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Don’t let the military off the hook for piddling money away. No-bid contracting and lazy spec writers are just a couple of weak spots. Around 1970 we were building Fast Attack NUKE submarines for 50 million$ more or less and that held steady into the 90’s. Now we spend over one billion$ to build one. That’s 20X in less than half a century which is way past inflation.
And why do we spend 100 million$ to build an F-35 fighter jet? I think I could do that with solid gold rivets. How do we pound that much money into ONE little airplane? We’ve lost a couple , it seems, to pilot error. Could we spend a few more bucks to teach Sky King how to fly them?
G’nite, lj! G’nite, y’all!
