Here's a Little Perspective for You

[JayhawkSD]

1. Well, that's kind of hyperbolic

If you applied the same standard of cost accounting the the nation's 12 supercarriers, you would come up with a number an order of magnitude larger than the F-35. Heck, you'd probably have more than $1.45 trillion for the cost of developing, engineering, building, operating, manning, maintaining, reparing, transporting, and upgrading one super carrier, let alone twelve of them.

It's also a little wierd to be comparing the cost of developing, engineering, building, operating, manning, maintaining, reparing, transporting, and upgrading the F-35 to simply building the Interstate highway system. The proper comparison would include developing, engineering, operating, manning, maintaining, reparing and upgrading the Interstate system for its lifetime in addition to building it and would create a total cost probably far exceeding that $1.45 trillion cost of the F-35.