a plane that we have been building all these years, its mission-capable rate is down around 50 percent, where we spend, I think, about $40,000 per flight hour for the aircraft that has never flown a single mission in Iraq or Afghanistan, maybe that is not an airplane we should continue to build several hundred more.
Carper questions the continued production of the F-22 fighter due to poor performance metrics.
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Well, there is a good compromise out there, and I think if we are smart and don't give up today, we will find it.
I usually default to the golden rule, and I think in this case it's a pretty good guide as well.
You and our colleagues have heard me invoke in this room more times than I can count the Golden Rule: Treat other people the way I want to be treated.
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