LETTER

The circus

The US’ new economic agenda for the world roars ahead unnoticed while the Trump circus juggles and barks under the spotlight.  Last week, while the White House press corps was playing Dungeons and Dragons: the Kavanaugh edition, President Trump was signing an $854 billion spending bill with  no reporters present. The almost $1 trillion package included an obscene $674 billion defense budget.

This spending spree includes Lockheed-Martin’s troubled F-35 which Popular Mechanics described as a “trillion-dollar” albatross.  “For over two decades, the F-35 has been the symbol of everything that’s wrong with mammoth defense contracts: behind schedule, over budget, and initially, over-sold,” reported the magazine. Presumably, F-35s can still be sold, especially to allies the Yanks can kick into submission.

Robert Kennelly

Hull / Gatineau