I am sick of the Military Industrial Complex getting whatever they want from DC. Nobody on God's green earth has the fire power the US does. The Halliburton's/Blackwater's/Xe's of this country have made bundles of money from the endless wars they have talked the GOP into engaging in.
BTW, why is Canada getting these planes cheaper than the US? People, wake up & smell the coffee. The Pentagon is going to say anything to get a new weapon system. Just remember, the Pentagon is in the business of WAR!
The money wasted on these weapon systems could rebuild this country. After 30+ years of Reagonomics there is no "fat" on the governments bones. The Pentagon needs to go on a financial fast so we can do "nation building" at home.
Is adding $1.6 trillion to the national debt for the F-35 program a good idea?
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The Pentagon has plans to buy 2,443 of them over a span of many years, at a cost of $661 million per plane. Canada has plans to buy 65 planes, for a price of $461 million each. The total cost of the U.S. purchase is slightly more than $1.6 trillion.
Every dollar spent on there planes either means a dollar less in spending that is available for other purposes such as fixing our infrastructure, or an extra dollar in taxes, or an extra dollar added to the debt. If the program were to be cancelled, we could spend $500 billion on fixing roads and bridges and our interstate highways, and give Americans a $500 billion tax cut, and pay down the debt by $500 billion, and STILL have $100 billion left over.
Every dollar spent on there planes either means a dollar less in spending that is available for other purposes such as fixing our infrastructure, or an extra dollar in taxes, or an extra dollar added to the debt. If the program were to be cancelled, we could spend $500 billion on fixing roads and bridges and our interstate highways, and give Americans a $500 billion tax cut, and pay down the debt by $500 billion, and STILL have $100 billion left over.
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GuruA2J~#IOKIYAR~612 BLOCKT 2012/04/08 18:05:16
This crap needs to end..
cities, we aren't going to be dropping bombs anyway, so maybe we need to spend the money on something else, like a fence across our southern border?
Is there an explanation (other than the obvious) why the U.S. will pay $200 million more for each plane than Canada?
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