Approval of More Stealth Bombers
The invincibility of the B-2 Stealth bomber was unquestionably verified when one considers how Senate approval of President Bush’s request for 20 of these $2.2-billion-per-aircraft bargains didn’t cause even the slightest blip on the nation’s political radar screen.
The openness of this Stealth deal underlines the state of our national economic insanity. It stuns one to contemplate what would be done with the money, if just one less B-2 were bought:
-- Retraining of laid-off defense workers; loans to help start new small businesses; development grants to advance technology--job and wealth creation!
Well, if it isn’t called economic insanity, how about calling the approval vote a national economic suicide wish?
HAROLD WEINSTEIN
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