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China Fitting Out Its First Aircraft Carrier

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ausador6/09/2011 9:38:09 am PDT

Not to worry, those little yellow slant eyed people have congenital issues with depth perception and cannot possibly compete with our pilots!

///Look it is 1939 all over again!

On a more serious note: The fact that we have canceled the F-22 air superiority fighter program in favor of only funding the F-35 “multi-service” jack of all trades and master of none fighter/bomber/harrier/interceptor means that we will loose our superiority in the air over Russian designed and Chinese made fighters in the very near future.

Too bad every plane we try to bring to production takes more than 20 years, has to have the production of parts spread to at least twenty Congressionally important states (and numerous NATO allied suppliers), and only then face serious oversight after tens of billions have already been spent.

The development of weapons systems is now treated by this country as a cash cow to keep thousands of small and large industries alive throughout the United States. Everyone involved in the process knows and acknowledges that tens of billions of dollars are wasted and that the procurement process is purposefully made to stretch on for decades simply to provide more time to suckle at the Federal teat.

Most of these programs never even make it to production, but they have supplied thousands with well paying employment for long enough to draw good retirement benefits and pensions by the time they are canceled.

It is “graft” pure and simple, but no one will say so, because it is graft “paid” (by giving jobs and kickbacks to their cronies) to the congressmen who have to vote on these programs.