Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "" video.

@_DREBBEL_ What’s so special about this climate that it warrants turning off government accountability?
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@_DREBBEL_ Should I draw the inference that the defence budget should be limitless because of ‘national security’?
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@allangibson8494 I'm not surprised.
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@_DREBBEL_ What’s so special about ‘this climate’? See, the trouble with this is that ‘national security’ is an excuse for a total lack of accountability. You can’t have that in a free state. If you accept this then you might as well just hand over all the taxpayers’ money to private entities. What does the taxpayer get out of that? Penury springs to mind. You can’t just write blank cheques and make the excuse that ‘national security’ warrants it, any more than you can cover up things like assassinations or government foul ups on the same grounds.
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What’s so special about ‘this climate’ that warrants turning off government accountability? The idea is incompatible with the concept of a free state. @_DREBBEL_
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@_DREBBEL_ What’s so special about ‘this climate’ that warrants turning off government accountability? The idea is incompatible with the concept of a free state.
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@_DREBBEL_ What’s so special about ‘this climate’ that warrants turning off government accountability? The idea is incompatible with the concept of a free state.
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@_DREBBEL_ What’s so special about ‘this climate’ that warrants turning off government accountability? The idea is incompatible with the concept of a free state.
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@_DREBBEL_ What’s so special about ‘this climate’ that warrants turning off government accountability? The idea is incompatible with the concept of a free state.
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@_DREBBEL_ What’s so special about ‘this climate’ that warrants turning off government accountability? The idea is incompatible with the concept of a free state.
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@_DREBBEL_ What’s so special about ‘this climate’ that warrants turning off government accountability? The idea is incompatible with the concept of a free state.
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@_DREBBEL_ What’s so special about ‘this climate’ that warrants turning off government accountability? The idea is incompatible with the concept of a free state.
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@_DREBBEL_ What’s so special about ‘this climate’ that warrants turning off government accountability? The idea is incompatible with the concept of a free state.
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@_DREBBEL_ YouTube is deleting my replies again. @_DREBBEL_
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@anteshell "Competing for the contract drives the cost down. Two, it encourages innovation." History has shown it has done neither of those things.
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@neshirst-ashuach1881 "Not only does this already exist, the rules are actually stricter for defence projects." Have you seen what parts cost? Have you ever wondered why it takes 10-20 years to develop a new fighter jet? The contract invariably specifies a due date that is never met and a budget that is usually massively blown out. What happens is that everyone blames the government.
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@neshirst-ashuach1881 "It takes 10-20 years to develop a new fighter jet becayse they're enourmously complex systems that very few countries are capable of designing or building." Yes but the time and budget estimates are never even close to being accurate. That was the point. It allows companies like Lockheed-Martin and Boeing to stay on the government tit for decades. "It takes just as long for Russian, Chinese, French, joint european (I'm thinking eurofighter) jet projects as it does does for US." I disagree. The J-20, for example - never had the same delays the F-35 did. Yes; there were problems developing the WS-15 engine but that seems to have been resolved, with it now in LRSP. "Thats just how long such projects take." Then why do companies continue to underquote and get away with it? "Theres nothing uniquely slow about the US." Except that, more than any other country, the US companies have put the government in a hammer lock an keep pushing the prices up. You might remember an inquiry into this a number of years ago that showed that a plastic cap for the end of a chair leg - for use on an AWACS aircraft - cost something like $1,100.
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@allangibson8494 ...who keep cutting back.
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@willn851 Maybe but Defense would be a good place to start, since that seems to be the gold standard for scamming.
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