Wow. We stank-shit, "can't get thar from hyre" Yankees is a-holes!!!
And I was feeling so smug about myselves!!!!!
Related: The Globe's Garbage Gates
War Looters' Whine
Defense Lobbyist Had Ear of Congress
"Arms plan has pain, some gain for N.E.; Gates lays out cuts in weapons spending; New investments could cushion blow of job losses" by Bryan Bender and Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | April 7, 2009
WASHINGTON - Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates proposed that General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works in Maine build all of the Zumwalt destroyer hulls rather than dividing the work between the Maine yard and another builder in Mississippi....
Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said the reallocation would mean "a steady workload for many, many years."
In the WAR BIDNESS, yay!!!
Hey, Mississip... (message from your friends in Maine)!
Members of Congress questioned some of Gates's decisions minutes after he made the plan public. "If we stop the F-22 program now, our industrial base will suffer a major blow before the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter reaches full-rate production," Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent, said in a statement. "This would result in the loss of thousands of jobs in Connecticut - the skilled workers we will need to support the F-35 in just a few years."
Why am I NOT the LEAST BIT SURPRISED!!!
Of course, NO ONE CARED when the BLOOMING COUNTRY OUTSOURCED practically everything the last 30 years, but....
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of lawmakers took issue with Gates's proposal to slash $1.4 billion, or roughly 15 percent, from the weapons budget of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency. Representative Ike Skelton, a Missouri Democrat who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, indicated that many lawmakers will need convincing on the entire plan, reminding Gates in a statement that "the buck stops with Congress, which has the critical Constitutional responsibility to decide whether to support these proposals."
Oh, LOOK at THIS!!
When it comes to PROTECTING WAR-LOOTERS and SHOVELING THEM TAX DOUGH, ALL of a SUDDEN the BALL-LESS CONGRESS discovered the CONSTITUTION?!
After IGNORING the DAMN THING on the WARS, BAILOUTS, SPYING, TORTURE, etc, etc?
Yeah, I'm sure the KICKBACKS posing as CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS don't hurt either!
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