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question everything

(51,690 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:33 PM Mar 2025

Bill Maher had a pie chart showing that the Pentagon has the largest budget. $850 billion

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Musk called to eliminate the F-35 “one does not need it, use a drone.”

But now there will be an F-47.

The problem always was that this is the pork that members of congress bring to their districts. I remember in previous years when the Pentagon said they did not need this and that but they had to accept the items; they supported the local economy.

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marble falls

(71,019 posts)
1. They were fighting the F-35 from the time the Reagan admin started promoting it. It only took an extra 20+ ...
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:53 PM
Mar 2025

... years to get it operational. I remember thinking it had a stake in it's heart several times. I was self deluded.

Now we have two more unnecessary boondoggles in the works.

RockRaven

(18,688 posts)
2. The "local economy" excuses are LIES. Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:54 PM
Mar 2025
also support the local economy -- and even more broadly than defense spending does -- but these ghouls have no problem destroying those... Because they don't generate the same degree of campaign money and lucrative post-office corporate board or lobbying jobs as the MIC.
 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
3. Both trump and musk were predicting big cuts in Defense budget weeks ago. Guess political reality got to GOPers.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 11:10 PM
Mar 2025

Doubt it is time to dump piloted aircraft, but musk is likely right drones are future.

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