Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

SomeHacker44•14 minutes ago

I saw this movie. Schindler's List, was it? History really does repeat itself.

exabrial•about 2 hours ago

This is how it all works though. A recent example: California is implementing a plan to bulk buy heat pumps. All of it is designed to transfer taxpayer money to some 1%'ers pocket.

mikestew•43 minutes ago

That is a massive misrepresentation, and arguably intentionally deceptive to support a narrative. One can read the blueprint for themselves and come to your own conclusions.

https://heatpumppartnership.org/blueprint

elias_t•about 2 hours ago

I heard about this but could you elaborate? From the outside it seems like a nice idea to cut costs

pinkytoes•about 2 hours ago

He is simply incorrect.

A non-profit teamed up with a heat-pump installation marketplace (VoltHub) and a heat-pump contractor to put together a group buy. No money comes from the government. It's just some folks teaming up to help buyers get leverage on manufacturers, and save 10-20%.

The beneficiaries are installers, technicians, homeowners, and anybody who likes more efficient hvac.

It's actually a pretty solid example of what people who don't want the government involved _should_ support.

ratelimitsteve•about 3 hours ago

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/general-dynamics/totals?id=...

For those about to ask the obvious question, the company that built the plant that charged half a billion dollars in exchange for not much of anything at all donates between $3 and $5 million per year, more or less evenly split across parties but slightly favoring republicans.

DANmode•about 3 hours ago

Made at least one Congressperson or similar happy, can bet that.

vfclists•about 2 hours ago

War is a racket. Under the Trump administration it is an even bigger racket.

"Repkon said other countries were using the machines to produce the older model. But the Army and General Dynamics could not inspect those active production lines, Repkon told them, citing customer privacy."

Can you believe this? Both the US Army and General Dynamics paying 100s of millions to a subcontractor whose production lines they are not allowed to inspect "citing customer privacy"?

Even your supermarket chain is able to inspect their subcontractors production lines producing their in house brands and the US Army can't?

I guess the "kon" in Repkon says it all, ie their "Rep"utation is a "Kon".

America's military is doomed.

Heard the news about sailors on the Abraham Lincoln rioting with 7 dead because of the shithole conditions on the carrier?

ElProlactin•about 2 hours ago

It's a good thing that the US isn't involved in any wars or anything like that. Otherwise Americans might start asking why they've been spending $500+ billion/year on defense and are running low on munitions, can't achieve strategic victories against supposedly weak enemies, etc. /s

kwertyoowiyop•about 1 hour ago

If only it was as low as $500 billion. It’s at least twice that.

ElProlactin•about 1 hour ago

Yeah it's ~$1 trillion now. I should have qualified: $500+ billion/year for the past ~20 years.

Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

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