OT F-35 Program.. $1.5 Trillion. Lockheed Martin benefits ?

[HLS]

http://f35baddeal.com/

Jet that ate the Pentagon. Watch the video.
Couldn’t this money have been used to repair bridges & other failing infrastructure ?

[Coronita]

Yeah, but the F35 is sooooo cool…

[no_such_reality]

[quote]$1.5 trillion
Amount it could cost to develop, build, fly and maintain all the F-35s on order for 55 years — the lives of the planes — according to Pentagon estimates cited by Bloomberg.[/Quote]

55 years…

This years deficit is expect around $426 billion.

So the annual run amounts to 6.4% of this years deficit.
The total 55 year costs is equal to just the deficit that Bush transitioned to Obama. It’s 1/5 the total increase in debt since Obama took office.

How’d they spend the 7 billion in the last seven years on those shovel ready jobs?

Instead of whining about the next 55 years, start asking what They did with fives times that amount in the last seven.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=flu]Yeah, but the F35 is sooooo cool…[/quote]

Haha. Soooooo cool and very badass.

For perspective the stimulus to save us from the 2008 recession was $800 billion. F35 almost double the amount.

[flyer]

Definitely a flawed aircraft. Fighter jets are a different breed from the “Jumbos” I fly, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

[Anonymous]

[quote=flu]Yeah, but the F35 is sooooo cool…[/quote]

Fighter planes in general are cool, but the F-35 is relatively disappointing in its coolness.

[Anonymous]

[quote=no_such_reality]How’d they spend the 7 billion in the last seven years on those shovel ready jobs?[/quote]

Some argue that it was not spent in a productive way.

But even using the most pessimistic of numbers, stimulus spending was no less productive than the billions that were spent on the F-35.

Welfare jobs are welfare jobs, regardless of the employer.

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