“Excitement over new defence spending fades” is the headline on ‘cnews’, but the only thing I was ever excited about was how lame and ridiculous the Liberal budget was with regard to defence spending after they practically bankrupted our military over the years.
But this being a Canadian Press story, well, things are a little different in their world. The liberal media is just different than the rest of us. You learn to see things like this when you’re not a liberal.
Just the first sentence of the story is enough to make me shake my head. Liberals always believe that everybody in the room is in total agreement with their liberal attitudes and expressed thoughts (and their thoughts are ALWAYS expressed)—as if everyone in the room automatically agrees.
“Initial exultation”? Thanks for informing us in this news story that there was a broad overriding agreement across the land that there was “initial exultation” over the military spending plans in the Liberals’ tax-and-spend, spend, spend budget.
OTTAWA (CP) – The initial exultation over military spending promises in last month’s federal budget is giving way to sober second thought by some in the defence community.
[I guess I was simply sober to start with—ed]
Upon closer scrutiny, the government’s promise of $12.8 billion in new spending over five years may not be all it’s cracked up to be, say observers.
[Well, actually, people like me didn’t even need “close scrutiny” to see this, but thanks.—ed]
For at least the next three years, spending – adjusted for inflation – will still be well below peak levels in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
And there are no guarantees the minority Liberal government will be around to keep the promises, or that the economy that must support the spending increases will hold up.
Experts also note that much of the anticipated money is tied to a defence policy statement that hasn’t been released yet.
“We have no idea when this thing will come out and the government may not want to bring it out as long as it has a minority in Parliament,” said David Rudd of the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies.
“Secondly, there were a number of things that probably should have been approved right up front. In other words, there was no need to wait until that review came out.”
But wait they will – for new aircraft, new ships and other badly needed equipment that will be at least a decade in coming, provided the anticipated policy statement requires them.
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