Pentagon boondoggle projects that cost lives and $125+ billion — the author suggests that the C in C eliminate these projects instead of programs to help street-kids when he's looking for additional military funds.
Eliminate the Marine's V-22 Osprey: $26 Billion. Grounded after a series of crashes that killed 30 Marines, the V-22's woes are widely known. Even the Pentagon's head cheerleader for weapons-buying, Acquisitions Chief Edward "Pete" Aldridge, has expressed serious doubts about the V-22 and considered cutting the program, some say. "I personally still have some doubts," he said at a recent briefing. "… There's lots of questions we don't have answers to yet."
(via Robot Wisdom)
