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   dtriedel said, 4 months ago

   Every expert says that the F-22 is a waste of money.

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   petergrt said, 4 months ago

   The F-22 should blow up the 0bama-care monster, and the resultant explosion would kill both, the F22 and the Cap & Tax hoax.

   I actually like the F-22, the photo of which I have taken and use it as my ‘calling card’, but it is outdated and way too expensive to maintain.

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   HUMPHRIES said, 4 months ago

   dtriedel, Sec Def Gates has also joined the experts. An outmoded project maintained to procure Republican votes.

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   dmarkowski said, 4 months ago

   This is to simply to answer the question proposed by the editorial cartoon:

   First, let’s get the figures more accurately displayed. The F-22 cost is NOT $350 million it was $1.75 billion for one year alone. The Cap and Trade is $1 trillion in REVENUE in the next decade so an average of $100 billion a year. And the Health care is at a cost of $1 to 1.5 trillion over the next decade which is averaging $100 to 150 billion a year in upfront cost.

   Analysis:

   The F-22 raptors as cool as they look, and I see them all the time as I am close to Langley, they are not being used for the current wars. The dollars saved can go towards more advanced weaponry and hopefully safety equipment from IDE which is the current threat.

   The cap and trade is a tax. Yes it sucks that it would be a tax, but it is a revenue for the government. Something needs to happen to help the environment and nothing persuades more than the pocket!

   The Government Health Care will cost so much because the presidents before Obama for 40 years have all said the same thing … “Something should be done” and nothing got passed. Our system is in great need of an overhaul and reform. I wouldn’t imagine any citizen not agreeing with that. Well, in order to do something, it will cost money. Go figure! And since it is a problem that is late in being fixed, it will cost exponentially more than if we fixed the issues before they became a major problem.

   Solution:

   Since the latter two are issues that have been pecked at and walked around for more than or near 4 decades with no resolve, I am personally grateful that we have someone actually pushing something that may actually get passed and bring change. The former, is a cold war era weapon that is obsolete by a number of experts. I would eliminate the F-22 program.

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   dtroutma said, 4 months ago

   The big yellow 1st Cav patch is described as “the horse we never rode, the line we never crossed, and the reason we never crossed it.” The F-22 DOES cost close to $350 mill a copy, has failed its tests repeatedly, and falls apart, then there’s the fact it has no line to cross, because the “war” it was created for is long gone. The blimp cost is for TEN YEARS, not one, as constantly implied by opponents. Defense spending is MUCH closer to that amount annually, and mostly for “toys for the boys”, not troops or real defense.

   The main reason the F-22 was supported was that 44 states had sub-contractors to the project, and it was a Congressperson’s dream, even if a distemper ridden dog.

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   believecommonsense said, 4 months ago

   Ramriez, my answer to your question in the toon is:

   the F-22 and your contract ;-D

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   David said, 4 months ago

   Despite the fact that the F-22 is obsolete I would cancel cap and tax and Obamacare first thing. An obsolete device is still better than one that’s a bomb.

   Second, the F-22 is the cheapest waste of money among the three.

   Third, the F-22 will not stifle our economy by increasing costs on every business in the United States and it will also not expand in cost exponentially from its initial price tag like Medicare has and Obamacare will if passed.

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   junebugmom said, 4 months ago

   I’m looking for “D–All of the above”.

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   nomad2112 said, 4 months ago

   I with junebugmom.

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    believecommonsense said, 4 months ago

    wow, nomad, I’m surprised … did you read the caption at bottom of toon? you want to cancel none of the above?

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    nomad2112 said, 4 months ago

    Clarifying … D - cancel all of the above. At this time I’d settle for dumping Cap & Trade.

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    GNWachs said, 4 months ago

    Easiest vote all year. Cancel all three. Plus several more.

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    Graham Freeman said, 4 months ago

    I have to pick one? OK, the one that provides least benefit. That would be the F-22

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    cdward said, 4 months ago

    Let’s see. The F-22 is $361 Billion per plane. If we had, say, 10 of these things, that would be how much?

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    texarc said, 4 months ago

    what dmarkowski said. Yah! oh, and believecommonsense as well. Ramirez won two pulitzers? how in the world?

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    GNWachs said, 4 months ago

    edward:” Let’s see. The F-22 is $361 Billion per plane. If we had, say, 10 of these things, that would be how much?”

    We have reached the point in our expenditures where to the average public they see no difference between a billion and a million. No wonder they don’t gag when Obama proposes an expense of $1Trillion+.

    edward the planes are $361 million each. Even at that cheap price we don’t need them.

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    parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

    he’s not very fair and balanced but he sure can draw

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    Jude McKay said, 4 months ago

    Well, let’s see. Which program is best for humans? Health care reform, not known as “obamacare” as far as I’m concerned. F-22s? Experts say wasteful and I say, criminal, to spend $300 million on a plane when the medical needs of human veterans of wars are not being met.
    Cap and Trade? an imperfect solution, but let’s do something so we can breathe and survive.

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    GNWachs said, 4 months ago

    Once again the classic difference between an intellectual liberal and an intellectual conservative.

    Liberal- Problem? Health, environment etc? Lets try absolutely anything and see if it makes it better. It is bad now so worth the try. and if it doesn’t make it better we can start all over again.

    Conservative- Problem? health, environment etc? What do you propose? what evidence do you have it will make things better? No evidence? Then lets just wait until we can actually make an improvement.

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    HUMPHRIES said, 4 months ago

    “conservative inrtellect”, would like to see one of those.

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    GNWachs said, 4 months ago

    It all began with Edmund Burke, followed by Russell Kirk and then Barry Goldwater and William F Buckley. I happen not to be a conservative so I don’t always agree with them but they are certainly intellectual. I disagree with Bork on just about everything but he has a great intellect. After you finish reading these people let me know and I will supply more names.

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    petergrt said, 4 months ago

    Humphries: You are way too intelligent to recognize an intellect, and especially the rarest of them all, a “conservative inrtellect”.