Comments by "Goatcha" (@Goatcha_M) on "American Reacts to Top FACTS You Didn't Know About the Southern Hemisphere.." video.

  1. Yes, America is ranked 24 on the Corruption index, but even Australia is only ranked 13 now, we used to be 7.
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  2.  @coopsnz1  Live in opposite land do you? Thexreason we have gone from 10L 80M 10H to 50L 30M 20VH is Howard's removal and reduction of social safety nets and worker protection laws; the rolling back of high income taxes for the rich in favour of the GST which puts a 10% income tax burden even on those below the tax threshold; the housing crisis caused in part by a lack of high density building but mostly because of all the investment buyer incentives; HECS which TBF Keating introduced but Howard made worse. Oh the list goes on.
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  3.  @ropeburn6684  Indonesia is right next door, overpopulated and at severe risk from rising sea levels. And then there's China. We have a lot to worry about, especially as the Liberal Party have a tendency to sabotage our national defence capabilities today in exchange for American weapons 20-30 years in the future, which will be woefully obsolete when they arrive.
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  4. Australia is an island, anyone denying that is ignoring the obvious. Just look at a map. Largest island and Smallest Continent. You want to get technical, Antarctica isn't a continent, its an archipelago.
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  5. Whatever the origins it used to ring grue back when 80% of the population could be considered middle income. Ie. Until the mid 90s when Howard ruined everything.
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  6.  @ropeburn6684  I dunno about serious impending threats, I've been told that Indonesia's military technology is so far behind us that they don't pose a serious threat, but with our subs (that can't shoot whilimg moving) going offline, transport ships that can't carry our own tanks and all the F35s being grounded because itrs a broken plane... eh? I see Indonesia as potentially causing problems as Sea Level Rises force issues later in the century, and China has always been heavily expansionistic and don't like that we are in strike range of The Strait of Malacca able to destroy anything passing through. I personally consider them both serious threats, but I am just some random civlian with no knowledge of the actual capabilities of our military, but I can point out we are not protected by cast stretches of water like the USA is, our northern border is long, sparsely populated and difficult to effectively protect and other nations do have reasons to invade, for mineral resources, agricultural land and because we are a in a highly important strategic location. We are reliant on US aid to defend us, which in and of itself also makes us a greater target because no one really likes America, not even its closest allies, and the treaty between us essentially forces us to fight in US's laws but gives no guarantees they have to defend us, they will only do so in their own interests.
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