Re:Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster
by waterlesscloud on Thursday March 22, 2012 @02:32PM
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It's important to note that headline-grabbing trillion dollar figure is for a timespan that reaches 40 years from now and covers at least 2500 fighters. It's also worth noting that the JSF is funded by a consortium of nations, including United States, United Kingdom, Italy, The Netherlands, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Norway and Denmark .
Re:Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster
by edge17 on Friday March 23, 2012 @03:41AM
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it's also worth noting that 35 years of the Federal Aid Highway Act that build the US interstate system costed less that half a trillion in modern terms, created jobs, industries, and changed the landscape of the country.
it's also worth noting that 10 or so years of the Apollo program costed < $150b in modern terms, and did a lot of good for science, created jobs, and industries.
A few planes don't do much good. It would be cheaper to take that money and carpetbomb your enemy. ww2 costed ~4 trillion to the US in modern terms. A trillion dollar pricetag on any plane that doesn't travel through time is pretty ridiculous.
The only engineering Lockheed is doing is financial engineering.
People are going to spend more on video games:
http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/07/with-online-sales-growing-...
Look at the luxury goods market. It's huge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_good
If you want to go to Mars, there's plenty of money in the US economy where GDP is about 15 trillion a year.
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