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gdevreal	And let the People decide	#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1531 11/26/08 23:32:52	whether they want an army or not. Guns or butter. The most pathetic thing about this is that the People are forced to pay for something which is solely there to subdue them. No citizen in their right mind would vote for that. You can talk about efficiency all day long, but when that efficiency is used to deny the citizenry their rights, it is corrupt and a sham. Whether uniforms cost more overseas or not will depend on what happens to the exchange rate. Foreign exchange should be used for capital investment to build Fiji industry, not to purchase things which can be made in Fiji. If the tenders board is not doing their job, convict them.
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real jack	State decides gdev	#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6082 11/27/08 01:13:09	the State decides whether it needs an army or not. we can have GUNS and BUTTER. its not a question of removing the army - its a question of making the Army efficient. at the moment we are not getting the full benefit of those Iraq contracts - becausethe Aussies are taking out 3/4 of the payout for the equipment. Fiji only gets 12 million a year from those deployments - the other 3/4 goes to Aussie - the correct figure we should be deriving from that deployment were it our own equipment would be closer to 50 million. this is where we start talking about efficiencies. what Narsey failed to point out in his article is the comparative figures for foreign income derived by the RFMF into the country over the last twenty years - and that figure is quite substantial. close to $600 million - and thats without the money from the equipment - had they had the equipment money coming in that figure would be a lot higher. that is the crux of the issue - your issue is personal - you don't like the RFMF because its not supporting Qarase and George Speight. its not about either Guns OR Butter for you - it never was. Last Edited By: real jack 11/27/08 01:35:43. Edited 1 time.
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gdevreal	State is defined by the Constitution	#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1542 11/28/08 00:37:29	The army is not a state. It is subordinate to the state. The leaders of that state are elected. This junta is unconstitutional. You are so silly.
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real jack	of course gdev	#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6096 11/28/08 02:16:51	and the HEAD OF THE STATE under our Constitution is the President. and the President has mandated the Army to do what its done - and the Court has ruled that the President acted lawfully in doing so. not being silly gdev - its what we have to work with. a declaration by the High Court which renders it legal. and unless and until the conclusion of an appeal says otherwise, that is the status quo.
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