Pentagon considers scrapping costly F-35 jet program

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4. And I want to thank you ...

... for making me aware sometime back of the contracts notification emails.

Most folks see the billions and billions of dollars the military spends as kind of an abstract number, they don't see the substance behind those amazingly large figures.

But when you see everyday just where all that money is going, well, it is an eye-opener.

It is tens and hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts awarded every single day, five days a week.
Actually, I think I saw somewhere on DU (maybe you posted it) that the Pentagon has something like $3 billion available to spend everyday.

The downside of this knowledge, however, is that it also makes one realize that the money and power is spread around so broadly that it is highly doubtful that we will ever see the political will to stop this gravy train --- at least under the present political and governmental system in this nation.