Read this article and then read it again, substituting “Australia” for “USA” and understand that we are doing exactly the same as the Americans, having already created a situation where Australian manufacturing is virtually non-existent. Unless Australia reverses its policy of globalisation and stops our jobs being exported to places like China, then we are doomed. The only jobs that our children will be able to get will be as waiters, housemaids, cleaners and bartenders, kowtowing to the Chinese because they will own us, lock, stock and barrel.
Do you remember the 1950s and 1960s, when we manufactured TVs, radios, washing machines, fridges, toasters and a million other goods?
Remember Aussie-made TVs such as Admiral, HMV, AWA, Astor, Ferris, Kreisler, even HG Palmer? Guess what – not one television manufacturer exists in Australia. The same goes for all those other goods. Nobody makes radios,
toasters, washing machines and beater-mixes here. Australia does not manufacture anything of note and all those people that worked at companies making Aussie goods for Aussie people – they don’t have those jobs any more.
Those manufacturing plants are closed. We have exported all those jobs to China. Australia used to have a huge textile industry, but virtually all the clothing manufacturers have either gone out of business, or closed their factories here and are getting the Chinese to make their garments.
This nation could literally be self-sufficient. We have the raw material to make literally anything. We have a workforce that is capable of manning factories to make anything we need locally. We have researchers, designers and scientists at the forefront of technology. We can acquire knowhow from anywhere. But is Australia doing this? No, of course not. We are making the Chinese wealthy and leaving our kids the legacy of being waiters and cleaners.
And what do you think will happen when the Chinese see that Australian industry is non-existent and they’ve got us by the goolies? They will stop selling us cheap stuff and they will hike up the prices and gouge us until they bleed us dry. And while they are doing that, we will tug our forelocks like medieval serfs and bow and scrape to them, because THEY WILL OWN US.
Read this article and weep – it’s long, but if you understand anything, you will become as enraged as I did when I read it and the implications sunk in.
Remember to substitute “Australia” for “USA” and see the catastrophe that Australia has made for itself.