Re: Australian Submarines
I still can not see how spending all this money on building military crap is going to save a country that is so large that any invading force would be better of arriving in a remote area and not be noticed. Just imagine if all those billions where used to build up our farming and manufacturing industries not to mention do some serious work on water. We could end up the food bowl of the world or at least Asia. But alas that is looking to far forward. Far better to keep the population in fear of attack while spending more money on building a stronger sling shot. Just look back at the crap we have purchased over the years. Ships that are rust buckets and needed more money spent on them to restore them that would have cost to build them. A few disused tanks and planes that are questionable that some countries have backed out of purchasing them now. Not our fecking lot. All political parties are using the scare tactics just in case, at our expense. Australia's best defence is pure and simply its size. What is ridicules is anyone intending to take us over will have to put it of for a decade or so until we manage to build our gear PMSL over this for sure. Pure and simple this latest exercise is to get these incompetent idiots elected in South Australia plus brownie points for the rest. One only has to look at it logically to know that there will be changes in government during the term of building so funding for these projects is always going to be under the microscope and alterations to terms of the build will also be.
That's the way the mop flops.
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