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To: elmatador who wrote (1377)	10/22/2005 5:59:46 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 218645

<People who could drive but won't because the price dissuade them to do so, is repressed demand. I have a problem with your logic because the way you look at it there's no unemployment since jobs are matching applicants.> I have repressed demand for a Lexus, a Cessna Citation a swanky CDMA cyberphone and all the megabytes I feel like using. Everything priced above zero is in short supply. There is simply not enough of it to go around. There is a labour shortage in New Zealand - employers are whining about lack of the right people. I ask them whether they have tried offering $100 an hour. They haven't. They want to have skilled workers at $10 an hour. You are right, there is no unemployment - the unemployed in New Zealand have got jobs. They do nothing for the government. It's a really cushy number. No working hours per week and they get about $10,000 a year, plus other perks if they have children, special needs, blah blah blah. Those who say they are unemployed are really just wanting to own a Lexus without doing the work. Mqurice