The Black Hole That Ate Everything

[unhappycamper]

5. I'll disagree with you on this

That big chunk o blue pie is (supposedly) all military spending.

Some perspective:

WW II Iowa-class battleships cost $100 million a pop.
A 2014 Zumwalt class destroyer costs over $5.6 billion a pop.

The Marshall Plan created after WW II cost $ 100 billion dollars.
The F-35 program was supposed to cost around $400 billion and produce over 2,400 aircraft. F-35Cs are now over $300 million a pop and climbing.

The USS Enterprise launched in 1960 cost $459+ million dollars.
Our newest Ford-class aircraft carrier will cost somewhere between $16 ~ $40 billion dollars.

I'd like to chop the military budget by 30/40%.