2016 Postmortem

elias49

(4,259 posts) Tue Feb 9, 2016, 04:16 PM Feb 2016

If we'd just can the F35, we could send everyone to college and come out $500bn ahead!

$500,000,000,000. Think about it.
Do we need the F35 more than education and health care?

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If we'd just can the F35, we could send everyone to college and come out $500bn ahead! (Original Post) elias49 Feb 2016 OP

And if we confiscated the money those... scscholar Feb 2016 #1

Yet, the assholes in the Pentagon want to scuttle the A-10, without having a replacement! TheBlackAdder Feb 2016 #2

That's political within the Pentagon. jeff47 Feb 2016 #8

But then the executives over at the military industrial complex might have to do without... liberal N proud Feb 2016 #3

Not to mention speaktruthtopower Feb 2016 #7

But hillary promised them to israel SwampG8r Feb 2016 #4

Yeah, good luck. VulgarPoet Feb 2016 #5

It works for me. Vinca Feb 2016 #6

scscholar

(2,902 posts)

1. And if we confiscated the money those...

Reply to elias49 (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 04:20 PM

Feb 2016

corporations made from this corporate welfare, then we could probably also pay for grad school!

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)

2. Yet, the assholes in the Pentagon want to scuttle the A-10, without having a replacement!

Reply to elias49 (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 04:23 PM

Feb 2016

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It's operational costs are fractions of an F-35 and provides strike capabilities unrivaled by any battlefield aircraft!

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jeff47

(26,549 posts)

8. That's political within the Pentagon.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 05:39 PM

Feb 2016

The Air Force needs the Army to not complain too much about the F-35. So the Air Force threatens to pull the A-10 to keep the army quiet about the F-35.

That way, all the branches want the F-35!

(It doesn't help that the A-10 isn't "sexy&quot

liberal N proud

(61,203 posts)

3. But then the executives over at the military industrial complex might have to do without...

Reply to elias49 (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 04:24 PM

Feb 2016

a new yacht or jet or a mansion or two.

Priorities, priorities!

speaktruthtopower

(800 posts)

7. Not to mention

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 04:42 PM

Feb 2016

the banks that will own today's college grads until they're 50.

SwampG8r

(10,287 posts)

4. But hillary promised them to israel

Reply to elias49 (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 04:36 PM

Feb 2016

She has backorders.for it .

VulgarPoet

(2,872 posts)

5. Yeah, good luck.

Reply to elias49 (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 04:37 PM

Feb 2016

They want to shitcan one of the greatest CAS aircraft in history.... For a failed Swiss Army Knife of a jet that is currently, a hemorrhage of money. But hey, the military-industrial complex still profits. What's it matter if we lose a couple hundred pilots, right?

Vinca

(54,330 posts)

6. It works for me.

Reply to elias49 (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 04:40 PM

Feb 2016

Half the machinery they order up is only to keep jobs in some Congressman's district so they'll be re-elected again. There have been pieces of equipment that have come off the manufacturing line and gone straight to the bone yard.

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