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Posted on July 14, 2009 | tags

 
 

U.S.: Obama’s threatening a veto of his defense spending bill. Here’s why.

  • $1.75 billion cost of the last-minute addition to Obama’s defense spending bill, which adds seven costly F-22s back into the mix
  • 30
    hours
    amount of maintenance time it takes to keep the jets flying for an hour; it costs $44,000 an hour to fly them, and those jobs could go away source
 
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