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Aborted at three and a half, the $2.2 billion C-27J

Posted on February 14, 2012 @ 6:52 am by David Esrati

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If you wonder how our military budget is the largest in the world, it’s because politicians get involved protecting their babies. In the world of military programs all politicians are decidedly pro-life if they have a piece of it in their state. The C-27 is an attempt at a smaller version of the venerable C-130 Read More

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AA status for a third world country

Posted on August 9, 2011 @ 8:10 am by David Esrati

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Standard & Poor’s is extracting an ounce of payback on the United States after they were ridiculed and had their wrists slapped for rating Lehman Brothers an A, a month before bankruptcy. The problems- as with most of our problems in the United States- comes back to the fact that we’ve been forced to employ Read More