Pentagon: Price of big-ticket weapons programs grew $64 billion in 2010

[ProudDad]

The Pentagon says the total expected costs of its highest-profile weapons programs grew by $64 billion last year, an increase that largely stems from buying more equipment.

The Defense Department has sent Congress data covering a one-year period ending last December, which shows 95 programs experienced $63.9 billion, or 4 percent, in price-tag growth.

Defense officials released the cost-growth data late Friday — just as lawmakers were leaving town for a two-week recess. The data drop came days after Congress passed a 2011 defense spending measure that is $18 billion smaller than the Obama administration’s $549 billion request.

SMALLER!?!?!?!?!

My Response to The Hill's website:

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I have a great idea. We've got all those damn nukes sitting in silos, being "modernized" and made "safe", right?

How 'bout we make a deal with the world.

"Ok, World. We're going to STOP spending on all new 'weapons systems' and we're going to phase out all of our old ones. We're going to halt arms manufacturing except for a minimum for actual defense of the physical territory of the United States.

"Then we're going to take the trillion dollar savings per year and create a paradise on Earth here in the United States."

"We are going to beef up our intelligence gathering capabilities to the point where when you squat we're going to hear the t*rd hit the water in the toilet before you do."

"And if we get wind of ANYTHING, any increase in arms manufacturing, any weapons systems creation in ANY COUNTRY ON EARTH, we're going the nuke the SH*T out of any installation doing that work...NO MATTER WHERE IT IS!"

“And you should know by now that we're bat-crap crazy enough to do it."

[indepat]

1. So, let's cut social security and Medicare as much as necessary to feed the MIC weapons' programs:

so what if people needlessly die like flies at home, for such is but a small price to pay for the magnificent kill ratios that can racked up against third world peoples. :patriot:

Edited to separate two words