Blue and Gold

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Konovalov

My bloodpressure shot through the roof after reading that article in the Oz.

Can we start paying these guys what they are worth please? Otherwise we are going to have half a dozen expensive white elephants.

I feel like my hard earned tax dollars have been used to finance a few floating museums.

Precisely.....up the coin of the realm or cut down on the number of units

[Konovalov]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Precisely.....up the coin of the realm or cut down on the number of units

Since we spent so much bleedin money building them ourselves and dealing with all the problems afterwards I would choose the first option. Just pay our sailers better and offer stronger incentives so that the only time our Collins class subs are in drydock is for repair/rest/re-fit.

[TarJak]

There is a nice fat surplus in the budget waiting for the "future". :hmm:

One wonders when the future will come?

I don;t advocate spending it all, but I'm also not paying tax to have a bunch of cash sitting around not doing anything when the country has a number of problems that could be solved by spending some of it.

[baggygreen]

But we can't spend the surplus, that would mean baaaaad economic management...

I must admit, my initial reaction to upping the pay was not a good one - a submariner who goes to sea will bring home around 120k.

But then i thought hang on.. that same submariner could go to the mines and drive a truck, see the family and have leave for 90k.

up the pay!!!!

[bookworm_020]

Upping the pay may help, but giving them better conditions and more family time would atract more to the subs and keep more in the service. The Army and Airforce don't have they same problem, as the end of most days work you can go home. A little hard on a ship that is at sea!

[Frame57]

Is it possible to train Kangaroos to drive these boats....:hmm:

[Jimbuna]

The problem is. they have long tails which tend to get jammed in the watertight hatches :p