#5) $479 MILLION FOR WARPLANES THAT THE PENTAGON DIDNT ASK FOR Congressional appropriators ordered four more F-35 joint strike fighters at a cost of $479 million dollars, even though the Pentagon didnt ask for them. The F-35 program has a long, sordid history of running behind schedule and over budget, and is on track to cost American taxpayers more than $400 billion dollars. Despite the crazy amount of money weve poured into the F-35 project, it continues to run into minor technical snags like the inability to turn, climb, or run. None of this has stopped Congress from continuing to fork over funding though. In what were sure is a completely unrelated coincidence, Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor receiving billions of taxpayer dollars to build the F-35, spent more than $28 million on political contributions and lobbying in the last election cycle alone.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:40:44 +0000
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