Thread: The Flood of Asian Imports

How old are your parents Rod?Just to be born in 1930 they would be 80 now and to remember it?

Aussie
Dad was a 1914 vintage while Mum was 1922. Mum went first in1994 at 72 years and Dad went on to outlive his twin brother by about 18 months and died at 93 in 2007. both had demintia for a numberof years before their respective deaths. I am a 54 model, but as I said their thrifyness was contagious
Rod

Originally Posted by chambezio

Aussie
Dad was a 1914 vintage while Mum was 1922. Mum went first in1994 at 72 years and Dad went on to outlive his twin brother by about 18 months and died at 93 in 2007. both had demintia for a numberof years before their respective deaths. I am a 54 model, but as I said their thrifyness was contagious
Rod

Sorry about that.
I thought you meant they were both still around.Once again very sorry

chambezio and aussie
I was born in 1931 on the day the government busses went off the road,( my dad was a bus driver)
If you wanted a job to feed your kids, the best chance on offer was to line up on a ditch digging site, the line was shuffling slowly forward all the time.
At the front of the line sat the foreman with a clipboard on his lap taking names and addresses, by his side were several burly "bouncer" type blokes. once having signed up for a start you waited till someone in the trench looked up, or paused to wipe the sweat from his brow, at which the foreman would jump up point to the man in question and yell "getchyourtime" upon which the unfortunate worker would join another line-up where the paymaster was doling out such monies as he had been able to earn while he had the strength to shovel without pause.
By this painful process a man with 3 kids could feed them such luxuries as bread and dripping with jam and a cup of milk.
That's what my old man did until he was lucky enough to score a job with an opportunistic bus company which took over some of the government bus routes.
This is what a man did to raise his family when things got tough.

Maybe this is how the aussie became famous in the trenches at gallipoli .
Hopefully this kind of problem will not arise again for future generations of aussies
Hopefully future generations of politicians can spare the time from their overseas meanderings to do something about the sellout of australian jobs, produce, ideas, and aspirations to overseas interests with thought for the next generation rather than the next election
Witch1