Australian Government money grab -$15 Billion spending on junk F-35 fighter jets

June 11th, 2014

Awake Goy

This is all just a Government money grab. This is how our Governments and their family contractors, become billionaires with tax payer dollars.
This fraudulent system has been going on for decades. Even John Howard was busted sending millions of tax payer dollars to fake Environmental Companies, that never became front page news.

The true price our Government paid for these fighter jets would be 1/4 of the price that they are telling the people of Australia. The rest of it goes into their offshore bank accounts.

Wake up people of Australia. You are never going to see the original receipt of these planes, and what they really paid for them.

Australian Government $15 Billion spending on junk F-35 fighter jets

Australia’s biggest defense expenditure ever of USD 15 billion to be used for purchasing 72 US F-35 fighter jets has triggered a debate, with some saying that the planes are not worth the high costs, local press reports say.

Australia has committed to purchasing the F-35 combat aircraft from the US, which itself is spending 1 trillion dollars on the biggest defense program in its history.

However, Pentagon’s inspector general has identified 719 specific problems with the aircraft, ranging from minor to mission-critical. Colonel Michael W. Pietrucha, from the United States Air Force, told the Air and Space Power Journal that the F-35 continues to arrive late and cost more than anticipated.

“Budgetary realities should serve as an impetus to reexamine the Air Force’s participation in the F-35 program and the future of the fighter force,” Pietrucha said.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mark Thomson, an analyst at the government-funded Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said that Australia’s choice of fighters from the international market was limited.

“The alternative to the F35, is a previous generation aircraft designed 15 or 20 years before the F35,” he said. “If Australia wants an up-to-date aircraft that would see it through the next two decades, it was the only choice, but yes, it does cost a lot of money.”

Thomson said there were some people critical of the aircraft’s performance but the problems were up to the US to address.