Heh. Heh heh, ha ha ha, HO HO HO HEE HEE HEE

In what universe will that happen?

Now, take a look at these GOP Clowns again....are you not entertained, folks?

But try to give a kid a decent breakfast and lunch at school and they start squealing like pigs!

I truly believe racism is the heart of this problem. Some would rather see a dozen white kids go hungry then feed one hungry child they perceive as not white.

They also can't picture any circumstances where this aircraft would be used against "Good Christian White Folk" like themselves.

Of course the entire F-35 program is a scam. In return for diverting huge amounts of money to this rotten turkey, politicians get major donations to their campaigns and major gains in their supposedly "blind" stock portfolios. Our national banking system is run in a similar manner.

My reply to that is "At the rate things are going, I don't see this plane doing it either."

They're so full of shit.

We already have a wing/squadron/whatever of F16s that have destroyed home values because of the noise pollution. These unsafe-at-any-speed, cost-overrun, MIC manna from heaven, F-35's have a huge increase in decibels and will probably obliterate large neighborhoods within 2-3 miles. The BTV airport is nestled nicely between the Green Mountains and Burlington and is surrounded by homes and businesses.

Why are they being slated for this otherwise idyllic spot? Because our wonderful congressional representatives (Sanders, Leahy, Welch) want them. Probably more likely that they are afraid to speak out against them.

for the price of a single F-35. And the F-15s actually work.

Not stealthy, but badass. For that matter, I would not want to be on the receiving end of hostile fire from an F-16. How "cheap" are they?

about $50 million a piece, compared to $350 million for the F-35.

It would have still been more expensive than older F-15s, but at least it is a proven airframe. Although I wouldn't count on the $100m estimated cost being something that could be relied upon. Those things have a tendency to change. The way they do things with contractors sees to encourage this ineffective waste.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_F-15SE_Silent_Eagle

Realistically, given what the Russians, Indians and Chinese are developing, we do need a next gen fighter...but we already have one. Yeah, it's also had wicked overruns and is still suffering teething problems, but the decision to scrap that program to divert $$ to the JSF was beyond idiocy. For a fraction of the JSF costs, we could have had a capable naval variant of the Raptor, and gotten the kinks worked out, and produced tons.

I think the decision not to export it was the killer, god forbid the corporations not be allowed to peddle their wares globally..

If I buy something at work and it doesn't work as per our initial agreements, then I won't pay the people who made it. If I paid them, the company I work for would immediately fire me, pursue legal action against the supplier, and pursue legal action against me personally.

A long time ago in a land far away, I put out a contract for a new machine we needed. In the bid specs I put "this device must do (fill in very secret thing we needed to do) and it must also do (fill in other very secret thing)."

Ford Aerospace got the contract.

Nine months later we got the machine. "We added forty (very secret things) to it, to enhance your mission capabilities." And left out the two I needed. We spent a million five on a box that absolutely would not do what we paid for. Good thing a couple of us knew how to solder...