Sold out and powerless
THE raw facts of the coronavirus are only now starting to hit the everyday person.
I went to buy some hand sanitiser wipes, and found they had been made in China. I could not buy any Australian ones.
In a country that has pursued globalisation, bringing us to the fact that we cannot make anything here any more, we have Chinese antiseptic wipes helping us defend against a Chinese virus.
If you ask our politicians, “why have you let this country get this way”, all we will get is blank looks, stupid excuses as to our ‘global position’, and Australians’ once proud independence is now challenged beyond anything the ‘woke’ generation has even dreamt of.
The Government has moved to give money away to keep our economy going, yet this money will be borrowed, because we have sold all of the items in our cupboard.
The reality of closed business will not be helped by the massive profits of the banks who will close their doors if you rush up to get your own money out. News reports litter our screens, phones and radio telling us what we already know.
If Australia had not sold our roads, bridges, farms and manufacturing we would be able to re-tool and get the items we need. Australians over these last few decades have been flat out just paying the mortgage, let alone worrying about where the items in their home come from. I mean, the elected politicians are supposed to look after us.
Why then are we running short of ordinary medical supplies? At some stage the fact that our country imports more than it should and have sold the farm will come home to haunt us, and I would suggest it is now.
Tragic to say the least, but true nevertheless. When the generation of World War II was called on to do extraordinary things, we had the ability to respond.
We do not have that ability now, weighed down with debt, nothing made here, our exports under attack from Greens, and our massive cost of living has trodden down the ‘she’ll be right mate’.
This virus, tragic that it is, may wake up those of us who remember when Australia made things, looked after Australians, paid our bills and owned our Holden and house.
Only a few brave independent politicians have been warning of our blind rush to be a so-called global citizen will one day hurt us.
It has taken a little tiny virus from our greatest problem, China, to make us realise that we may just need to build a factory instead of a stadium. Build a dam instead of a Cross River Brisbane rail, keep our mining, but make those tech giants pay tax – tax that will build that dam and factory.
In the end we will have plenty of face masks and gloves, because they won’t need to be ‘Made In China.’
DEBRA GIBSON,
Pinnacles.