Huge Sales! Get it while the getting is good
A paraphrase of Australian Minister for Defense Materiel Jason Clare would be the below quote (borrowed from Guy Ritche)
- Bacon: Right. Let’s sort the buyers from the spyers, the needy from the greedy, and those who trust me from the ones who don’t. Because if you can’t see value here today, you’re not up here shopping, you’re up here shoplifting. You see these goods? Never seen daylight, moonlight, Israelite; Fanny by the gaslight. Take a bag, come mon, take a bag. I took a bag home last night. Cost me a lot more than ten pound, I can tell you. Anyone like jewelry? Look at that one there. Handmade in Italy, hand-stolen in Stepney. It’s as long as my arm; I wish it was as long as something else. Don’t think because these boxes are sealed up, they’re empty. The only man who sells empty boxes is the undertaker, and by the look of some of you lot today, I’d make more money with me measuring tape. Here, one price. Ten pound.
- Eddie: Did you say ten pound?
- Bacon: Are you deaf?
- Eddie: That’s a bargain. I’ll take one.
- Bacon: Squeeze in if you can. Left leg, right leg, your body will follow. They call it walking. You want one as well, darling? You do? That’s it, they’re waking up! Treat the wife. Treat somebody else’s wife. It’s a lot more fun if you don’t get caught. Hold on. You want one as well? Okay, darling, show me a bit of life, then. It’s no good standing out there like one o’clock half-struck. Buy them, you better buy them. These are not stolen, they just haven’t been paid for, and we can’t get them again, they’ve changed the bloody locks. Here, one for you. It’s no good coming back later when I’ve sold out. “Too late, too late” will be the cry when the man with the bargains has passed you by. If you got no money on you now, you’ll be crying tears as big as October cabbages.
According to their website, The Australian Defence Force is about to undertake the biggest disposal of military equipment since World War II.
Over the next 15 years the Australian Defence Force will replace or upgrade up to 85 per cent of its equipment.
As part of that, over the next ten years Defence will dispose of:
- up to 24 ships;
- up to 70 combat aircraft;
- up to 110 other aircraft;
- up to 120 helicopters;
- up to 600 armoured vehicles;
- up to 12,000 other vehicles; and
- a range of communications systems, weapons and explosive ordnance.
This represents 10 per cent of the current value of the entire Australian Government’s non-financial assets.
Anybody want a good pre-owned Frigate, F-111 bomber, or slightly used APC?