- "Eye watering technology"??? - Peter MacKay, how about the "eye watering bill".

7/16/2010 11:05:14 AM the Globe and Mail
Just what we need: a $16-billion fighter jet, Jeffrey Simpson, 16 Jul.'10
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/just-what-we-need-a-16-billion-fighter-jet/article1641373/ Tab 22

16 billion for 'future generation' fighter jets?

Hey Harper, how about 'future generation' Canadians.

"Canada’s defence planners would obviously like the F-35 for reasons of “interoperability,” and because they love new equipment."

Oh, that's a good reason for spending 16 billion.

If the military loves 'new technology' that much, buy them all DS's - I'm fairly sure that wouldn't cost 16 billion - although buying the game chips might start to be a major expenditure.

Harper uses the latest in stealth techniques for just about everything he does, including the contracts for this procurement. So, I can see how he would be into the F-35.

If the F-35's had been ready last month, Harper could have saved 1 billion in security on the G8 and G20. Just think if Harper had had stealth technology and had been able to call in first strike capabilities in Toronto.

Stephen Harper and the Con's seem to have a penchant for spending Canadians tax dollars with free abandon and for partizan purposes, as if it were money given to them. It seems that it is built right into Conservative values when you compare Mulroney, Bush, Reagan, etc. - perhaps, it's the laissez faire corollary: 'to the winner go the spoils'. Tom Flanagan once compared the Harper style of politics to the ancient Romans, he is right, in a extremist, right-wing fashion.

Harper, Peter Mackay here's a hint: You can be sure that the areas of the world that will require military intervention will put Canadian soldiers against the latest technology in IED's, jet fighters will be collateral at best.

We must all keep in mind, it is not Harper that must pay. I am sure that when he 'retires' he will go to the US and get a great paying position with some ultra-right conservative group or the military-industrial complex, perhaps with Dick Cheney.

We are the ones, each and every one of us to a man, woman and child, that will have to pay. But, worse, it is also our children and our children's children that will be left to pay the crippling financial debt as well as the impacts of Harper's policies regarding just about everything.

We must prevent leaving for future generations a debt burden that is so crippling that the economy collapses into third world oblivion like almost happened with Mulroney.

Let us not leave our children with the resentment that we were ever given a turn at the helm.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html