The trillion dollar plane

The F-35. This flying contraption is costing a BILLION dollars a month for the next 25 years. That's a lotta bucks and the damn thing doesn't even work correctly(yet). Aren't there other things that the US could be spending that much money on and is this thing even necessary? I mean is there any potential adversary in the world that can match our air superiority now? I dunno, some pretty crazy spending that doesn't even seem needed.



The US already outspends every other country combined.



https://www.cnbc.com/id/101664089

So long as Obama and Holder don't give them to Mexican drug cartels, I am good.

You know the thing is the term one billion is thrown around so much and the average Joe like me can't even fathom that much money, much less a trillion.

I mean I sometimes lay in bed and fantasize about winning the powerball when it reaches a 100 million. Thinking about all of the things I would do and see and all of the friends and family I would pay off there mortgages.

Yet when you talk a billion dollars a month can you imagine how many college tuitions that would pay or how many jobs, even if they were temporary you could create with that money.

If my math is correct at 4% interest you could spend $109,000 a day and never touch the principle on one billion dollars.

You are right it just boggles my mind how the powers to be have lost sight of the spending.

I worked for the county and I saw some pretty bizarre spending. My wife worked for the state and said it was ten times worse at that level. I guess at the federal level it is 100 times worse.

There's more waste, fraud and abuse in the US Military Industrial Complex than the US Healthcare Rackets....and that's a lot.

The rest of the industrialized world uses their tax dollars to build 21st century infrastructure. We use our tax dollars to pay for military contracts to build planes that dont fly...and to provide security to other countries that can pay for their own security but are perfectly happy to let us pay for them.

PJ you said a mouthful. A couple of good friends of mine are Marines. These friends tell me we have spent a ton of money and shed a lot of blood for countries that basically wipe their ass with us.

In many cases the attitude is, why should we step up to the plate when the U.S. will do it for us.

It's the plane to nowhere.

I remember back in the 1980's I was in the US Navy on a 7 month Mediterranean cruise on a guided missile cruiser (CG-34---USS Biddle). It was a conventional ship means it burned oil for propulsion, anyway I remember some time during that 7 month cruise they made an announcement that we just burned our one millionth gallon of oil on that cruise! If I remember correctly the ship got something like 6 feet to the gallon!
Just think of all of the oil that all of the ships in the Navy have used over the years.....boggles the mind!

weggie

oh yeah, and don't let the fact that we are kicking the shit out of third world country's (Iraq & Afghanistan) make you think we wont need that technology up and running perfectly if we ever had to face a Russia or China or someone a little more advanced militarily. We need to use this time wisely!
Better to have the technology and not need it, than need it and not have it.

weggie

A trillion dollars? No hay problema.

With our fiat-based monetary system, the Feds essentially have the power to print (create) any amount of new money out of thin air.

We ain’t gonna run out of money.

We’re gonna run out of air!