Message #2178

[ekg]

why did people expect anything different from the same people that put this country in the fix it's in? It amazes me the forgiveness we show.. or maybe it's amnesia or stupidity..

It's all about them.. never about us.

however pure Boehner's motives may be, the dirty truth is that a stall in the recovery would bring political benefits to the Republicans in the 2012 elections. It is in their political interests for unemployment to remain higher for the next two years. "So be it" is callous but rational

ummm duh!

the best part is he'll kill off the rest of the country to get the national leverage his party wants.. but to keep his personal leverage he'll spend billions on something no one wants but him..

Among the savings proposed by the Obama administration (and before that, the Bush administration) is to end the wasteful effort to develop a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Pentagon is satisfied with the engine it has[/b], made by Pratt & Whitney, and it doesn't want the second engine, made by General Electric and others. Eliminating the second engine would save $450 million this year and some $3 billion over 10 years.[/b]

But it just so happens that a GE plant that develops the second engine employs 7,000 people in Evendale, Ohio, near Boehner's district. Rather than take a so-be-it attitude toward jobs his constituents may hold, he's backing an earmark-like provision in the spending legislation to keep funding the unneeded GE engine.

"I believe that over the next 10 years this will save the government money," Boehner reasoned at his news conference.

he can 'believe' what he wants if it's his money he's spending.. but for someone wanting to cut spending AND stop the gov't from forcing people to do or pay for something they don't want.. he has a funny way of showing that by unnecessarily wasting billions and forcing the DoD to  take something it doesn't need or want.