{"id":2701,"date":"2010-07-16T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2010-07-16T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:17:00","slug":"just-think-of-all-the-g8-summits-we-could-host-for-the-same-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2701","title":{"rendered":"Just think of all the G8 summits we could host for the same price!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This government is fiscally conservative&#8230;<em>except<\/em> when it comes to spending money:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong>Ottawa to spend $16-billion on fighter jets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>he Harper government is confirming it will spend $16-billion for the latest generation of fighter jets from Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n<p>But the government is fending off complaints that making one of the biggest military purchases in Canadian history without a single competing bid is a waste of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals and a former public servant who once headed the purchase project say the massive F-35 Joint Strike Fighter purchase should have been subjected to competitive bids.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, all my posts can&#8217;t be about sample selection bias, and on the topic of military fighter jets, my expertise is limited to what I&#8217;ve seen in Top Gun. But, to me, 16 billion <em>feels<\/em> like a lot of money to spend outside of a competitive bid process.<\/p>\n<p>And I suspect a lot of voters would feel the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This government is fiscally conservative&#8230;except when it comes to spending money: Ottawa to spend $16-billion on fighter jets he Harper government is confirming it will spend $16-billion for the latest generation of fighter jets from Lockheed Martin. But the government is fending off complaints that making one of the biggest military purchases in Canadian history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}