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Journeyman said:I barely know where to start...... : ....but I'll limit myself to two points:
1. "...a political Agenda"...especially with the upper-case 'Agenda,' sounds so conspiratorial. :Tin-Foil-Hat: anic:
Yes, the agenda is a post-war scaling back of military spending. It happens in pretty much every country after every war -- including the post-Cold War 'decade of darkness.' Democratic governments are responsible to the people -- people who generally don't want higher taxes and can't be convinced to buy "War Bonds" to pay for combat equipment when they perceive no justifiable threat, and see greater utility in paying down debt or adjusting spending towards social benefits and infrastructure. I'm not weighing in here on where Defence monies should be spent, just that cuts are inevitable.
2. And as for my old hobby-horse of "opinions versus informed opinions," where people in various threads here are pointing out the difficulties of sustaining essential family requirements and maintaining critical combat capabilities -- hell, getting boots and mukluks -- you're going to whine about losing a CISM sport?!
Big-picture thinking at its finest. :facepalm:
There's always as silver-lining -- always. Reducing CISM sports frees up more time for people to read, understand, and hopefully inform their thinking. :nod:
I did not mean in the event to cut back on kit we need, It was more of a we have this here, we dont anymore- Using CISM as an example for one of the many things we have seen pulled away, which is understandable with the cutbacks. (stating the fact we had money for it before, not now, not whining about it)
Do you really wanna start the boot argument here? We have wasted millions on boots, if not more, yet here we are, getting ordered to return boots because they are either falling apart or just pieces of garbage. Stuff like this is the money we need to cut back on, the rampant needless spending on new shiny boots, without having a proper trial run of them.
"a political Agenda"-Sorry, that was a typo, not meant to seem conspiracy theory on you.