Posted: 4:43 PM on April 9, 2012 (EDT)
MacKay stands by F-35 jets, calls cost jump an accounting issue, barrie mckenna, Globe and Mail, Apr. 09, 2012
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/mackay-stands-by-f-35-jets-calls-cost-jump-an-accounting-issue/article2395294/
"But Mr. MacKay denied the government purposely hid the true cost of the F-35 and said the yawning $10-billion price gap is simply a matter of 'accounting'"
MacKay is right as far as it is an accounting problem.
It's just the true nature of the problem he appears to be confused on:
The accounting problem is:
Harper, MacKay and the other Con's accounting to the good people of Canada.
They have been hiding and misrepresenting the true cost of the F-35's which is bad enough to get them impeach, Canada style, and found in contempt of Parliament.
But what they are also not accounting to the good people of Canada is:
Just exactly why we need these strike force planes.
What plans for war are they hiding from us.
The military is here for the benefit of Canadians.
The other way around, where the people are there for the military is plain and simple, a military state.
There are many countries in the world that are run by their military, either in the foreground or pulling the strings in the background, they pretty much all are third world, oppressive states, where the people lack freedom, but hay there's always room for Canada.
Harper and the Con's have approx 35% die-hard support. They simply don't care whether they are conducting themselves as part of a free and democratic society, where the government is accountable to the people, all the people.
It is the remaining 65% that will have to stand up, be counted, and demand Harper, MacKay and the other Con's be accountable.
http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1331148027111_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=650x
(for some reason teh G&M wouldn't post the URL - go figure)
Check out the Pete-pic with the peace signs and compared to famous Richard Nixon's caricatures "I am not a crook". I know, I know, Nixon didn't actually put his hands up in peace signs and say 'I am not a crook'
(Pete-pic)
When you look at the pic of Pete you can almost imagine him saying "I am not a liar"
Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html