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Owl

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10. How about we S-can this F35 boondoggle, and

Reply to Golden Raisin (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 02:49 PM

Apr 2015

instead give all these MIC-type companies in all 50 states the same $ to engineer solutions and products for the common good?

Why are the brilliant minds of these scientists and engineers wasted on worthless crap?

Subsidize the same $ with our tax money but change the focus?

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New Red Alert for Billions-Over-Budget F-35 Fighter [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2015 OP

Piece of crap sled looking for a mission. A HERETIC I AM Apr 2015 #1

Meanwhile... Golden Raisin Apr 2015 #2

How about we S-can this F35 boondoggle, and Owl Apr 2015 #10

Osama bin Laden Turbineguy Apr 2015 #3

Hopefully there will be some crossover technology developed from this... bluesbassman Apr 2015 #4

Here: a tradable DOD Contract Cost Overrun Security. Buy it bundled with Credit Default Swaps. leveymg Apr 2015 #6

Isn't quite the crossover technology I was thinking of... bluesbassman Apr 2015 #9

It's not a new concept. The Rothschild banking family lent to all sides in European wars- effective leveymg Apr 2015 #11

I don't understand why the Gov't doesn't sue Pratt&Whit $1.2B instead of granting that cost overrun leveymg Apr 2015 #5

Meanwhile... progressoid Apr 2015 #7

But, they may come in handy if the mighty Burundian Air Force launches a kite attck on Malibu. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2015 #8