Sounds good to me...?<p>Strange how all of the sudden everyone wants the wasteful F-35 program to continue just because Trump is now against it.<p>One of the few good Trump campaign promises, and seemingly the only one he's shown that he intends to keep so far, is that of cutting wasteful DoD programs. People should be happy about this, especially Democrats.<p>The same thing happened with TPP when Trump "killed it" (but Obama actually did it two weeks earlier when he announced the TPP won't be ratified anymore). Everyone was suddenly all for the TPP because Trump "killed it".<p>It's a wild ride to be relatively impartial and see all of these radical and irrational changes in sentiment about a policy simply based on who is in the White House.<p>Policies should be supported or opposed based on principle. You can't be against cutting <i>obvious</i> government waste, and then pro it, depending on whether it's your guy or the other guy in office. That's how terrible things are allowed to happen under the guise of "our guy did it, so it's okay".
Amusingly, this attack on the basis of "out of control costs" comes just a few weeks after the finalized contract for Low Initial Rate Production Lot 10 of the F-35 [0], which brings the cost of an F-35A model (the model the US is producing the most of both for itself and for foreign sales) to its lowest ever figure (about $80 million or so).<p>[0] <a href="http://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article/1012500" rel="nofollow">http://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article/...</a>