Sadly we seem to have these “Over runs” built into the system to “Take care of connected people” on many things. At some point the system can’t sustain itself. When there is too much dead wood a tree is vulnerable in almost any storm.

My dad’s a Navy engineer and the tales he’s told me about contractors...my fav is when they built the boat wrong, for three times as much, and still tried to force the Navy to buy it claiming it could be used for training. An Admiral shut it down by demanding to know how is men could be trained on the wrong kind of…

But then, God forbid, you’d have to regulate some corporations - ewwww...

If that ever happens the military will be in a better place. The way it is right now is just a huge shame. Every though they attack retirement and healthcare or other benefits because they claim they don’t have enough money. It’s there they just don’t want to spend it on people who serve/served.

After the gross incompetence of F-35 production, they’d never get another contract from me for even a damn pencil case.

The problem is not the people themselves, it’s the military contracts which almost universally establish a cost+fixed-profit-margin approach to budgeting. Therefore, since profit margins are generally fixed, contractors can only raise their profits by raising the cost of equipment.

Trim the fat, apply the savings to maintenance and quality. I like that.

The is the heart of a lot of issues with government spending: contracting, across all agencies, is pretty much by design set up to swindle the government so that a relatively small number of contractors, state and local governments, and non-profits can make some extra cash. If people want the government to be more…

There’s a reason why the 10 wealthiest counties in the United States ALL contain defense contractors. It’s the dirty secret Republicans never want to talk about - the federal govt creating massive wealth.

A lot of these issues would be avoided if the relationship between the Department of Defense and Defense Contractors wasn’t so incestuous.

Honda’s V6 engine is very good though. They sound a lot better than the four cylinder engines, in my opinion. They’re very smooth even beyond 100 MPH.

As an owner of 3 Accord Coupes, starting from the 94 Accord Coupe, the 00 Accord Coupe and the 13 Accord Coupe... damn you Honda, first you crap your shit can on making a bad F1 V6 engine, now you scraped the fun engine on my default car?!... What am I going to get now? Aside from Accord, Mustang, Camaro what else is…

wait until he learns that the Germans tore down a Russian-built wall

These shenanigans could probably all have been avoided if Germany didn’t export his grandparents lol

As a person who votes against their own self-interest routinely, this article makes me irrationally angry. The liberal media (any news outlet who uses cogent reasoning to disprove a white American’s misplaced anger) was never this harsh to Obama. You are still upset about Hillary’s loss. Excuse me while I finish…

Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines went to Rome for reasons that are unknown and uninteresting to me.

People who brake on the highway.

My Dad grew up in eastern Kentucky, about 80 miles up Highway 27 from Frozen Head. He ran all through high school, and even got a cross country scholarship to a school in North Carolina. Like most people from rural Kentucky, going to college 200 miles away was about 195 miles too far, so he dropped out, came back,…

Great documentary on Netflix about this race . Don’t know what’s crazier the course/individual feat of finishing or the guy who runs the whole thing . It’s really well done