{"id":305,"date":"2008-09-30T14:40:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T21:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/30\/grounding-the-f22-if-you-dont-build-them-they-cant-be-shot-down\/"},"modified":"2008-09-30T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T21:40:59","slug":"grounding-the-f22-if-you-dont-build-them-they-cant-be-shot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/30\/grounding-the-f22-if-you-dont-build-them-they-cant-be-shot-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounding the F22: if you don&#8217;t build them, they can&#8217;t be shot down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can practically see Putin smiling as he reads in Pravda that the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/news\/world\/30-09-2008\/106499-raptors-0\">USA&#8217;s next president is likely to be a penny-pinching commander-in-chief.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The next U.S. president, John McCain or Barack Obama, is expected to be a penny-pinching commander in chief when it comes to buying new military weapons. And that&#8217;s bad news for the Air Force&#8217;s push to buy scores more F-22 Raptors, a supersonic jet fighter built to dominate enemy airspace. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Putin probably planted the article&#8230;.&nbsp; which doesn&#8217;t mean it won&#8217;t be true, especially if we still have a Democrat Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;d rather own an F-35 VTOL craft; better commuter vehicle, doesn&#8217;t need a landing strip.&nbsp;  And besides, then I&#8217;ll be able to do something about it when the Russians invade the USA via Mexico after staging in Venezuela, with help from the Chinese in Panama and Cuba.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-305\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/30\/grounding-the-f22-if-you-dont-build-them-they-cant-be-shot-down\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-305\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/30\/grounding-the-f22-if-you-dont-build-them-they-cant-be-shot-down\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-305\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/30\/grounding-the-f22-if-you-dont-build-them-they-cant-be-shot-down\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/30\/grounding-the-f22-if-you-dont-build-them-they-cant-be-shot-down\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/30\/grounding-the-f22-if-you-dont-build-them-they-cant-be-shot-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can practically see Putin smiling as he reads in Pravda that the USA&#8217;s next president is likely to be a penny-pinching commander-in-chief. 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