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Volume 162 · Issue 62 | 99¢

‘Batch’ of F-35s

By Letters to the Editor
From page A5 | 3 Comments

EDITOR:

I was confused as to why a reader was writing about the purchase of a “batch” of F-35s. The letter was a morass of minutia regarding a recent report in the media on this purchase. As I waded through the stultifying data, it appeared that the writer was trying to make the point that the Pentagon was wasting money on the F-35 project. I was quite surprised when the last paragraph revealed the actual point of the letter and it was to take a swipe at Congressman McClintock. The writer wanted us to believe that Congressman McClintock wanted to cut budgets for schools, seniors and medical research and “dump” the savings into the Pentagon budget to fund projects like the F-35. It was all very unconvincing.

ANTHONY J. ARJIL
Placerville

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James E.January 02, 2013 - 3:37 pm
Mr. Arjil, you say unconvincing, but is it true? Would Representative McClintock vote for schools, seniors and medical research or pentagon funding? I'm going to guess pentagon funding.
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JohnJanuary 02, 2013 - 8:05 pm
Mr. Arjil confuses 'minutiae' with 'facts'--to wit: we are buying airplanes that cost upward of $250 million a pop and they can't fly because of their propensity to kill the pilots. Mr. Arjil, did you ever wonder why the USAF does not use F-35s in Iraq or Afghanistan? The plane is too expensive to put in harm's way of a cheap shoulder-fired missile--provided it does not crash first. And another fact: McClintock never saw a weapons system he did not like--no matter how wasteful.
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M. SchumannJanuary 11, 2013 - 12:30 pm
All that was said about President Ragan’s star war program was pushed under the table when we went to war, if he hadn’t been determined to have the best equipped military we would of lost many more soldiers than we did. Now that China is producing weapons we need to have weaponry that removes doubt from engagement. The F-35 is when perfected will be head and shoulders above our adversaries; this is a must if you want our nation to remain number one in the world.
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