While the politicos in Washington stage the second week of the shutdown psychodrama, the Temple of Mammon known as the Pentagon chugs merrily along wasting yet more taxpayer dollars; no aid for the huddled masses, but plenty for the warmongers' free lunch. Case in point: the new C-27J cargo plane which will join the $35 billion worth of other military aircraft rotting in the Arizona desert at Davis-Monthon. At least jobs repairing bridges, constructing high speed rail between urban megaplexes, and creating 21st electric grid among other needed infrastructure projects would leave a useful legacy. Nothing useful about an newly-built aircraft that will never fulfill its intended military mission: