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In reply to the discussion: That fucking blimp cost 1.4b dollars. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)17. Train of thought wandering way over. :) It was offered for perspective
and a view from a slightly different angle.
Ultimately, government spending IS the result of the decisions of the citizens it belongs to. You know, WinkyDink, representative government of the people, by the people, and for the people? We're incredibly improvident and wasteful both ways, although I have no idea if, or how much, this blimp is an example of that. At least it wasn't used one time and sent off to thousands of landfills.
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I'm not even sure Americans are allowed to know how much money Raytheon sucks from the life blood of
Monk06
Oct 2015
#4
"You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has
underahedgerow
Oct 2015
#59
Do you really think the people of this country want to cut, say, Social Security to
Marr
Nov 2015
#105
Yeah, and got a hell of a lot more return than we did for this wayward blimp, too.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2015
#57
And ironically, that sentence, said with much conviction, doesn't really mean anything.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2015
#65
Blimps, hammers, toilet seats.. ad infinitum. What is a billion dollars here or there?
Paper Roses
Oct 2015
#20
1982 - I remember it well for some odd reason despite thinking it happened in the seventies
Brother Buzz
Oct 2015
#49
"...there are only two of these blimps in..." < One.One of these blimps in the world...
jtuck004
Oct 2015
#50
Um uh, you're so right. When we get into the mass production of fucking blimps
Warren Stupidity
Nov 2015
#76
Actually it did. The program is kaput. Total output two fucking blimps.
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2015
#64
what the fuck! I could have made them one for just a cool billion or so.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2015
#56
well, we probably need it more than a new hospital for vets said absolutely no one.
librechik
Oct 2015
#60
They have more of those billion dollar ballons too, all authorised by our Pentagon big spenders.
Sunlei
Oct 2015
#62
So 1.4b price tag is perfectly justifiable for more damned useless war shit?!!!!
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#86
Oh good, just promote more war shit for violent minded war mongers.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#96
Preemptive War and Broadsweep National Security are neither rational, reasonable nor ethical,
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#98
It would be an opinion if it were not for the FACT war and its ugly tentacles are destroying the earth.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#100
It's going to take a radical shift in the violent minds and hardened hearts of the oligarchy.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#103