GOP LEADER McCARTHY Visits Ridgecrest on 9/11? Is BRAC, an F-35 or a Smaller Footprint In The Cards for NAWSCL? (Caption Contest Alert!)

“We Are A Military Town”
Ridgecrest CA, September 19, 2021
Something we should have learned in the 20th Century is now being repeated in the 21st Century. Haven’t we learned anything?
War is unsustainable. That’s the Truth. We have been at war continuously since the War to end all Wars, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. We need War, we profit from War and we control ourselves by always having an enemy to fight in our War. Wars kill, they destroy and they cost a lot of money.
Our economy would crash without War. We just sold both the United Kingdom and Japan F-35’s, and as the United Kingdom Defence Ministry said in March 2021;
Jeremy Quin, the minister for defense procurement, said the UK would be adding to the 48 jets it has already purchased from Lockheed Martin. By 2025, we will be placing orders—I’m absolutely confident—for more of them”
We wonder if the United Kingdom is still enthusiastic about the F-35 in the aftermath of Afghanistan?
We sell our war equipment all over the world. The UK, Israel and others come to China Lake for testing and evaluation. Raytheon are McDonald Douglas are their customers too. How much priority do the contractors place on testing here versus anywhere else with hardware-in-the-loop simulation. We don’t really know squat about what they really do there these days (Secret City), but you know we’d like to ask ‘how’s business?’.
Our spending on the military is $750 Billion dollars per year, more than the next 10 nations combined including China and Russia. Do we love war, or money? It’s hard to tell anymore, people just don’t care or they rely on war for their livelihood and it’s just another day at the office before a “3 and 9”.

To the question of the future of the Navy at China Lake, that’s a question for all of us to consider as we plan for the future of Ridgecrest and China Lake, and it doesn’t look pretty in spite of the fact that the Navy’s spending $3 Billion to repair and remodel a 75 year old, functionally obsolescent, earthquake damaged and profit-driven test bed for the Military Industrial Complex: Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex. – YouTube
Anything can happen in War, and we just left $88 Billion in new military hardware in Afghanistan as a down payment on the next War. Problem is, we’re running out of money to finance our Wars, and we can’t sell the hardware to the Taliban so we give it away.
Norm Singleton via The Mises Institute has called the F-35 program a terrible investment as it makes “America less safe by spending us into bankruptcy”.
The Navy base has been the leading test bed for the F-18 and it’s role at the facility is likely history so it’s only natural for the F-35 to come to NAWSCL.
But will the F-35 be coming to NAWSCL? The Air Force is already talking about the next generation fighter jet. We need just one F-35 here, then another, like a drug that we can’t quit. And now you might understand why you might be considered to be non-essential and treated like millions of your fellow citizens. Haven’t we had enough War?
“We are a Military town!” exclaimed one of the attendees at this weeks City Council Meeting. Indeed.
Congressman and GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy visited his home district on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, now a day of tragedy that will live in shame, where Ridgecrest and the Naval Air Warfare Station at China Lake are located, just 150 miles north of Los Angeles, California. He was here for the annual “Parade of 1000 Flags” in “The Most Patriotic City in America”. (Secret City)

Mike Sinnott
Publisher
(P.S. Your humble Publisher is an expert in money, finance, real estate and political science, and the opinions herein are his own. He is a native China-Laker and a Patriot.)
Parade of 1000 Flags, Ridgecrest, California. September 11, 2021





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