![](/static/253f0d9b/assets/icons/icon-96x96.png)
![](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/cd7879c3-cd1c-4108-806e-f9ca45e9b22a.png)
Do you know how much cash those things burn in their fuel tanks? I bet they could pay off the mortgages of everyone in their flight path with what they’re paying for fuel.
I live not too far from an army base whose helicopters regularly fly low over my neighborhood, rattling the windows and pictures on the wall, sometimes as late as 11:30 at night, and I think about this every time they pass.
The military is a boondoggle. It’s little more than a scam on a massive scale to funnel money out of taxpayers into the pockets of industrial contractors.
Yeah, so was McCain until he got onto the ticket and every GOP puppet master shoved their arms up his ass.