FACED WITH F-35 FAILURES, COSTS -- CONGRESS SAYS TO PUSH ON
Waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep! Neck deep! Soon even a
Tall man'll be over his head, we're
Waist deep in the Big Muddy!
And the big fool says to push on!
-- Pete Seeger
By William Boardman
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WHAT IF
ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL FITS NOBODY?
According to one of its supporters,
the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is not "what our troops need," is "too costly "
and "poorly managed," and its "present difficulties are too numerous to
detail"."
The F-35 is a case study of government failure at all levels -- civilian and military, federal, state, local, even airport authority. Not one critical government agency is meeting its obligation to protect the people it presumably represents. Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT, who wrote the F-35 critique above, is hardly unique as an illustration of how government fails, but he sees no alternative to failure.
The F-35 is a nuclear-capable weapon of mass destruction
that was supposed to be the "fighter of the future" when it was undertaken in
2001. Now, more than a decade
overdue and more than 100% over budget, the plane is expected to cost $1.5 trillion over its useful life, of which
about $400 billion has already been spent.
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