weve known for YEARS what a Drama Queen he was but have never seen him in his royal garb until tonight..
Posted on 05/10/2014 7:05:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Department of Defense awarded a contract on Wednesday to a Connecticut company that will build a fleet of helicopters to replace the Marine One fleet that ferries U.S. presidents short distances.
The contract, given to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, will cost an initial $1,244,677,064 'for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the Presidential Helicopter Replacement program.' For that price the U.S. Navy will get six test aircraft and all the necessary research & development.
The Pentagon made a similar attempt to replace the aging fleet of Sikorsky choppers, spending $3.2 billion on a landing pad to nowhere.
Adding in the likely $17 billion price tag for the new project – a number estimated by the Congressional Budget Office – the $20 billion total makes the fleet the most expensive helicopters ever built.
The CBO reports that the projected cost also 'does not include costs to keep the 19 existing presidential helicopters in operation until they are replaced by new helicopters.'
During a White House fiscal responsibility summit a month after President Barack Obama took office, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain mocked the boondoggle helicopter upgrade project that was later shelved.
'Your helicopter is now going to cost as much as Air Force One,' McCain said. 'I don't think there's any more graphic demonstration of how good ideas have cost taxpayers an enormous amount of money.'(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
(A) I'd rather have the F-22s…
(B) Remember that it was McCain [et al] who really pushed killing the F-22!
His “private” fleet?
I don’t think I would use that term
Just what would Uppity Obie look like waving to adoring fellow Democrat travelers from inside his Green Bubble Tank Top?
Rumor has it that only a tank with a green bubble top has the right of way on all the roads of his Obamanation.
BTW, would the stylish flecks of gray on his nappy head turn green under the Green Tank Top Bubble?
That would make even Hitler green with envy!
$20b is insane, aren’t helicopters cost around $10m/ea
> His “private” fleet?
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> I don’t think I would use that term
The comment was more on the value of F-22s vs. that of these fancy-choppers... and indirectly showing how I perceive the elite to prioritize: the F-22s would have protected the people, these choppers are essentially the airborne equivalent of armored-car/luxury-car hybrids and would protect the elite.
my most fervent prayer is that He just ends obama. any way is acceptable. impeachment, cancer, natural disaster, sinkhole, errant golf ball to the temple, biden causing him a stroke, whatever.
2009: Obama said the helicopter was perfectly adequate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/us/politics/24chopper.html?_r=0
And to think ... the Democrats excoriated Nancy Reagan for ordering new White House china back in the day. For a heck of a lot less money.
The CH-47 Chinook big enough and with enough lift to carry extra armor and anything else needed
Proven design and much cheaper
No president is this important. They are replaceable - it is why we have vice-presidents. Insanity.
Hell, BathHouse Benghazi Barry-—why dontcha just buy fifteen trillion lbs of coke with taxpayer money and be done with it?
Instead of rubbing OUR noses in it, rub YOUR nose in it.
Put Cloward/Piven on steroids and spare us the melodrama-SHEESH!
It should how does one expect for the Wookie to fit in?
She'd probably auction them and put the money to good use.
If the B-52's are still airworthy...
One would think that if a military transport is good
enough and safe enough for citizen soldiers it should
be good enogh for the chief exe.
This Bastard is stripping the military and he finds this absurd
amount for HIS helicopter!
Can the Congress block this?.
And to think ... the Democrats excoriated Nancy Reagan for ordering new White House china back in the day. For a heck of a lot less money.
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And they DIDN’T blast the Clintons for stealing the china and silverware, plus other items, when they left the White House.
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