1994 with South Africa's first all-race elections. Today, the struggle is not shaping up as white versus black but as the marginalized lashing out largely at the small black elite that has emerged in this mineral-rich country.


Miners at Marikana, some wielding machetes, sang: "Tell Zuma to stop killing us," a reference to the Aug. 16 shootings by police.


The black president has been the focus of much of the miners' ire.


"He must do what he promised to do," said Aaron Thabili, a miner who supports his wife and three children with a take-home salary of 4,000 rand ($487) per month. "He knows what he promised the people of South Africa...jobs, a better life, better salaries. And we have got the right to take (vote) him out if he does nothing for us."


Victor Botsane, a loader driver at Gold Fields, said he is striking for better pay, even though that means he earns no salary each day he's off the job.


"If we don't work we know we aren't going to get paid," he said. "But they aren't going to get any profits."

Julius Malema, South Africa Politician, Urges National Mine Strike

Do people really think that Africans are going to allow themselves to be oppressed by multinationals forever?

 

[paarsurrey]

"embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores
To benefit from the export of our minerals and ores
The world's poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fate
Our nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late"

I agree with the above verses of Gina Rinehart's poem.

 

[Revoltingest]

"embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores
To benefit from the export of our minerals and ores
The world's poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fate
Our nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late"

I agree with the above verses of Gina Rinehart's poem.

She should hire me to write limericks for her though.

 

[Alceste]

She should hire me to write limericks for her though.

Do you work for $2 a day?

 

[Alceste]

"embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores
To benefit from the export of our minerals and ores
The world's poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fate
Our nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late"

I agree with the above verses of Gina Rinehart's poem.

I don't care what she's saying, I can not agree with poetry this bad.

 

[Revoltingest]

Do you work for $2 a day?

Even less than that.