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Pentagon to end F-22 production
The Hill ^ | April 6, 2009 | Roxana Tiron

Posted on 04/06/2009 10:52:31 AM PDT by jazusamo

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To: Professor_Leonide

401 posted on 04/06/2009 5:49:21 PM PDT by 50mm (My respect for zero has reached zero)
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To: southernerwithanattitude

I agree with you about McCain. My brother said the prior Obama supporters are keeping a very low profile now.


402 posted on 04/06/2009 5:50:28 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER! Mary Fallin for OK Governor in 2010! Vote Gary for OK GOP Chair)
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To: southernerwithanattitude

Yes. I found a lot in her to admire. Any woman who can hunt a moose, butcher the carcass and drag it, cook it for dinner and store the meat for future consumption has my admiration. There were women like that who made our country great as the population spread across the continent to the west coast.

Funny how conservatives are really much more comfortable with powerful and talented women than liberals are.

You know, I wish Phyllis Schalafly could run for President. We sure could use someone like her, male or female.


403 posted on 04/06/2009 5:56:53 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: rlmorel

The snob was very clear in that juvenile video of his that he was going to kill development of future weapons systems. And it’s startlingly clear what he’s all about... I just can’t believe that Americans aren’t wising up to it at all.


404 posted on 04/06/2009 5:57:38 PM PDT by manapua
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To: PhiKapMom

Yes, the only ones that I know of where very quiet today after the news came out. Now the question is do we get any of the F-35 work in Marietta? The F-22s will finnish out in 2011 and we will still work on them here.

I’m going by the union hall tomorrow and make sure NONE of my dues money goes to any PACs.


405 posted on 04/06/2009 6:02:40 PM PDT by southernerwithanattitude ({new and improved redneck})
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To: Professor_Leonide; darkwing104

We live in fame.

You went down in flames.

Nothing can stop the U.S. Air Force!


406 posted on 04/06/2009 6:06:35 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: manapua

Here was something on that I posted just after the election. It is long, but the bottom line is...people don’t care. And that percentage of the population who think about the F22 program and why it may or may not be important is even much, much smaller. You might say “F22” to an average person in the street in New York City, and the response would be a nearly certain puzzlement. To them, it is outside their sphere of existence. “American Idol” (to use the most commonly mentioned example of an existence) In that light, I wrote the following:

Obama is a racist who spent twenty years listening to anti-American racist pap in a racist “church” and gave large sums of money to that “church”.

People don’t care.

Obama is an associate of a virulent anti-American radical terrorist, a member of a group who killed AMERICANS with bombs, who wished he had done more violence, whose most public moments in print are accompanied by a picture of him proudly and triumphantly standing on top of an American flag, the same flag I and my father served under, and my father was buried under. This man is one of Obama’s principal patrons, who by his own admission is “guilty as sin-free as a bird”, and quite proud of that.

People don’t care.

Obama is corrupt to the core, steered money towards his family (wife) and friends.

People don’t care.

Obama is an avowed socialist who believes in redistribution of wealth.

People don’t care.

Obama thinks higher taxes are the way to fix our problems.

People don’t care.

Obama thinks higher gasoline prices are good for us.

People don’t care.

Obama thinks guns should be banned.

People don’t care.

Obama is a devotee of Saul Alinsky’s techniques as described in “Rules for Radicals”, one of the most disgusting things I have ever read.

People don’t care.

Obama is probably not a citizen eligible for the Presidency under the guidelines of the Constitution and pointedly and arrogantly refuses to provide the documentation.

People don’t care.

I am disheartened about this election in ways I simply cannot describe, but most depressing and discouraging for me is that I worked hard as a citizen to understand the issues. I made the effort to evaluate and re-evaluate my stand on issues and make sure they were backed by logic and consistent with what was best for our nation.

My vote was trumped and negated by a damned ignorant idiot who came to the conclusion Obama was going to pay for her mortgage and her gasoline. My vote was worthless.

