paid off in full to the American people.. with interest.

It's called 'follow the money trail'. Musk treated it like a legit loan. These other 'companies' didn't. . .so where did the money go?

You don't think he became the richest man on Earth by selling gazillions of those ugly Tesla trucks to the Libz, do you?

No of course not, I know he been contracted by multiple presidents for big money. Same thing with a lot of other companies that provide services , now that is not to say that those payments are ridiculously high, I was watching some of the goverment contracts for our military shit, someone held up a bag of ball bearings, that you could buy for like 4 bucks at any hardward store, and showed it was listed as $1800 in the military/government contract. All those contracts should be audited and we should know where all the money goes that we pay.

That line in Independence Day, "You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?" was for real. This came out around the time of Reagan, a ruckus about a hammer, and yes, a toilet seat that was designed for the government or military whatev and they really did cost that much. So they came out as examples of ridiculous government waste.

That shit is insane-o. Could you imagine making a good hammer for about 3 bucks and contracting the government for 5K of them at 20K a hammer , and the government is like "sounds good!"

That's basically what was happening.

yup, 1 hammer would cover the entire cost of production and every thing else would be pure profit.

Exactly, how many would it take to pay off design costs?

done!! only 48 thousand dollars, although it kinda looks like a hatchet ;D

I like it. Duel use, you should get paid double.

Hilarious, modda.

I think to have any credibility on this issue, some more consistency would be very helpful... where was the outrage before?

Well done political humor is funny, regardless of personal political views. Not so much so here...