(November 7, 2022 at 3:26 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:I know technically Ukraine's doing the US a favor by getting rid of stuff that's essentially just sitting around in storage eating up the maintenance budget.(November 7, 2022 at 3:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: $18 billion out of a defense budget of nearly $2 trillion is hardly the harbinger of a ‘fiscal black hole’.
Boru
-to make it even more apparent, that 18b wasn't actually the product of a single years production..either. We're dumping stockpile, and, alot of the time, gear we don't really intend to use anymore. We sent them 113s instead of bradleys.......
It's an even smaller amount than it seems like, which is saying something. What it actually amounts to, is 1.8b over a past ten years or so.
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Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM