There is a lot of press going on using Holden as a political football.
The idea of expending almost $3B in government funding ($2.7B of it federal) to keep a car company running. Cries of corporate welfare and all that.
Noise about how much money this "investment" puts back into the government coffers (maybe $20-some-billion). Or not.
Well OK, have that discussion.
But while that is going on, the Federal (and some State) governments want massive welfare for Defence for little combat capability:
-Up to $40B of new submarines of dubious worth.
-Over $16B for the Joint Strike Failure
-$10B or so for dubious Air Warfare Destroyers
-$3B or so for large amphibious flat-tops
-Up to $6.6B for the 24 Super Hornets
-Another few billion for some G Super Hornets (some of the first batch- already had money on them spent for wiring conversion for Gs but that was thrown out the window)
-$1.4~1.7B on C-27s
-Ditto billions for Romeo helicopters
-Billions wasted on the MRH-90 and Tiger helicopters
-Giving away C-130Hs to a country that has no trouble coming up with money for its own Defense (Indonesia)
Holden cars actually work.
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