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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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