Gina Gina Gina !!!!!

Quote from Gina Reinhart.

"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain; do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socialising, and more time working".

Has this woman totally lost grip on reality??? Did she ever have a grip???

Her comments on how to become wealthy initially made me pee my pants laughing, until I realised she was serious....

Easy for Gina to sprout her words of wisdom when she was born into enormous wealth, a priveldged education and inherited billions. I think most of us could make money given ALL these advantages in life.  It shows how truely out of touch she is with the REAL world and REAL working people who possibly may have a ciggie to calm their jangling nerves on how to make the next mortgage payment or rego the car, will they lose their job, perhaps a drink whilst socialising with friends and family, surely this is still the fabric of our society, this is what keeps us connected, Gina, something you clearly are not!

To suggest that giving up smoking, drinking and socialising is the simple solution to becoming wealthy is not that simple, not everyone has asperations of being rich and giving all to their work, time with family and community should be important also. Some people simply want to do their job, keep their job, pay their taxes (which I know would be far more than you would pay with your fancy accountants avoiding tax wherever possible) and live a good and decent life, what's wrong with that?. But for most of us there are no certainties in the job market anymore, jobs for life just dont exist as they did in previous generations.

So if you do not have the luxury of having family money to get you started on the property ladder, to have the backing to start your own business, if should you be made redundant or have limited prospects of finding another job due to an illness or age. 

It's bloody hard to get wealthy even giving up the 3 vices you single out.  I notice that your addiction to FOOD is not mentioned, Gluttony one of the Seven Deadly Sins!

What's the saying people in Glass houses shouldn't throw stones.....we all have our vices its just that your Daddy's billions allowed you to indulge in whatever your heart desires, not many on the planet are afforded this luxury.

Also for a "supposedly" educated and knowledgable business person you should be better informed on how tough it is to survive on the  minimum wage, yet another absurb comment about the minimum wage being too high, Pleeeeeeese! Have you tried it Gina?

I suspect you are no more clever or disciplined than the rest of average australians you just got lucky and should be thanking your lucky stars and feel privledged to be putting back into a country that your family has taken ALL its wealth from, you don't drive the trucks that dig the resources out of this land you sit on your eromous butt and tell people what to do and how much they should get paid or not as was the case recently.

You are a disgrace and should stop making comments on issues you clearly have no clue about, go and have another burger and chips and leave us poor hard working souls alone, and spare us your high and mighty ideas, as we all know that it takes money to make money, but clearly doesn't give you intelligence and compassion.