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Kinda like Independence Day movie where the General was asking, "Where do you get funding for this???" And Julius remarked, "What? you don't really think they spend 20,000 dollars on a Hammer? 30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?" 😂
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: zatara
Except they usually don't. Those stories all started with the $600 hammer, which it turns out, was all on paper. The actual cost of the hammer was no more than you'd pay in any hardware store.
The military bought the hammer, Kelman explained, bundled into one bulk purchase of many different spare parts. But when the contractors allocated their engineering expenses among the individual spare parts on the list-a bookkeeping exercise that had no effect on the price the Pentagon paid overall-they simply treated every item the same. So the hammer, originally $15, picked up the same amount of research and development overhead-$420-as each of the highly technical components, recalled retired procurement official LeRoy Haugh. (Later news stories inflated the $435 figure to $600.)
originally posted by: carewemust
Aren't tax revenues down due to tax cuts? Also, 44% of Americans pay NO Federal Taxes.
Source: www.marketwatch.com...
Maybe America is PRINTING extra money to spend. Better to print, than to borrow from China, isn't it?
originally posted by: drewlander
originally posted by: Skid Mark
a reply to: TrueAmerican
That's like the time they wanted to find out which ketchup was better. Also the time that they made a new branch of the military called the space force.
Space force likely already existed just not as its own branch.
originally posted by: Skid Mark
a reply to: TrueAmerican
That's like the time they wanted to find out which ketchup was better. Also the time that they made a new branch of the military called the space force.
originally posted by: openminded2011
originally posted by: Skid Mark
a reply to: TrueAmerican
That's like the time they wanted to find out which ketchup was better. Also the time that they made a new branch of the military called the space force.
Whoever dominates the high ground of space will dominate the world. I would rather that not be China or Russia.
originally posted by: Creep Thumper
originally posted by: openminded2011
originally posted by: Skid Mark
a reply to: TrueAmerican
That's like the time they wanted to find out which ketchup was better. Also the time that they made a new branch of the military called the space force.
Whoever dominates the high ground of space will dominate the world. I would rather that not be China or Russia.
Obama murdered our manned space program. We need to retake supremacy.
originally posted by: crayzeed
a reply to: TrueAmerican
CHICKEN FEED!!!!!
You've got two go to frighteners that people on here use:-
Russia
China
With a new one just added.
Aliens.
Millions of $s nothing. Last year the defence budget was $648 BILLION. That's billion not million. Oh, and they lost about $21 billion that they cannot account for.
Can ANYONE on here come up with a sincere convincing answer as to why America needs anywhere near this amount of defence.
Russia?? Russia can just about look after itself never mind about "NATO" countries or even the far off America.
China?? China has no intentions of attacking any US land and as I've said before < with the US deep in the cesspit, If China wanted America it would just buy it.
Now the biggie go to. ALIENS. "We must defends ourselves against alien invasion". There is not even an ounce of evidence that any alien race is going to try to take America.
But the nice bit about that is, on the one hand to frighten you of alien invasion, and on the other hand, Wait for it, according to the government aliens don't exist.
Now anybody want to answer just what is American DEFENCE for. And don't come out with the BS of fighting terrorists all over the world.