In September, Australia elected a conservative in a landslide election.

Tony Abbott won by promising voters lower taxes, tougher border security, and measures to revive the economy.

Mr. Abbott pledged to tighten Australia’s borders to stop a surge of asylum-seekers. The same thing we need to do in this country to stop the incoming flow of illegal aliens.

In the recent past Australia, like the U.S. , has had too many of their policies that were not about creating jobs and wealth; they were about redistributing (stealing) wealth from people believed to be rich to give to people (too lazy to work) who claimed they were poor. The same thing our illustrious President is doing in this country.

There is nothing wrong with the rich sharing some of their good fortune with the poor. We need to lend a hand to those in need. However, as it states in 2 Thessalonians 3:10 NIV: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

Sharing wealth is not the first step in the process of managing a country. First, someone has to create the wealth for everyone to share.

In the United States and Australia mining has advantages over most of the countries in the world. Coal mining is an industry that creates wealth and jobs. Once wealth is created it can then be shared.

Coal is the fuel of choice around the world. The global use of coal is increasing.

The U.S. is helping to meet demand for coal abroad by exporting record amounts to Europe and Asia.

The U.S. should jump at the opportunity to demonstrate and sell advanced coal technology and American know-how to other countries whose economic development requires more and better use of coal.

Why not capture the booming international market for advanced coal technology in the same way we’ve sold the shale revolution.

Innovative hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling technology have unlocked vast amounts of oil and gas in this country that for decades were thought to be out of reach.

Coal remains a growing and critical piece of the world’s economy. Global trends suggest it’s very much the fuel of the future.

As naiveté and ignorance cause the current administration to waste vast sums of money to support wind and solar power, which account for less than 2 percent of the nation’s energy, while the huge global demand for coal technology should dictate that coal be at the top of our energy agenda.

No wonder why Australians and Americans are fed-up with their governments. We all recognize the hypocrisy of what has been happening and long to get back to the simple and honest approach of rewarding hard work, sharing spoils fairly, and encouraging the people and industries that make countries rich.

Australia has taken the first step in that direction and I hope America will soon follow. God Bless the USA.

 

Joseph P. Smith is the owner of Pyro-Chem Corporation in South Point and has worked in the energy industry for more than three decades. He can be reached by email at joepsmith@zoominternet.net