Another 37 Billion $ down the drain.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...in-Secret-Memo

Littoral combat ships, known inside the Navy as little crappy ships, are too lightly armed to be effective on offense and too lightly armored to survive on defense according to information released by Bloomberg based on a secret memo written by the commander of naval surface forces, Vice Admiral Tom Copeman. The $37 billion ship program, developed after 9-11, has been beset with cost overruns and materials engineering problems including cracks and corrosion. The cost of the troubled sea turkeys has doubled to 440 million per ship since 2005. The objective was to develop a fast small ship for near shore action but, as the Navy should have learned from swift boats in Viet Nam, lightly armed boats near shore are easy targets to kill. Navy contractors are developing 2 different designs for the LCS, but both are failing.

A billion here, a billion there. Before long, you're talking about real money.

$37 billion here, $122 billion there.... But, we have to cut programs like welfare which costs only about $1 or 2 billion.

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$37 billion here, $122 billion there.... But, we have to cut programs like welfare which costs only about $1 or 2 billion.

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That's because the people on those programs don't generally vote Republican.

Shit, I spend that daily.

One of the biggest MIC scandals hardly anybody knows about, The Integrated Deepwater System Program (IDS Program or Deepwater).
To their credit the Coasties seem to have realized what a boondoggle it was becoming and may have straightened things out.

Oversight of contractor performance by the government is largely non-existent, due to contract language developed by the contractor...Because of the scale of the building program exceeded anything done by the USCG before, Deepwater is unique in that the primary contractors were tasked with making design and procurement decisions on behalf of the Federal government. This did not achieve its intended result - assets that were designed to meet mission needs.
Then there is the new fighter that can only fly in nice sunny weather if the engine doesn't blow up...
Your aluminium destroyers aren't the best either...

Belknap was severely damaged in a collision with John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1975 in heavy weather off the coast of Sicily. A fire broke out on Belknap following the collision, and during the fire her aluminium superstructure was melted, burned and gutted to the deck level.

Google the scrapped Sea Shadow.
The list is endless..

I'm just glad we're not squandering money on single-payer health care or non-war-related infrastructure. After all, the rest of the planet will gang up and destroy us if we fail to protect the pentagon.

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I'm just glad we're not squandering money on single-payer health care or non-war-related infrastructure. After all, the rest of the planet will gang up and destroy us if we fail to protect the pentagon.

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They will regardless. ;)

And here I was afraid this thread was going to be another funding story; this time to study donkey dicks.

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And here I was afraid this thread was going to be another funding story; this time to study donkey dicks.

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That, or the seizure of Cypriot bank monies.