Socks and Congress

If an ad in a local newspaper said i could buy socks this weekend for $2.00, I'd head down to the store. When I pick up the socks and go to the register they ring up as $5.84. What should I do?

The very next day another ad in another local newspaper said i could buy these very same socks this weekend for $2.00. I pick up the socks and go to the register and they ring up as $7.04. What should I do?

I would cease buying socks from these assholes; $12.88 is not $4.00, even using Republican math.

Congress, in it's infinite wisdom, said "damn, that's expensive" and promptly ordered another dozen or so socks for $5.00 dollars each. (From this day forward socks now cost $5.00.)

Here's the thing about socks: they serve their intended purpose when you put them on your feet. I don't need to buy additional things to make the socks work; they just do.

In this fable, socks are littoral combat ships. Multiply the numbers by one million. Instead of paying $200 million dollars for each of these 'wonders' we are now paying $500 million dollars (half a billion dollars) each.

And the best part about littoral combat ships is the mission modules are not completed AND the crew size is too small.



NOTE: LCS 1 cost $584 million dollars delivered with no mission modules. LCS 2 cost $704 million dollars delivered with no mission modules.