The fixation on despicable, :dev2: evil :diablo: “profit” is both hilarious and distrubingly sad.
Hilarious because some have no idea what it is or how it is derived, and sad because their lack of understanding apprears to be the result of long-term programming using propaganda.
Do MMA posters realize the profit for selling F-22s and F-35s is about 7% of sale price? Not 70% or 700%, but a measley 7%? And that profit is verified by DCAA who reports all aspects of cost performance to the USG and Congress. There are no “hidden profits” or fees to find their way into Swiss bank accounts because that results in prison time. And taxes and R&D expenses are paid out of those profits before they are distributed to stockholders (typically employee pension funds).
So let’s compare profits of :diablo: evil :dev2: American defense businesses with other commercial businesses.
Your local grocer will typically make 5-7% profit.
Your local restaurant will typically make 10% profit.
Your local petrol station will make 2% profit while his wholesaler makes 3-5% profit.
The establishment which sold your telly typically makes 10-20% profit.
Most investment bankers will not touch a startup business unless the business plan shows an ROI of 25-30%.
And the US isn’t the only seller of military jets. Don’t like F-35s or F-15/16/18s? Go buy Typhoons, Rafales, Gripens, SU-30s or MiG-35s! Nobody is holding a gun to your head, forcing you to buy F-35s.
Hilarious that evil :diablo: Lockheed or :dev2: Boeing or :diablo: Raytheon or :dev2: General Dynamics tricked Saddam into attacking Iran and later Kuwait! 😀 Or those same companies tricked Jihadists to act out on 9/11, Madrid or 7/11. All for “profit”.
Actually, it is quite sad that intelligent persons can be programmed into believing such tripe.
With all due respect, getting over the fact that what you posted as reply was basically many emoticons (which actually makes me think there’s not much to argue against my unpleasant points :)), and not wanting to go on about this “programming” (have no idea what you mean, i know it features in movies over there though, sleeper soviet agents everywhere etc.), i’ll just reply that regarding profit, actually it’s far more than 7% imo. How comes? Well, taking as example F-35 (but could be anything else in place), what are the primary materials in that plane ? Let’s say for the sake of it titanium, aluminum and carbon composites. Now someone has to actually dig them out from the ground, separate them or whatever they do, and sell them at a profit. Now the next guy comes along and works it into bits and pieces, panels and whatnot, and he sells it at a profit to LM. Which LM puts it together as an F-35, adds this and that, paints it, and sells it at a profit!
Mind you this is just a representative example in no way factually correct, but i’m sure you get what i mean. Pretty sure there must be a lot more intermediary steps between excavating materials from the ground and transforming it into an F-35.
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