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Current estimated total cost for just one of many fighter jet programs (F-35 joint strike fighter): $397 billion. That's when we're barely making noise about so
by superuser2 13y ago
Current estimated total cost for just one of many fighter jet programs (F-35 joint strike fighter): $397 billion. That's when we're barely making noise about something that unequivocally provides no national security benefit unless we're planning on aerial dogfighting like it's WWI. There are dozens of similarly useless or near-useless defense spending programs, like the tanks the Army keeps saying it doesn't want.
Imagine what we could spend on an actual threat.
- saalweachter 13y agoThat's $397 billion over many years; I am suggesting a target of $100 billion per year. That's not to say we couldn't or wouldn't spend in excess of $100 billion per year on a boondoggle. We've done it before and we'll do it again. But I think $100 billion is the point at which money even becomes an issue. $1 or $10 billion and there's barely a point in trying.