they want $50 billion for a “completely new system”

this will literally never ship, the higher the budget the more likely it is for IT projects to fail

but for 15 years money will go to their cronies

would not put it beneath them to do failures deliberately to generate support for their demands

the only two reasons I don’t think it’s on purpose is 1. that a conspiracy to do something like this would require too many people involved and 2. they’re fucking stupid