Australians have won thelottery of life.....but don't lose the ticket before we collect !!
Thestage is now set for a true leader to step up, make hard decisions , ignore thewhining numbers in the PC brigade and rent-seekers but focus purely on whatonce made this a great country !
National Cabinet will soon find thatAustralia-after-Coronacan’t afford a bloated public service, an overmanned and overpaid academia, throngs of able-bodied people on long-term welfare (Dave R), too many tax-exempt foundations, endless donations to worthless UN fiefdoms and talk-fests, destructive emissions targets, and a huge import bill to pay for all the things we once made here.
Nor can we afford all the resources being wasted on dysfunctional submarinesdesigned inCanberra, the Snowy 2 Green elephant, green energy molly-coddling or the water-wasting Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
We must re-build economic muscle not flab.
Start with a couple of clean, modern reliable coal-fired power stations. Thischeap reliable electricity may restart some defunct processing andmanufacturing industries. Then build our submarines as they were designed –nuclear powered. And start building dams and weirs.
Already there are no surpluses to spend on subsidising every strugglingconsumer and failing business. And a tidal wave of borrow-and-spend will justdestroy the currency.
As in post-warGermany, recovery can only come if governments slash taxes, repeal useless red and green tape, remove all barriers to new dams, railways, roads, power stations, mines and exploration, and encourage science and engineering education. They must doze the road blocks and then keep out of the way.
Since the days of the First Fleet,Australiahas relied on our great primary industries – farming, mining, forestry and fishing. The pioneers started exporting wool, hides, tallow and timber; then came the gold rushes and great finds of silver, copper, lead-zinc and tin; our meat, cereals, sugar, butter and eggs fed allied soldiers through two world wars; and a bonanza of coal, oil, gas, iron and aluminium financed the baby boomers and the extravagant politicians of that era. When mining had a recession, farmers came to the rescue and vice versa. They also helped finance a continent of roads, railways, power stations, and dams and provided productive jobs for a growing population and a flood of migrants.
If they were not so hampered by taxes, regulations and employment barriers, ourfarmers, foresters, fishers, engineers, explorers, miners, metallurgists,tradesmen and workers can pull us out of this hole too. They could even rebuildsome of the great secondary industries lost because of our uncompetitiveelectricity and overheads.
Whoeverhas the courage to lead us out of this mess must have the strength to defendthe values of Western Civilisation, and the way of life we have, built on thepillars of democracy and capitalism. We are at war on two fronts….the fightagainst the covid 19 virus and the creeping virus of the acceptance ofsocialism.
Asthe great Winston Churchill once said…..“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed ofignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing ofmisery.”
