The money for those planes wasn’t exactly fed into a woodchipper. Besides the creation of jobs requiring high stem skills,and producing a product that can be used for national defense, that money supported a whole economic ecosystem around the employees of the aerospace manufacturer. However, if you’re against the military industrial complex, you still want government welfare, just for your chosen group.
David L (#)
8 years ago
That is not even a drop in the bucket of the nation’s annual health care spending. We spent over three trillion in 2014.
Those 22 black birds can run about 2 hours of US health care cost in 2014.
Bicoid (#3936)
8 years ago
Call me crazy, but I don’t think comparing the price of a fighter largely built introduced in ’83 (and retired in ’08) to 2015 healthcare prices is the right way to do math.
The money for those planes wasn’t exactly fed into a woodchipper. Besides the creation of jobs requiring high stem skills,and producing a product that can be used for national defense, that money supported a whole economic ecosystem around the employees of the aerospace manufacturer. However, if you’re against the military industrial complex, you still want government welfare, just for your chosen group.
That is not even a drop in the bucket of the nation’s annual health care spending. We spent over three trillion in 2014.
Those are hard to count in this picture
Those 22 black birds can run about 2 hours of US health care cost in 2014.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think comparing the price of a fighter largely built introduced in ’83 (and retired in ’08) to 2015 healthcare prices is the right way to do math.