Near the end of February of this year the Pentagon announced that they were "grounding: the new jet fighter fleet-the F-35-due to a "cracked engine blade". That's 51 planes. I can picture the scene in the war room. One general turns to another and says, "do you know what this means?". "It means the fucking thing doesn't work", as Christopher Lloyd said in the movie Back to the Future. This "is the Pentagon's most expensive weapons program at a cost of nearly $ 400 billion". I wonder what we could have gotten with $ 400 billion? Maybe some classrooms and teachers for them, or hospitals in inner cities, or road construction and bridge repair, maybe more police or more libraries. No. Instead we got zilch, nada, bupkis, squat, zero. But you can bet some CEO's walked away with millions in bonus money or stock options.
(Source: "Pentagon Grounds Fighters: in The Record on 2/23/13)
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