An F-35 Lightning II sits on stage during the United Kingdom F-35 delivery ceremony on July 19, 2012, at Lockheed Martin Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas.
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U.S. taxpayers are no strangers to getting saddled with monstrously expensive weapons programs at the expense of basic needs like food, shelter and education. The Pentagon paid $44 billion for 21 very fragile B-2 stealth bombers, few of which still fly in combat roles. The F-22 fighter, coming in at more than $350 million per plane, was built to combat Cold War adversaries who ceased to exist six years before the first jet rolled off the production line. The sticker price for Ronald Reagan’s harebrained “Star Wars” missile defense program stands at around $60 billion.
Alas, there always seems to be more room at the Pentagon trough. Enter the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft.
“Japan Air Self Defense Force Stands Up First F-35A Lightning II Fighter Squadron,” announced the April 1 headline in The Diplomat, a publication focusing on Asia-Pacific news. “This is a […]
Yes in addition think of all the “radical socialist agenda” that could have been funded. Free/low cost college, medicare for all, infrastructure including water systems, public transit, high-speed rail, green new deal, paying off student debt and so on. The trillions of dollars poured down the black hole of the pentagon is beyond evil and continues to be destructive to our spiritual, moral and economic welfare. The wealth that is shoveled down the hole is generally done without much resistance from any quarter.
You’re right Will, but who can have the nerve to stand up against the military-industrial-banking-complex? They’ve even got the lawyers and judges who are more on their side than the people’s side. Only a revolution will change anything, but who is the winner going to be?