Taking drastic action should have been seen by policy-makers as imminent (and was likely seen as such in behind closed door sessions) at the latest by around 2007-2008. That of course was when the US and a greater part of the western-world was heading into an expected financial crisis and when we soon to be facing known austere fiscal/budget issues and taking the necessary restructuring steps as a result, accordingly, over the course of the 2010-2020 decade.
Critics (private observers, analysts and govt accounting and assessment-making agencies) have at least been warning of such unsustainable and uncertain affordability risks of the F-35 Program as part of this looming reality.
The problem very tragically, is that evidently still today the presumably career-minded Policy-maker powers that be are playing a totally reckless and potentially catastrophic game of chicken with 'staying-the-F-35-Program course' -- apparently not wanting to be the first to upset the game and officially advocate for alternative Plan B recapitalization options as a contingency. That would very likely be an instant career-ender.
It's far easier to wait and cross-fingers for a more publicly obvious show-stopper to pop-up, finally...a good God, what took so long type...such as being able to blame it on this dang sequestration thing, shrug shoulders, say 'we gave it a good college try' and...'it would have been a helluva a fighter aircraft and a sure game-changer unlike anything else ever designed if allowed to mature without restraints'...and then step up and claim; "it's now time to start looking at less costly remedies and options to face our recapitalization issues", etc.
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Taking drastic action should have been seen by policy-makers as imminent (and was likely seen as such in behind closed door sessions) at the latest by around 2007-2008. That of course was when the US and a greater part of the western-world was heading into an expected financial crisis and when we soon to be facing known austere fiscal/budget issues and taking the necessary restructuring steps as a result, accordingly, over the course of the 2010-2020 decade.
Critics (private observers, analysts and govt accounting and assessment-making agencies) have at least been warning of such unsustainable and uncertain affordability risks of the F-35 Program as part of this looming reality.
The problem very tragically, is that evidently still today the presumably career-minded Policy-maker powers that be are playing a totally reckless and potentially catastrophic game of chicken with 'staying-the-F-35-Program course' -- apparently not wanting to be the first to upset the game and officially advocate for alternative Plan B recapitalization options as a contingency. That would very likely be an instant career-ender.
It's far easier to wait and cross-fingers for a more publicly obvious show-stopper to pop-up, finally...a good God, what took so long type...such as being able to blame it on this dang sequestration thing, shrug shoulders, say 'we gave it a good college try' and...'it would have been a helluva a fighter aircraft and a sure game-changer unlike anything else ever designed if allowed to mature without restraints'...and then step up and claim; "it's now time to start looking at less costly remedies and options to face our recapitalization issues", etc.
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