The U.S. Military Will Spend $1.5 Trillion on a Plane That Barely Works

"And the main effort of military leaders through the past decade, under the Republican leadership of the Bush administration and the Democratic leadership of Obama, has been to get rid of the A-10 so as to free up money for a more expensive, less reliable, technically failing airplane that has little going for it except insider dealing" Only the Holy Military can get away with this nonsense. The Corporate Welfare State run amok.

See: http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/384088/the-pentagons-15-trillion-mistake/ Cross-posted from Facebook via IFTTT