Saturday, February 11, 2017

Cock O' the Walk



Oh, "the government" made the accounting estimate error.  Not the Don.



So, don't worry yourself about that pesky wall. Instead...



...everything is grand.

But let's talk about that F-35 deal he made.  It turns out, he didn't.  He had a talk with Lockheed's CEO during which she told him that they expected to lower the price of the next run of planes due to "the company’s long-term effort to bring down the cost of the F-35 by lowering costs in the supply chain and manufacturing."  He immediately went forth and claimed credit.

As for Air Force One, we'll have to wait and see.
Richard Aboulafia, a senior aviation analyst with the Virginia-based Teal Group, questioned the usefulness of Trump’s tactics. He said he assumed Tuesday’s meeting was “theater.”

“These sorts of programs are all extremely complicated in terms of requirements, definitions and trade-offs.”

[...]

Neither Boeing nor the Air Force have indicated what might be reduced to cut costs.

Trump “probably has an idea that Air Force One is a little like his personal business jet so that you use a different supplier to get a cheaper grade of gold on the faucet rather than different electronic warfare suites,” Aboulafia said. “It’s really not like that at all.”

  Dayton Daily News
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:


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