Couldn't resist this one. The Gun Registry, a personal burr beneath my saddle is fast approaching the $2B mark if I understand correctly. CTV news quoted the subs at a cost approaching $1B with refits etc. When I went to school 2 plus 1 equal 3. CTV also quoted the cost of brand new submarines at $750M each. Kinda looks like we could have bought 4 new ones instead of the lemons we have been bamboozled with. Politics and economics 101, I know its probably not this simple, at least to the idiots we have in government...And another thing, what about the "G Wagens"? At the fear of sounding pro-American, I stilll think we should have looked a bit closer to home and perhaps bought Humvees instead. Unfortunately our government has continually decided that it is in our best interest to contract our defence work out to foreign governments and to purchase the most obscure and antiquated crap we can buy for the money.
Obviously our leaders have forgotten the 750,000 mvs we built right here at home during the Second World War, not to mention all the ships, planes etc etc.
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07-10-04, 05:19
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