The other side of the coin is that they were just to dammed expensive to operate and maintain not to mention close to obselete and replacing them was simply out of the question. As for Taylors 'first line of defence' that is just bullsit. The current SAM's at the time would have the Skyhawks out of the sky before they knew what hit them.
Skyryder
Free Scott Watson.
Is this the best ya all can comeup with. Not one has even tried to defend these rorts becasue they can not be defended with any credibility. Like just look at some of this. It's embarressing.
Skyryder
Free Scott Watson.
Rubbish it is too. Like he’s making out it’s over a couple bottles of wine. This guy was up to his neck in the housing rort few months back…………..remember. He’s an old hand at this……………..but he got caught……again……..and now he’s all tear jerky and what a nice honourable guy etc. What load of old codswallop.
And no wonder Key is pissed off. Worth ‘is’ forced to resign due to Key’s ‘bad pressing’ the man and it turns out that Worth had done nothing wrong.
Key goes into bat for Heatley ‘we all make stupid mistakes’ then Heatley resigns making Key look like the dick he is. I think Heatley resignation is a measure of not only the type of person that this Government is made up of but the resignation shows how little control Key has over his Ministers.
And why did Key drop everything and rush to Wellington? Not the sort of thing that a Statesman Prime Minister would do is it.
Has the Auditor General found something and Key is off looking at damage control?
Free Scott Watson.
Ok Skyrider ,you got your scalp.
He was doing a great job bringing aquacultre up out of the pits......Fixing all of Andertons fuck ups,honestly nine years of hardships for us in the industry. still wont change the polls any.
Would the F16s have been, actually, a good deal? They were first meant to go to pakistan, and I read somoewhere that they had most of the 'really cool bits" removed, ie, these were the three-on-the-tree, vinyl bench seat, no heater base model (to use an automotive analogy). To get them into any sort of shape where they could have been any more than window dressing would have cost a whole lot more. In that case, they would be as you worte, a hell deal, anyway.
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_users_article14.html
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
First rule of being a socialist. If you can't argue the point, pretend the person you are discussing things with have no point. Lie. Obfuscate. Attempt to twist away. Helen Clark showed us how that worked for 9 long years of lies and corruption. Skyryder is following her mantra perfectly.
However, I believe the reason nobody is jumping to defend the relatively minor over spend is because:
(a) It was an honest mistake
(b) The person has apologised and accepted responsibility for their misconduct
I know this is a foreign concept for most fervent Labour / Green party supporters, but to the majority of right thinking people the kind of petty point scoring you're engaging in is just that. Petty. Childish. And part of the reason your corrupt pack of liars got voted out last election and will, hopefully, stay out of power for a damn long time.
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