We will have no problem maintaining air superiority without the F-22 in foreseeable conflict.
The point was once made to me... What good is a great deal on an oriental carpet beater if I don't own an oriental carpet? 
Simply put the F-22 is not necessary right now and we cannot afford it at this time. By the time we'd have to have it... there will be something even better on the drawing board I assure you.
Trust me... The United States will not lose it's ability to fight and fight to win just because one over price and extremely unreliable weapons program is shelved. The maintenance times on the F-22 is beyond discussting that cost that much.
For that price it should have its own little R2D2 droid to take care of it.
We will have to agree to disagree. I believe that between the confidence going up after Bush was gone and the Stimulus Plan that everyone knows is starting to be pumped in that has stabilized conditions.
We could talk for a hundred years and you'd never convince me that just more Bush policy would have us rebounding at this time.
The cyclical nature of economies is just icing on the cake. I hope it helps President Obama a ton.
I have no worries whatsoever about going to war with either Russia or China.
And as President Eisenhower said... beware the vast military industrial complex...
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Obama never wanted them going over there on Bush's fandango of misrepresentations (read that lies) in the first place... so he's very consistent.