a proper role for the CIA
commenting on an article about the V-22 Osprey:
GeorgeRobson Apr 14th, 2007 – 01:06:06The tax payer could have saved $50 BILLION plus if somebody had left the plans out for Israel or China to steal.
as a pilot, aviation nut, and adherent to principles of mutual liberty, my objections to the V-22 aren’t strictly tied to the easily joined bandwagon of mocking yet another boondoggle failure. the V-22 made sense conceptually, and in a free market military would have been an obvious prospect. however, that prospect would have been brought to life by private investment and appropriately assigned risk, not the blank check of government “appropriations”. the average gung-ho military dipshit, spouting empty nonsense about “freedom”, doesn’t seem to get or respect the vast power of freedom. even in the borderline soviet model of US milfare procurement, what was keeping a group of investors from funding a fixed-wing helo hybrid and then selling it to the military when it was tested and ready, minor tweaks aside?
if these visionary dipshits clamoring to have my money stolen from me to fund their wet dream aircraft believe their foul premises, then let them invest in these gadgets, suffer the inevitable failures, then sell it to the US military when it’s ready. oh, that’ll result in redundant effort? you think that’s a negative? the rock and driving force of free commerce is appropriately targeted risk, followed by extreme payoffs to the victor(s). american milfare communists want the hardware without using the same system the harware purportedly protects. in other words, they’re assholes.
the V-22 may now be ready for prime time. if so, it was done using unworthy methods which no advocate of freedom can support without a payload of caveats and protests.