ShootMessenger said:So tell me again why we are wasting $16 BILLION on these F-35 jets that no one else wants to buy?
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The purchase price is 9 billion. 16 is the figure that includes maintenance. When you buy your car, do you add the cost of maintenance for 40 years?

For the sake of rational argument, lets say we must consider the number 16 billion. Is the reader aware of the NY Times report that quoted Lockheed-Martin as saying they expect to spend 10 billion buying "Canadian made parts*? Over a hundred Canadian companies will employ hundreds and maybe thousands of Canadians in the high-tech industry. Anyone from Ontario should be doing a dance, since they will get the majority of that 10 bil.
Unions should be salivating.

This week over a thousand auto workers received layoff notices as GM and Ford shuts down Canadian factories. I would think that any Ontarioans who are blogging here today should be saying "Hallelujah!"

A thousand highly skilled high paying jobs have serious ripple effects, and that works both ways.
So, while auto workers line up for night jobs at Timmies this Canadian will be supporting any Canadian industry, science and technology to see us turn this around.

*10 billion? 3,000 F-35s expect to be made in this production run. So Canada's industry isn't supporting 60 odd planes. Its supplying our allies with 20x the demand we would exert ourselves that needs be considered.