re: #72 Decatur Deb

Not to mention the R&D cost of innovation. The Manhattan Project ate a tangible part of our GDP. Now any shitthole nation can take a stab at Fat Man. (Looking at you, Norks.)

For this reason, I tend to be more accommodating of cash spent on crazy pie-in-the-sky programs like F-35, compared to cash spent blowing up and then rebuilding and then blowing up some damned bridge on the other side of the world.