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Well we did it for the F-35. Defense pork/corruption is a liability in economic war. We need to wake up and realize that China is kicking it into high gear.
by AtlasBarfed 6y ago
Well we did it for the F-35.
Defense pork/corruption is a liability in economic war. We need to wake up and realize that China is kicking it into high gear.
- klodolph 6y agoDo note that there is also plenty of pork/corruption in China. Massive amounts. We just understand the US pork/corruption better because we can read English-language news sources.
- Iolaum 6y agoAnd because the English language news sources are allowed to publish such things before the government approves them.
- pie420 6y agoThe F-35 seems to be selling like hotcakes, from looking at the orders american allies have for the plane. Lockheed is essentially a wing of the department of defence and lot of the "project overruns" are actually dollars spent on R&D and technology development. Defense pork is bad, but giving billions of dollars to aerospace, electronics, and radar engineers is a fantastic way to maintain an economic edge, especially when Lockheed, SpaceX, and Boeing dominate the global market thanks to US government funding