The federal government wants to replace the current White House helicopter fleet. There are currently 19, yes 19 copters in the White House fleet. They are intended for use by the president, vice president and cabinet members.
They intend on INCREASING the number to 21.
They have wasted $3.2 billion on the last FAILED replacement project that produced not one new copter. How do you fail at buying helicopters? Well the federal government can fail at it.
http://www.cato.org/blog/white-house-helicopter-fleetSome thoughts.
1. Why does the White House need what are basically custom made copters? Why can't a off the shelf copter do the job? Yeah, there are some security concerns, but there is no need for custom made machines.
2. Why do we need 19 soon to be 21 copters? Frankly cabinet members shouldn't have access, and the VP access could be cut back. I think 5-7 would be more then enough.
3. How the blankey-blank do you spend 3.2 billion dollars and have absolutely nothing to show for it? Why are people being paid for work they aren't doing? Wish we could figure a way to make politicians personally responsible for stupid wasting of our tax dollars.
4. Frankly, what is wrong with the current fleet? The only change I would do it to reduce the size of the fleet to a more manageable size, with a max of 7.