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In reply to the discussion: That fucking blimp cost 1.4b dollars. [View all]itsrobert
(14,157 posts)66. 1.4b could have built the Raiders a nice new stadium in Downtown Oakland
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I'm not even sure Americans are allowed to know how much money Raytheon sucks from the life blood of
Monk06
Oct 2015
#4
"You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has
underahedgerow
Oct 2015
#59
Do you really think the people of this country want to cut, say, Social Security to
Marr
Nov 2015
#105
Yeah, and got a hell of a lot more return than we did for this wayward blimp, too.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2015
#57
And ironically, that sentence, said with much conviction, doesn't really mean anything.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2015
#65
Blimps, hammers, toilet seats.. ad infinitum. What is a billion dollars here or there?
Paper Roses
Oct 2015
#20
1982 - I remember it well for some odd reason despite thinking it happened in the seventies
Brother Buzz
Oct 2015
#49
"...there are only two of these blimps in..." < One.One of these blimps in the world...
jtuck004
Oct 2015
#50
Um uh, you're so right. When we get into the mass production of fucking blimps
Warren Stupidity
Nov 2015
#76
Actually it did. The program is kaput. Total output two fucking blimps.
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2015
#64
what the fuck! I could have made them one for just a cool billion or so.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2015
#56
well, we probably need it more than a new hospital for vets said absolutely no one.
librechik
Oct 2015
#60
They have more of those billion dollar ballons too, all authorised by our Pentagon big spenders.
Sunlei
Oct 2015
#62
So 1.4b price tag is perfectly justifiable for more damned useless war shit?!!!!
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#86
Oh good, just promote more war shit for violent minded war mongers.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#96
Preemptive War and Broadsweep National Security are neither rational, reasonable nor ethical,
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#98
It would be an opinion if it were not for the FACT war and its ugly tentacles are destroying the earth.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#100
It's going to take a radical shift in the violent minds and hardened hearts of the oligarchy.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#103