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"David Newman" <danewman@mts.net> wrote in message
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> The Liberals are the lesser of the 2 evils.  If you want to see Canada
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> backwards towards a Draconian era where we focus funds on military at the
> expense of health care vote Refor...uh oh yeah the rhetoric of
Conservative.
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You completely missed my post, eh? Just respond to the top portion? The
LIEbrals having been stealing from all Canadians for 11 yrs. The entire
party needs to be changed from top down before I even consider voting for
the LIEbrals. Fire em all, and bring in a new batch.

Now, as for your comments on military spending, you have two choices at this
point bub, increase spending, or call back all of our troops, and whelch on
our commitments to NATO and the UN.

The Conservatives are not planning on dumping US sized funds into the DND.
They are merely going to try to stop the hemorrhaging which is taking place
within the DND. All of our vehicles (with a few notable exceptions, G-Wagon,
LAV-III, Stryker (don't start me on the last one)), are due for replacement.
It is costing the DND more per year to maintain the relics (MLVW, ILTIS, Sea
King, M113, C130 Hercules, CF-18 (needs a massive retrofit to talk to other
NATO aircraft, further the majority of the fleet is grounded for lack of
funds to fuel them) then it would to replace them out right, the Tories have
expressed the foresight to recognize this.

Of course there is the myopic percentage that say "Get rid of the armed
forces all together...". Should this happen, you would be able to watch the
national unemployment rate jump by double digits. The military employees
more then just soldiers. We contract civilians by the thousands, the
economic spill over from a near by base is keeping several small communities
across Canada alive (soldiers buy stuff, so do the spouses, and so do the
civilian contractors). Indirectly/directly, I would say that the DND is
responsible for well over 150, 000 jobs (as stated, indirectly all those
retail jobs off base, hotels, restaurants, entertainment venues).

Military spending can be increased without sacrificing health care, it's
simple, cut the dead wood (gun registry, adscam, 2x challenger jets, polar
escapades, partisanship postings, etc, etc, etc.).