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.
