At $6.1 Billion, the President should walk instead

[dorbie 0]

This is just insane.

23 helicopters at a cost of $6.1 Billion. They should drive the guy or dig a fucking tunnel to the airport and give the guy a golf cart.

This is truly obscene.

http://www.livescience.com/technology/060507_marine_one.html

Is it time to just disband the federal government & spend their pension plans towards paying down the national debt?

[dorbie 0]

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/vxx.htm

[Mike111 0]

he must have good taste

[quade 4]

What is insane is not that the President of the U.S. needs an expensive ride, what is insane is that it's $6.1B going to a non-US company.

Whatever happened to buying American first?

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[jakee 1,610]

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What is insane is not that the President of the U.S. needs an expensive ride, what is insane is that it's $6.1B going to a non-US company.

Whatever happened to buying American first?

Does 'buying American' trump supplying the military with the best possible equipment?

Besides part of the deal was Lockheed-Martin getting the contract to do a large part of the manufacturing work - so a fair chunk of that cash is staying stateside.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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Does 'buying American' trump supplying the military with the best possible equipment?

The word "best" is subjective.

The government put out a bid spec, both companies met the spec, the government picked the foriegn built aircraft. The government will often choose different comapnies to do different things to keep technology, industry and jobs in this country healthy.

In this case, they did not do so.

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[DrewEckhardt 0]

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This is just insane.

23 helicopters at a cost of $6.1 Billion. They should drive the guy or dig a fucking tunnel to the airport and give the guy a golf cart.

This is truly obscene.

I think you meant irrelevant. When you're spending 2600 billion a year, 6.1B on presidential helicopters is the sort of fraction I'd spend of my income to take my wife out for a nice dinner.

2600B a year is truly obscene.