Where did I express " Insanity" in my last post?
Well there is the part where you think that cutting military spending will mean cutting funding to the cadets program.
Then the bit where you clearly have some sort of emotional bias towards the cadets program.
Then there comes the bit where because of your patriotism towards the cadets, you have a dislike of a similar rival program, kind of like how a sporting fan will show irrational dislike of a rival team.
Then comes the flag waving. It always ends in flag waving.
I get it, you have a bit of a hard one for the military.
Ecological things. " Save the obscure animal", perhaps institute drug testing on welfare, and other stuff like that.
You know that police issues and military issues are different things, right?
He asked for places to get money. I supplied them. Nothing to do with police.
So, I am insane for having patriotism. Quite frankly, fuck off. Our country is great. One of the best in the world. So what if I " Have a hard one for the military". The military, goddamn, our military. They have done so much to this world. The Germans would have gone unopposed in North Africa if it were not for us. We had one of the best generals in WW1. Small amounts of reservists, or "Choco Soldiers" held off massive amounts of Japanese. Young teenage boys helped troops out, all because of the mateship they had developed. Japanese troops burned villages, yet the populace still supported the troops.
You are the insane one. Cutting defence budgets will cut cadets funding. Cadets, well, my case stands. They are the best youth organisation out there. I wave my flag sir, despite how many dumbarse politicians we may have. I wave my flag, despite how many bogans get pissed on VB and crash V8's. I wave my flag. Many do. We are not insane. We like our country, what it has done for the world. We contribute a lot in foreign aid. We take on refugees, and we took 'em as early as after WW2. Sir, I wave my flag. I wave my flag to this great nation. If you don't like my flag waving, deal with it.
Okay, so you want 25% more soldiers. That's an extra 6 billions A$ a year. Where do you want that money to come from? What threat do you think justify spending an extra 6 billions a year? Indonesia? China? The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste?
Ecological things. " Save the obscure animal", perhaps institute drug testing on welfare, and other stuff like that.
They tried that last one in America, it didn't save any money. It saved less than the cost of the testing, in fact. Less than 2% of welfare recipients tested positive for anything. and 90% of the positives were for marijuana.
Yeah, let's exterminate rare animals so we can uneccesarily militarize the nation to fight people who have zero economic incentive to invade (most of Australia is uninhabitable if you haven't noticed. We'd have 100 million here long ago, if we could). Real good move.
Poor animals. Poor, poor animals. Don't worry, you are more important than people.
Let's just open up and tax whaling by the Japanese in our waters.
I think it would be a lot better to take pride in your wonderous, one-of-a-kind nature and to spend more money to protect that rather than to put more money into any part of the military. More patriotic as well, for that matter.
I do. Quite frankly though, our people have a higher place than animals. Sorry to burst your bubble.