Incredibly...Stupid.

$AUD 20 BILLION is being spent on a couple of crappy fighter jets? 15% of the Australian Federal budget, EVERY year for 10 years, being spent on such crap? On jets which are ALREADY outdated! On jets which could never, ever, come even close to saving us in the event of a war anyway! In any case, there are no hostile neighbors now, and no reasons why there needs to be. There are absolutely no justified OR feasible applications for these ridiculous jets, even in the overseas wars currently taking place. There is also no potential for these jets to improve Australia's ability to meet its obligations to its treaty signatories such as Japan, the US and New Zealand, nor for peace-keeping OR counterterrorism measures (not that I think counter-terrorism is worthwhile, either).

I am exploding with anger not only at the stupidity of the Joint Strike Fighter jet purchases, but on the very idea that Australian military idiots could consider us a country capable of defending ourselves in a situation of war. Or economically powerful enough to poking our fingers around elsewhere. Years ago, these same fools wasted $10 billion on disgracefully impotent and defunct submarines, to the aggravation and often tangible pain of everybody domestically, and to the bewilderment of our neighbors. This decision raises the bone-headededness to a new level.

The Defense portfolio needs to be virtually dismantled and its ministers removed in disgrace. We should be spending all of that money domestically, slowing down the rate at which Australia becomes an uneducated, internationally uncompetitive basketcase that is drowning in debt.