Chez Johnson's Blog

Who knows what this year will bring !!!!

Some say doom and gloom, some speculate but wont give a view, and of course others like me want to be positive...

Isn't it about time prices stopped skyrocketing, being overpriced, interest rates coming down, fuel price lowering - if this is doom and gloom - I hate to think what would be worse.

We all know house prices are or were getting way beyond the average persons budget, hopefully prices will keep dropping to an acceptable level where the Great Australian Dream of owning your own home is not absolutely out of reach.

Share Market worst in many, many years !!! Really, for the mum and dad investors, shares are long term investments either for retirement or for their children's future. So maybe you have lost some money NOW, wait for another 5, 10, 15 or 20 years - they are going to be worth more.

Interest Rates - finally a bit of relief, from what I am to believe, the Reserve Bank takes its figures from peoples spending and inflation etc. Considering only about a quarter to a half of the Australian population has a Mortgage, we were the one's suffering from the high interest rates, but in my opinion it was the other half to 3/4 of the Australian population doing the spending - correct me if I am wrong.

Fuel Prices lowering - Yay, I think we all need to have a party !!! Shame we rely so much on other greedy countries for such a resource. Australia really needs to get behind an alternative...whatever that may be???

Here's my Opinion - Stay in Australia, Holiday in Australia, Buy products that are in Australia whether it be food, clothes, cars or anything else you can think of. Try to stop buying from overseas websites. Now is probably the best time to be doing so. International product prices are going up with the $AU exchange rate.

We need to keep Australian jobs - number one priority. If we can do that then everything else should fall into place.

2009 WILL BE A GOOD YEAR - We will get our priorities in order, find the simple things in life are free, take a step back and think about how out-of-control things were really getting, keep spending money to keep jobs - but instead of a 48inch Plasma TV, get something more affordable and practical. We dont have to 'have the best', just what we CAN afford without going into more debt.

Let's ALL endeavour to make 2009 a memorable one - for all the right reasons...