The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, the Pentagon’s most ambitious weapons program ever, has been plagued with mounting costs and delays that will result in a price tag of more than $2 trillion in the coming decades, according to a recent watchdog report by the Government Accountability Office.
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    5 months ago

    The World Food program has estimated that it would cost about $40 billion per year to end world hunger. The entire world could eat, even with all of its other problems, for 25 years. Instead, the US spends it on military graft.