Tonight I watched “The Pentagon Wars“, a movie from 1998 about the development of the Army’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle. During a scene where a general is being grilled about oddities during testing for the vehicle, he finally gives them the cost so far to develop it. He says “14″, one of the senators replies, “million?” The general doesn’t say anything, and the another senator says “billion?” incredulously.
Wouldn’t it be nice if $14 billion was still a lot of money to our government, not a pittance to be thrown at every little whim?
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