Clearly fake, there's no raptor anywhere.
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I would be curious how much these missiles are marked up.
It can't actually cost like $14.9 million in materials and production costs and then $100k profit for the company can it?
I wonder if it's like $5million production cost and then $10million profit
I'm pretty sure these are one of those "it costs $1 million to manufacture and then 14 million to guarantee they work and everything is documented." things.
Is warhead the cheapest part? Should it be made of gold or diamonds maybe?
Money for schools
Oh, that money is definitely going to schools.
It's getting there fast and making a large impact.
Schools, Research Centers, Cancer Drug Manufacturing, Orphanages ...
It's a turbojet engine tho
Well, it’s full of toxic fuels.
The money is actually going to defense contractors, an obscene percentage of which goes to like one guy who probably hunts poor people for fun on the weekends.
The money is actually going to
It's not about who receives the money, it's about where that money would have went if it wasn't put in the missile.
With respect, it's also about who receives the money.
RTX makes the Tomahawk.
In 2016, the stock was at 59. Now it's at almost 200. A return of 338%. That's about the same rate of return as the S&P 500 in the same timeframe. The difference being, the worst performing stocks in the S&P are regularly swapped out.
So, yeah, these guys are pretty much a sure bet to make money.
When you're a billionaire, pretty much everyone else is a poor people... and, as an added bonus, you get to use Tomahawk missiles to hunt them.
Funding at the federal level is never an either/or choice, it’s an active, explicit declaration of what the administration wants.
Perpetuating this specious framing provides cover for malignant sociopaths.
The money for children's cancer research goes into ballrooms.

It's a myth that the US could fund it's healthcare if it didn't fund the military. This is because we already spend more on healthcare than the military already. By a lot.
Medicare alone has a similar budget to the entire Pentagon!

We're not too cheep for healthcare, we're getting ripped off!
We spend more on health care per person and have worse outcomes than any country in the global north.
That has a lot to do with privatizing all our medical facilities and wasting a ton of money through private insurance.
We spend more on healthcare than the government spends on the military, the government does not.
Kills people.
The rocket is the real tyrant.
Where's the CUM tank?
RAM