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  17.  @robinstreets1792  The US Medicare and Medicaid programs make US Defense budget squirm with envy, and they're filled with billions of fraud, never audited or discussed much. Meanwhile, defense programs are under constant scrutiny and attacks. Congress uses Medicare and Medicaid as political slush funds to reward campaign donors, with Medicare A being used as a rolling hospital bail-out fund, but then the hospitals line workers are always wondering where the money went. It would be far better to let the private sector with massive defense contracts employ those people in high tech and manufacturing jobs with excellent private benefits, than scrounging for basic care on the dole-out after the money has been pilfered by political opportunists. Then we could have funded F-22A and F-23A simultaneously with obscene production numbers and sustainmemt, on top of thousands of JSF. The defense sector employees could send their kids to private schools or tutor them at home, so as not to be caught up in the socialist prison system of public schooling and counter-productive welfare conditioning. Federally-funded medical programs are wretched disasters, unless you're talking about Federal employees, which then becomes very high-end with Blue Cross/Blue Shield. NHSs in Europe are one of the biggest resource-wasting, tax money black holes ever devised by man. I've lived under several if them in Germany and Finland, with a lot of anecdotal accounts from family in Sweden. If you look at the number of hospitals, clinics, specialists, and dental clinics in even the poorest areas of the US and compare them with major cities in Northern Europe, it's sad to see what Europeans put up with unknowingly. It could be so much better, but socialists think it will create socioeconomic disparity by unleashing people's true potential, so better to just keep everyone muzzled and chained-down with limited take-home income potential and property ownership. My elderly parents are getting decimated financially by the tax codes there.
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  52. It simply outclasses the Harrier in every performance metric imaginable. Most important of all those metrics is safety. The Harrier is an inherently unstable jet during landing and is responsible for the loss of hundreds of lives and airframes over its career. Aside from that, the F-35B has... * Roughly 2x combat radius * Mach 1.6 capable * 5,700-22,000lb payload * Humiliates any 4th Gen fighter in A2A combat using unfair advantages in SA, first-look, first-shoot * Can penetrate the most dense IADS on the planet and conduct deep VLO strike on national command level TGTs * Can execute Destruction of Enemy Air Defense nodes better than 4th Gen fighters who were dedicated to that specific mission * Regularly conducts electronic attack in advance of strike packages by opening perimeter defense radar nets with 5th gen EA techniques * Has anti-ship and ASW capabilities that are rarely discussed, with cooperative multi-spectral surface & sub-surface scanning abilities that are in the early stages of awakening the US and UK maritime 5th gen dominance * Regularly tracks low earth orbit satellites with the AESA, then fuses those tracks with its other sensors, and pipes that live track data to anyone on its data link net * Is able to detect and track ballistic missile launches at 800nm with the early DAS, which is being replaced with an even higher res new gen DAS * Can read aircraft tail number markings in the IR spectrum based on temperature gradients between light and dark paint * Regularly performs Airborne Early Warning & Control for other F-35s, Typhoons, NATO F-16s, Hornets, & F-15s. The leaps in capability from the Harrier to the F-35 are almost like jumping from an F-86 into something Skunk Works would make for Darth Vader.
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