Thanks For The F-35

On Thanksgiving Donald Trump touted the capability of the F-35 jet fighter to a holiday gathering of the Coast Guard.

"Amazing job, and amazing job. So amazing that we're ordering hundreds of millions of dollars of new airplanes for the Air Force, especially the F-35. Do you like the F-35? I said how does it do it in fights, and how do they do in fights with the F-35. He says we do very well, you can't see it. Literally you can't see. It's hard to fight a plane you can't see right? But that's an expensive plane you can't see. And as you probably heard we cut the price very substantially, something other administrations would never have done, that I can tell you."

Cheaper?

Better?

I doubt it and the F-35 can't even compete with the old F-16, but its production seems unstoppable.

$1 trillion for a plane that can't provide oxygen to the pilots.

A deal for all involved parties.

ps I can't imagine what use the Coast Guard have for a F-35.

The Cost Of The F-35

Back in 2012 Steven Harper's Conservative government in Canada announced the rise of the national retirement age from 65 to 67.

Several days later the Canadian Defense Ministry confirmed the purchase of thirty-five F-35 Strike Fighters at $50 million per plane.

The Trudeau regime has yet to rescind this order, despite the F-35's unflyablitity and manufacturing overruns.

War is good business for the Pentagon, however this economic supremacy comes with a steep cost to the American public.

Back in 2012 SHARE THE WORLD RESOURCES calculated the cost of each plane as the following;

128,205,128 Meals For Starving People.
57,525 Clean Water Wells.
1,572,327 Adult Cataract Operations. Restoring sight to the blind.
14,285,714 Blankets for refugees. In emergencies, families often leave home with only the clothes they are wearing. Blankets give essential protection from the chilling cold.
5,347,594 Mosquito Nets. Two million people die every year from malaria, most are children under five.
1,573,317 Child Immunisations. Protect a child from the six childhood killer diseases - diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, polio, tetanus and tuberculosis. A gift of life every child must have.
35,666 Houses for family's currently living in cramped, unsanitary and dangerous conditions.
13,510 Schools Furnished with desks, chairs, tables, blackboards - vital things children need to build a foundation for learning.
2,675,227 Children supplied with school books for a whole year.
50,000 Landmines removed from the ground.
193,836 Adult Literary Classes.
151,515 World Response Medicine Boxes. Each containing essential medicines to treat the most common diseases for a community of one thousand people for approximately three months.
5,347,594 Fruit trees planted. Providing a giant boost to the diet and health of a poor family.
4,456,328 Fishing Nets. Give a man, woman or child a fishing net and they - and their families - will have a source of food.
2,057,613 Nanny Goats. Milk, cheese and kids. Families in places like Bangladesh can earn a living by starting a small goat-herding business.
1,783,167 Chickens. Eggs mean protein - vital for every diet. Three chickens can produce enough eggs to feed a whole family. They'll produce baby chicks too.
4,456,328 Training courses for a health worker. Providing a local health worker basic skills on how to treat, prevent and stop the spread of the most common life-threatening diseases.
1,273,885 Childrens School Desk and School Supplies. For children who have no place to sit, study and read this gives one child a desk with pencils, pens and books.
193,836 Wheelchairs. For a disabled child, a wheelchair can be the ticket to freedom and education.
71,523 Vocational Scholarships. One year programme helps young people learn a trade and gives them the vocational and technical training they need to improve their future.
4,456,328 Water Filters. Poor families in places like Cambodia, have no choice but to drink water full of bacteria and parasites. Water filters saves lives by screening out small but deadly bugs.
764,292 Bicycles for a child to get to school every day.
5,000,000,000 Chlorine Tablets to make water safe to drink.

My calculation are more based on happiness.

One F-35 Strike Fighter costs the same as two million 24-ounce Modelo Beers.

Times thirty-five jets and I could buy enough beer to get the adult and teenage population of Canada drunk for two days.

Hawks would disapprove of such a wastrel expenditure of money, but who are the Canadians going to fight.

The USA?

Greenland?

Russia?

So bombs or beer?

I know my choice is easy; beers for all my Canuck friends.

ps to calculate further costs of war please go to the following URL

http://www.stwr.org/special-features/cost-of-war-calculator.html

The Failure Of Flight

The Wright Brothers achieved flight in 1908 and ever since the military has sought to bring death from above.

The Nuiport 23, Sopwith Camel, and Fokker triplane ruled the air over the trenches of the Western Front.

In World II the Messerschmitt Bf and dominated the early going, but the Supermarine Spitfire XVI and the P-47 Thunderbolt broke the Nazis stranglehold of the sky, while the P-47 Thunderbolt gained superiority after the Battle of Midway.

Jets superseded the prop fighters with the USSR and USA seeking an edge in deadly efficiency.

Mig versus Sabre.

F-16 versus Mig 29.

Each was capable of mayhem.

The Pentagon sought a fighter to serve all the services for the next fifty years and promoted the f-35 as the greatest fighter of all time.

$100 billion has been spent on the project.

Two years of free university for every student in the system, but America's real business is war and the Pentagon can't see a future with the F-35

Only one problem.

According to www.scientificamerican.com the F-35 can't beat the F-16.

Its Sleath system isn't 100% and the Dream fight can't compete with its main rival, the Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35S.

But failure has never stop the Pentagon.

The finall bil will be in the trillions.

War.

Eternal.

Endless.

Forever.