http://www.theblaze.com/stories/calif-diver-vows-to-find-photograph-bin-ladens-body/
Washington intends to buy 2,443 of these highly advanced fighting systems, at a price tag of $382 billion.
The Government Accountability Office estimates that an additional $650 billion will be needed to operate and maintain the aircraft.
Thus, the total cost reaches a staggering $1 trillion, the most expensive defense program in history.
We’re spending more on this plane than Australia’s entire GDP ($924 billion).
Read about it here: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/the-f-35-a-weapon-that-costs-more-than-australia/72454/
Thanks to Kedmobee for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.
The top-secret world the U.S. government has created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
Read about it here, from The Washington Post: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/
Thanks to ‘Da Brayn’ for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.
Read about it here in this article from Rolling Stone:
Thanks to Kedmobee for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting Community.
It’s hard to imagine two congresspeople at more opposite ends of the spectrum than Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul.
Now, they have both formally stated that Obama’s executive decision illegally violated our Constitution.
O’Reilly’s interview with Dennis Kucinich is interesting in and of itself – O’Reilly standing up in strong support of Obama, and Kucinich taking the opposite stance.
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