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Originally posted by expsychogeographer
reply to post by snarky412
That's nothing compared to what we spend on, say, a single F35.
The fact that it's going toward something good for a change is nice, though, especially since the Third World is quickly becoming the primary source of greenhouse gas emissions.edit on 23-11-2012 by expsychogeographer because: (no reason given)
thinkprogress.org... ile=nc
Now, despite a worldwide uproar over the Bank’s interest in one of the world’s largest coal ‘mega-mines’ in Australia, it has been linked to another Australian mega mine that would bring coal across the Great Barrier Reef. Underwriting this potential destruction of the Great Barrier Reef is an unacceptable use of U.S. tax payer dollars — and it’s time Ex-Im Bank came clean on its involvement.
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It got so bad that the Sierra Club wrote an open letter to President Fred Hochberg after we witnessed first hand the destruction these projects are wreaking on communities and livelihoods (check out our blog on the Sasan coal project in India).
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So how did President Hochberg react? By quietly talking with another Indian company to finance another mega mine – this time with Adani group whose record of violations would give most institutions pause.
Originally posted by Grimpachi
reply to post by snarky412
Last I checked the failure rate for renewable energy initiatives has been just above 1%. Wow what a horrible record that is. I mean usually the government failure rate is much higher than that. Private investments are just around 40%. But who care about facts right.
It is amazing how people can be blinded by hate but of course if the only news a person watches is from Fox then I understand how a person can be so misinformed and angry.
The F35 program is going to cost us around 1.45 trillion dollars over the next 50 years. That's for a plane that will probably never see any combat whatsoever.
WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Singapore is showing increased interest in buying Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a top executive with the company said late on Thursday, a week after China unveiled a second stealth fighter called the J-31.
Lockheed is building three variants of the stealthy warplane for the U.S. military and eight international partners -- Britain, Australia, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands, which are helping fund the plane's development.
Singapore became a security partner on the international fighter program in February 2003, along with Israel, which has already ordered an initial batch of the jets.
As security partners, Singapore and Israel both pledged to contribute about $50 million to the F-35 development effort, according to the globalsecurity.org website.
Originally posted by jude11
Originally posted by Tardacus
the president doesnt have the power to give away any money it`s up to congress to decide how to spend tax payers money, so if asia gets the 6 bil blame YOUR congress person.
When was the last time Obama respected Congress?
He does what he wants and the voters have given him the OK to keep doing it.
Peace
if you don`t like where the government spends it`s money you need to take it up with your congress
Originally posted by expsychogeographer
reply to post by snarky412
The F35 program is going to cost us around 1.45 trillion dollars over the next 50 years. That's for a plane that will probably never see any combat whatsoever.
If you're actually glad to see money go toward the military, I'm not sure what to think. The modern American military is Big Brother's wet dream. The fact that our military's primary goal is the spread of American imperialism should be enough to deter anyone from supporting it.
But you know, I guess what the world really needs is more collateral damage.