Looks to me one air crane helicopter costs around $2m per year to lease and operate. If we spent “only” $500m on the ABC instead of a billion a year we could run 250 of these air cranes right now saving people’s homes and lives. I don’t think there is 250 in existence but I am sure the good people at Erickson would be more than happy to build them! I wonder if the people who have lost their homes would rather we have taxpayers money being spent running Ironman cartoons on ABC 3 for kids in an era of apparent childhood obesity or life saving water bomber air cranes? Ive become accustomed to hearing Bolt described as the lowest of the low, despicable [and downhill-from-there]. Well, if the shoe fits... ABC... and all the rest of the hoopla-whatever fear peddlers with an axe to grind (please excuse my mixing of metaphors). That a media organisation should be so criminally and wilfully incompetent as to not simply source easily (obviously) obtainable newspaper records, preferring to serve as an agent of propaganda, is truly despicable. Arrogance of the very worst kind, presuming as it does to appropriate public monies for its cause. Just who is guilty of politicising these tragic and largely unnecessary disastrous mass fires? Dont look to the ABC for any light on that important question. This exercise alone tells those with any interest in the truth all they need, to start having a really good think about what they have come to trust, and to believe. Shameful. Just read the article and transcripts. blogs.news.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/if_the_abc_really_wants_to_stop_bushfires_it_could_donate_half_its_budget/
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:57:43 +0000