joint strike or excuse me joint strike force problem has cost the american taxpayers three hundred eighty two billion dollars and rising and with all the f. twenty two is an f. thirty five is grounded that means that the u.s. air force currently has zero stealth fighters in the air after spending hundreds of billions dollars on that so that twenty two has been ground over a possible faulty oxygen system after they found anti-freeze and oil in the blood of pilots which apparently caused the pilots to act drunk while flying the jet that's just what you want right a drunk pilot in a plane that's vast and carrying weapons and the f. thirty five is parked because of a valve problem so with all the problems surrounding these jets you would think the pentagon would think twice before ordering any more of them but you would be wrong no see the pentagon is simply enslaved to the military death row complex here in the us on the department. fence website there's a press release that reads lockheed martin court lockheed martin aeronautical company fort worth texas is being awarded a five hundr

joint strike fighters. and the size of ground forces.f all, let's go through the retirees payments, that's not fair. >> of course, that's a deal that will be broken if you make a deal so people will get a certain amount of money they should be grandfathered. in an era where there's not enough money, at the end of the day that's not what they're going to do. they're going to cut the payments. >> what about the joint strike fighter? >> f-35 it's taken too long and it's overbudget. there's been lots of talk about cutting it. i think it's going to get cut anyway. >> we've seen in the past any time the pentagon says we don't need the money for these particular planes we see congress people up in arms because those planes are made in their districts. >> you're going to see that in this case and the case of other contracted olgss. remember this, we constantly fight the war last year. we have to think about the threats in the future. we're not going to be fighting the taliban forever. the f-35 is for fighting in the future. but you've got to mak

but the joint strike fighter program that commissioned the jets to service the air force, marines and has been plagued by years of design flaws and massive cost overruns. the total cost for this fighter program is something like $300 billion and counting. robert bates has called the new designs for the second engine extravagant and unnecessary. that could be said for large swaths of the defense budget, extravagant and unnecessary. budget tear measures aside, this is a time for foreign policy. for two long congress has fatd ended the defense department; while starving foreign policy agencies. robert bates himself once pointed out there are more members of military marching bands than servicemen in the foreign service. the result is a warped american foreign policy. it conceives of problems entirely in military terms, tries to present a military solution. as he came to the close of his presidency, dwight eisenhower said every dollar uselessly spent on military mechanisms decreases our total strength and, therefore, our security. it's time for a more balanced national security strategy.

status but until all of the glitches are worked out the air force says the planes aren't moving it's not exactly the finest moment for the joint strike fighter program the f. thirty five is the designed to be second only to the f. twenty two as of now both of those jets are facing serious problems there not even the lying oh let's not forget these two jets are considered the future of our air force and of course the pentagon has already dropped hundreds of millions of dollars on the production for the f. to the twenty two's and the thirty five and yes the f. thirty five are quite the investment at ninety million dollars apiece and the g.o.p. wants to buy twenty four hundred more of them for a total price of three hundred eighty two billion dollars but then wait a minute when you add in maintenance figures the total estimated cost of the f. thirty five comes to one trillion dollars and yes it would seem trillion there you have it folks the most expensive military project in history and it doesn't even work it's just the latest disgusting example of wasteful defense spending. so we keep hearing from media personalities pundits experts