re: #335 pingjockey

Talk to congress! They spend the money. The Marines did not want the V-22 Osprey, the tilt wing rotor craft. However, congress said you’ll take it and like it.

Yes, but now that they’ve got it they love it. It’s much faster than the UH-60, and it can fly higher and farther. I understand what Secretary Gates is saying, but we do need weapons to fight big wars too. We need to change how we procure defense items, so that these cost overruns are reduced (they cannot be eliminated entirely). We also need to look into ways to reduce non-defense spending, because National Defense is the Federal Government’s most important job.