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The Department of Defense is a money pit masquerading as a department of the federal government. We should be cutting off additional funding to the F-35 program at a minimum, and Lockheed Martin's support of Republicans who aid and abet treason should be underscored.

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keep on them!

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Matt Stoller over on Big takes a look at the F-35. "A Real S*** Show": Soldiers Angrily Speak Out about Being Blocked from Repairing Equipment by Contractors: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-real-s-show-soldiers-angrily-speak

So does POGO (Project On Government Oversight): https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2019/06/the-f-35-and-the-captured-state/

Much of that is a result of modifications of the Federal Acquisition Regulations by the Gingrich Congress that took power from the contract monitors. Lockheed Martin continues their donations so nobody looks too closely at undoing those changes.

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one should expect that a warmonger would support fascism

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How can Lockheed Martin stay in business without a good ole fashioned WAR?

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Of course they are...the defense contractors have always been the worst offenders.

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LM has many lucrative Federal contracts. I'm sure it's to do with them. For example, they worked on the JSF... 'Nuff said.

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