If I was American I wouldn't care so much about the stock pile but about the amount that was and is still being used everyday. 3.5M$ x 850 is a lot of wasted money when diplomacy is much less expensive.
Seeing the NASA ask for a permanent moon base at $20B while the pentagon is looking for $200B really puts it into perspective. You’re telling me it’s going to cost 10x as much to wage war on Iran as it is to build a moon base? Wtf are we doing.
Oh yes absolutely it will cost more than $20B. But that’s an order of magnitude difference. If NASA has price overruns by 9x it’s still cheaper. That’s why it’s so stark.
NASA didn't go to moon for the love of science and because it was cool. They went there because Sputnik was an ICBM with a radio for a payload instead of a warhead.
By declaring thousands of truck engines and wheels "unfixable" repeatedly and ordering more while giving the scrap so terrorists can buy the waste cheap to make weapons and bombs to keep an illegal war going. Or by buying a diesel-fueled power plant that's too expensive to operate. Also, buying and losing expensive parts and declaring them "unserviceable". It just has to be done at very large scale.
PS: THAAD missiles are $12M each and GMD missiles are $75M each make for much simpler burning money rather than using it for food, housing, medications, or healthcare.
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