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The $3.5Billion Tweet

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Gromit | 22:37 Mon 12th Dec 2016 | News
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After a tweet by Donald Trump, Locheed saw $3.5billion wiped off its share price. The drop looked like this...

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/12/12/15/shares-trump-latest.jpg

Scary.

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What did he tweet? LOcheed is crap or something?
he cancelled the presidential new jet saying it was a rip off

right on there

but he was meant to be a industry man !
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// The F-35 program and cost is out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th. //

Britain's BAE Systems saw its stock slip 1.3 per cent after Mr Trump's tweet.
Do the CIA still do assassinations? Must be a good case building up ...
Do Locheed sell counterfeit goods?
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I suppose if he was in charge here he'd be cancelling Trident for the same reason.
Rather than commission a new presidential jet he could upgrade a Trumpton jet at half the cost. Then when he leaves he can write it off as a tax loss for 20 years.
So you would rather he spent money unnecessarily just to give a public company more profit?
// So you would rather he spent money unnecessarily just to give a public company more profit?//

the first pres to wise up on this was Eisenhower ( yeah yeah I know s/o is gonna quip " Ice and who? er " ) in 1958 apparently.

Post Korean war [ka- who an' what ?] he realised that his ex army pals in the US forces were ordering up toys for the boys ( rifles and things) which didnt do what they were bought for ( kill gooks in fifties speak) - but were big made a lot of noise and cost a lot


Eisenhower was the first to front up "the industrial-military complex" which I thought was straight out of Catch-22 but no instead was straight out of the Presidents mouth
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DB I think the most televised war was Vietnam
and was a disaster for all concerned

more recently journos and hacks have been embedded in combat units
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not an awful lot coming out of Syria to erm entertain us even tho they all have mobies and internet links. Like you know the doctors and staff in a hospital being lined up against a wall and shot - sort of because it didnt happen .....

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