Toon: Guess Which One Gets $1 Trillion from CONgress?
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Joshua from the movie Wargames...
toughie.
Oh my gosh-----------help me
I have sweat rolling down my brow ----------because I might be wrong
Let me try,
The F-35, the same aircraft that had a 3rd stage turbine blade crack because it was rubbing the blade against core turbine wall when the heat inside the core caused the turbine blade to expand the ceramic coating on the blade.
Because the tolerance measurements and the heat caused it to crack and grounded the entire flight program for flight operation prior to going over to the air show in England, and it only took a year to correct, causing more overruns .
And now the operational F-35B (Marines) squadron is not up to complete snuff, but to make it look good the bean counters, are saying they will fix the glitches when they arise, just so they can fly the A/C and say to the public it is operational.
They are over budget-----------must be great to have a single source supplier of engines -----Pratt and Whitney with a cost of around 85 million for each engine , since it is a single engine A/C.
The same aircraft F-35 system, that had to go back to the drawing board, because at one time the HUD (heads up display) was and had a issue during night time flying parameters with the night vision goggles incorporated in the helmet having a glare feedback unto the pilot face causing disorientation .
And the 360 degree face shield was incorrectly putting images on the face shield, because the instrument panels which were being fed to the HUD display was crowding the information and it had to much information for the pilot to digest the aircrafts operating parameters for situational awareness.
At a cost of overrun of around 900 million to correct, if I remember correctly, because they or I should say we the taxpayers had to change the developer and the manufacturer and use a system from another supplier, which drove up costs to correct this big problem, very big problem.
Then they had to redesign the flight decks for the STOVAL A/C, because the heat being generated when hovering to land on the deck was melting the flight decks and causing them to buckle, when they were landing in the Harrier mode configuration, so the flight decks had to be modified to have heat shield placed.
They (Lockheed) had to correct the arresting gear because they were not catching the first arresting wire at the flight station in Maryland because it would jump over the wire and was to short so the plane had to bolt and try again and fail, so they had to land like they were on land.
Just little things, no big deal in the right wing world of defense spending----------we got taxpayers funding a lemon
But we the tax payers have right wing ideologues spending 612 Billion more for the military industry complex and for the state of Texas.
The same state that wants to succeed from the U.S.
And then to compensate this costs, we have the same right wing libertarian hypocrites like Boehner and his band of congressman like Mica, going around that Amtrak is being run like Russia----
No jerk, its because you are running like it was Russia with your right wing cold war mentality, with your crew having people die on a rail system that was built in the 1970------------
Great priorities, saying, see government programs fail so we need to privatize the infrastructure .
They also have blood on there collective hands because you have a right wing ideologue, that wants to gut the funding for commerce / commuter traffic and have it privatize for greed.
Just like there right wing hypocrite Ronald Reagan and his rant of hypocrisy about government.
Then have Boehner walk up to a microphone and say that was a stupid question about the funding of Amtrak and how his agenda and the lack of funding and the deaths his right wing group have been causing, are the problem when they just passed a bill to fund defense and then turn right around and to gut Amtrak.
I just wonder which lobbyist gave him (Boehner) checks to hand out on the floor of congress that had blood on them to privatize Amtrak like the Richard Branson business model in Britain
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/truth-richard-branson-virgin-rail-profits
I work in the aviation industry and see the ramifications of what these hypocrites are trying to do to the FAA.
Its like all right wing libertarian thinking.
If is doesn't have or make a profit in the government sell to the lowest bidder in the private industry and then they, can sit back and get there corrupt payola with the scheme of making money off it and then pardon the expression screwing the public commons so that we can all be denied life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness based on there pure greed -------------it is just hypocritical
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TPTB are in the process of dismantling many vital aspects of our national defense including the steel industry. Maybe TPTB actually don't give a single fuck about this nation.
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All it takes is to say, "We've got something new and cool" and all of the prior stuff that was new and cool is now considered to be junk.
Building our air force is a steady jobs program.
The Three Stooges? 
