So every war needs to be easy for the us to win.

How could you possibly not think that the government wastes money just as badly in defense spending as it does in healthcare spending? That makes no sense

That's a separate social program that's strictly off limits to every other government pool of money.

@Troye 11 aircraft carriers

Vs nothing productive

Thats just one example

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@Mersenne I wasn't claiming they were being siphoned to the millitary specifically. Only that they are gone

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@Louis The key word here is *wastes*. I'm not claiming that there aren't areas where are military could be improved. I'm saying there is a massive fucking pit that all our money is getting sucked into from every branch of government. Wherever that money is going its getting wasted

Miltary does not waste as much money as you think

F35 for example was a legit program with one problem that made it a money sink

An audit would have wasted all that money and cancelled the f35

After being so close to done

The f35 all things considered was not that bad

But thats just the example people make

The problem was thinking that having one chassis for three different models would make it cheaper.

It didnt

To be honest, the F-35 was a considerable fucking waste of funding. I would advocate the F-22 as a versatile and reliable alternative to the F-35.

The F35 *is* not all that bad, but it *was* all that bad before they got their act together and stopped trying to 10-up SAAB

F-22 no

F-22 is a air superiority fighter

And super fucking expensive per unit

f35 in general purpose

As much as i like the f-22

It is not general purpose

And that's the problem. An air superiority aircraft should never be cheaper than a general purpose fighter jet.

It wasnt

per unit

I'm just reading the writing on the wall. The F-35 is arguably the premier funding fuck-up for 2018.

zumwalt tbh

zumwalt was the same thing as the f22

pretty much

No

except zumwalt production was canceled earlier

The f22 can shoot its guns and the USAF will still have money left over after a few volleys

F35 costs 85 million per unit

Christ that hurts to read

f22 costs 150 million per unit