Taxpayers Cough Up For More F-35s the Pentagon Didn’t Ask For - theamericanconservative.com/articles/taxpa…
At a tick below $62,000, U.S. median household income is high and rising steadily. Yet this handsome sum is only enough to keep one F-35 stealth fighter in the air for about an hour and a half.
This (taxpayer) dollar-guzzling hunk of metal has attracted the ire of fiscal hawks for two decades, yet no one in government—and especially nobody at the Department of Defense—seems keen on shelving it.
An analysis of the fiscal year 2019 Defense Appropriations Bill by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance uncovered that members of Congress had snuck in $740 million for eight additional F-35s. These are planes the Pentagon didn’t request.
It’s hard to have congressional accountability when it’s Congress that’s enabling excessive and wasteful Pentagon spending. At the very least, these practices must end immediately via a stronger ban on earmarking than what’s already on the books.
Lawmakers must also demand more accountability from DOD and make funding levels contingent on it kiboshing boondoggles such as the F-35. The country simply can’t afford a profligate Pentagon that spends way beyond its means to deliver a piece of equipment that’s deeply flawed.
After a two-month investigation, House Democrats announced Tuesday that they have drafted articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on broad charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Obstruction of Congress??? Democrats are an obstruction in the bowels of government. Finding a co-operative, bi-partisan Democrat is like looking for a Tootsie Roll in a septic tank.
Abuse of power? Is there even such a crime in our criminal code? The Constitution says a President may be impeached for treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors. It does not say Congress may turn any Presidential action they don't like into an impeachable crime.