For the very first time in my life, on the basis of what I saw leading up to and on November 4, 2008, I came to the conclusion we are finished as a republic

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Now, I admit, I don’t feel much more optimistic today. But I haven’t given up hope...Hope. Look at that word. Amazing how the left took that word and played it like a violin in the ears of the Useful Idiots who were in that middle 30% of the electorate.

Just amazing. Of course, what is equally amazing is Ayn Rand’s portrayal of events today in “Atlas Shrugged”, and F.A. Hayek’s book “The Road to Serfdom”, and how it clearly lays out what is going on today.


407 posted on 04/06/2009 6:15:15 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: Professor_Leonide
Well, they ain’t around and soon neither will be the F-22.

A lot of things just go poof and are not around any more eh?
408 posted on 04/06/2009 6:21:35 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: Professor_Leonide
You obviously underestimated the usefulness of the VK squadron of F-22s


409 posted on 04/06/2009 6:21:35 PM PDT by 50mm (My respect for zero has reached zero)
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To: nutmeg

Just wait until we further cut our paltry production of submarines. Electric Boat is already on life support.


410 posted on 04/06/2009 6:33:08 PM PDT by rmlew ( The SAVE and GIVE acts are institutioning Corvee. Where's the outtrage!)
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To: Snickering Hound
All you have done is shown why we need more than 183 of these, since we need more than 70 active at any time.

I do think that we should purcahse a few new F-15s (Either E+ or Silent Eagles), maybe some upgraided replacements for C models, and F-16 Block 60/62s. Our current F-15 fleet is almost worn out.
411 posted on 04/06/2009 6:37:26 PM PDT by rmlew ( The SAVE and GIVE acts are institutioning Corvee. Where's the outtrage!)
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To: east1234; tyke
Reminds me of the armuements taht we didn't need a large military when facing the USSR. Of course said arguement quickly leads to appeasement. Fortunately, we did not follow that strategy before.
Moreover, it ignores the proxy wars and limited wars. We fought the Korean conflict without nukes despite fighting China and Soviet air units.
412 posted on 04/06/2009 6:39:51 PM PDT by rmlew ( The SAVE and GIVE acts are institutioning Corvee. Where's the outtrage!)
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To: GBA

“Stupid, dangerously naive congress. Why is it when congress screws up everyone feels it but them?”

Because they will be safe in the underground bunkers built for them, the elite, while the normal citizen is pounded up because of Congress’ ignorance.


413 posted on 04/06/2009 7:11:29 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
I'd rather fight a war with the F-22, wouldn't you?

True, but it is still hard to get my head around it. Actually the only threat to an F-22 is another F-22.
414 posted on 04/06/2009 7:12:42 PM PDT by microgood
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To: Sleeping Freeper
Now you know why he was so easy about keeping Gates on as SecDefense.
415 posted on 04/06/2009 7:19:16 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: jazusamo

Way to piss away billions in R&D costs.


416 posted on 04/06/2009 7:20:23 PM PDT by Doohickey (The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
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To: rlmorel
No matter how much history we live through and survive, we still find a way to repeat it.

These days, we seem to want to repeat the 1930s financially and militarily only with the new belief that we are invincible and our only enemies are desert dwelling robe wearers with less than a third grade education. We are going to get schooled...again.

417 posted on 04/06/2009 7:20:26 PM PDT by GBA
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To: microgood

Development costs are built in to the cost of the aircraft. Buy more airframes and the price per unit goes down.


418 posted on 04/06/2009 7:21:54 PM PDT by Doohickey (The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
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To: microgood
"Actually the only threat to an F-22 is another F-22."

You forgot Gates, congress and obama.

419 posted on 04/06/2009 7:23:59 PM PDT by GBA
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To: microgood
"True, but it is still hard to get my head around it. Actually the only threat to an F-22 is another F-22."

Seems the threat is the DemocRat Congress and the Marxist-in-Chief...
420 posted on 04/06/2009 7:24:47 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (1st call: Abbas. 1st interview: Al Arabiya. 1st energy decision: halt drilling in UT. Arabs 1st!)
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