so, the way this works is that we have to buy it because we're being ordered to, but harper is dragging his feet (diefenbaker may be using some magnets from his grave) and the other two are being facetious in suggesting a market-based competition. in the end, they will of course buy the f-35s like they're told. this might be the only thing they all agree on: they don't want this.

but, why do we have to do this, again, barack? you know they're going to sit in a hangar. hell, i'd rather you just keep them down there to begin with - we'd save money on keeping vandals away from them. and on wd-40.

why can't we just pay you a protection tax, or something? that way, we can budget it properly. plan around it. tax your compan..err....the russians. tax the russians to pay for it.

no, really, there's gotta be some way out of this. two out of three are insisting on balanced budgets, and i don't want anybody dealing with funding cuts to buy planes. we've got pilots. they'll be happy to take part in your silly empire, if you'd like - you just need to give them planes. or, if you really want us to have them, maybe you could give us some of that "military aid" that you give to countries like israel.

we're just kind of not really interested in being taxed on this. we've got stuff like single payer health care that we'd rather use that for.

see, the american perspective sees it as a win-win. they get jobs for building the planes. they get their allies the planes. it's all win. and, this is the post-war reality and has been since the war: they get to order us to buy their stuff because they're the empire and we're the client and that's how this stuff works.

what they're not realizing is that we don't spend more on the military than everybody else in the world combined, like they do. rather, we spend a lot on services. for us, that's an obscene amount of money.

it's not as easy as just levelling with them. it's going to require some kind of delightfully aloof comedy routine, or something.

www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-trudeau-scrap-f35-halifax-1.3235791

PrimeMinster Gerald Butts!
Where do you guys get such utter nonsense?

Jessica Murray
it's how the world works, man. maybe drop chomsky an email and ask him to explain it to you....