They used to say "a million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking about real money." So how much is a trillion? It's ONE MILLION MILLION DOLLARS! It's enough to write a check for $3,000 to every man woman and child in the U.S.
Pierre Sprey, designer of the F16, explains why the F-35 -- a TRILLION dollar project of three separate branches of the armed forces -- is a "pretense ... a kludge ... a turkey ... exceptionally dumb ... not good at anything ... will fail time and time again." The point? "The point is to spend money ... for the U.S. congress to send money to Lockheed, that's the real mission of the airplane."
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Pierre Sprey, designer of the F16, explains why the F-35 -- a TRILLION dollar project of three separate branches of the armed forces -- is a "pretense ... a kludge ... a turkey ... exceptionally dumb ... not good at anything ... will fail time and time again." The point? "The point is to spend money ... for the U.S. congress to send money to Lockheed, that's the real mission of the airplane."
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