{"id":177401,"date":"2019-10-03T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/03\/still-cheaper-than-the-f-35-mistake-jet\/"},"modified":"2019-10-03T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T00:46:00","slug":"still-cheaper-than-the-f-35-mistake-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/03\/still-cheaper-than-the-f-35-mistake-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Cheaper than the F-35 Mistake Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 140%; font-variant: small-caps;\">The Snake-And-Alligator Border Moat: A Budget Analysis<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2019\/10\/snake-and-alligator-border-moat-budget-analysis\/160350\/\">Defense One<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone ran the numbers of Trump&#8217;s suggested border moat with various reptiles, and came up with, &#8220;$2.5 billion in set-up costs, plus annual operating costs of $1.8 billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the F-35 is expected to cost <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II\">US$1.508 trillion through 2070<\/a>, 64 years, or about $23\u00bd billion a year. <\/p>\n<p>Personally, I want Sharks with frikken lasers, or at least some ill-tempered mutated sea bass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snake-And-Alligator Border Moat: A Budget Analysis \u2014Defense One Someone ran the numbers of Trump&#8217;s suggested border moat with various reptiles, and came up with, &#8220;$2.5 billion in set-up costs, plus annual operating costs of $1.8 billion.&#8221; By comparison, the F-35 is expected to cost US$1.508 trillion through 2070, 64 years, or about $23\u00bd billion &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[446,381,573,438,609],"class_list":["post-177401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-budget","tag-defense-procurement","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}