And no one was pointing the finger at the water board were they, it was all about the rail.  And then we were told the money that was allocated to maintain the railway would be better spent on the roads.  

okay so production - I have seen more than one person go on Shark Tank and say they are making a profit and are proud to say they are manufacturing in the US.  The Sharks heads start shaking.  The dollars will not roll.  And they are blunt about it - you will never make a big profit if you don't restructure to manufacture overseas, they admonish.

Remember the push to get Australians to manufacture at home - keep our country strong.  It was enthusiastically embraced.  Well that became a certification thing and we're left to wonder were those Australian Made labels manufactured in China?

I don't want an air conditioner, don't need it with the sea breeze.  The dishwasher was already here, I would never have installed it but I have to admit I like it and no longer believe I can clean dishes without it.  You forgot to add the solar panels with inverter and battery or the plastic rainwater tank - actually I think those tanks might be manufactured here.  Then there's my coffee machine, love my coffee machine, well not at the moment as yet again it needs replacing.  My 6 cylinder petrol car.  That's a Ford, 2006.  Ford factory in Australia closed 1994 but it's still very good quality, lots of steel, an old fashioned car.  I love it, I don't do much driving at all these days but grateful to have it when I do.

Oh and my solar hot water tank.  well it's endless isn't it as you say.  A steady stream of pillaged earth for a steady stream of manufactured goods of ever greater numbers, new features - but manufactured with diminishing quality and durability.

I would much more happily have a much more modest number of goods and a bit of happiness all round.  Such a hippy I know.  

My question was what's inspiring about making Chinese businessmen even richer.  We know they do it by pillaging their people and their country.

Really my take is that it is that drive for super wealth that has caused the bulk of destruction and poverty all over the world.

And I do think many of us would be happy with sticking to a modest amount of wealth.  Me, I find super wealth super yucky.  I am distressed by poverty.

Like us all I was born as a consequence of an ongoing circumstance - one among billions.  tbh I don't even feel guilty for liking the dishwasher.

I don't expect the rail line not to happen, I don't even want to try and fight it, but it doesn't change how I feel about that rail line.  I know it's not the first outrageous grab and I know it's not the last but somehow I am feeling it, maybe because I live under Mt Chincogan which is on the Range - it feels like a desecration of country, a bite too far, a super bite.