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Warpy

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1. Overengineered pieces of crap that don't work and have unlimited cost overrun protection

Reply to MattSh (Original post)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 04:44 AM

Nov 2015

That's where our universal health care, subsidized day care, paid state college tuition, upgraded electrical grid, fully repaired dams and bridges, and a million other things went, into that five sided black hole in Arlington, VA.

That's why we can't have nice things: billionaires can only sleep well at night when they think a bloated military will protect their money.

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The F-35 Could Provide 23 Years of Free College for Everyone [View all] MattSh Nov 2015 OP

Overengineered pieces of crap that don't work and have unlimited cost overrun protection Warpy Nov 2015 #1

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