GOP Votes for Spending Boondoggle

[tk149]

Missing: A party of fiscal responsibility
If Found: Please run in the next election. Please?

 

[MotF Bane]

They're both out-of-control spendaholics. What is the difference these days besides minor squabbles over social policies designed to make people think they are different?

It's like you can read my mind! Except when it comes to NFL.

 

[MotF Bane]

Missing: A party of fiscal responsibility
If Found: Please run in the next election. Please?

 

[BoberFett]

i have been saying that for years. I'm really amazed so many have not figured it out

Hope and change, man!

 

[Hacp]

So we can all agree that this is a bipartisan raping of the taxpayer? Lets get rid of this program as well as welfare, social security, and medicare/medicaid. Only then will the nation be solvent.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

It's like you can read my mind! Except when it comes to NFL.

Hey, don't worry, no one's perfect. :awe: You'll soon realize the folly of Patriots nation.

 

[PottedMeat]

Yea there is so much money to be made from this that GE/RR are running ads even on the Metro trains here in DC telling people to support it.

I REALLY hope Obama vetos the bill as a whole till it gets taken out, with a lot of other pork. Even Gates and DoD say its not needed.

got a picture of one of these ads?

where would they even develop this beast? the UK?

 

[werepossum]

Obama and Immelt are BFFs so the Messiah is going to veto anyway if cut, but this does show that Republicans have learned little since the days of Bush II. Being marginally less insane than the Democrats is NOT the answer. This is a damned shame as after almost a decade of testing there is zero evidence that the Pratt and Whitney engine will fail and building different batches of planes with different engines is a monstrously bad idea. If GE and Rolls-Royce want this engine developed they should fund it themselves.

Granted this is a drop in the vast bucket of the federal budget, but if we begin accepting half a billion as not worth the effort then we're screwed.

 

[zsdersw]

The real problem is that politicians who "bring home the bacon" are more popular and get reelected. Too many Americans have a double (or triple) standard with regards to government spending.

 

[Vette73]

got a picture of one of these ads?

where would they even develop this beast? the UK?

I'll see if I can get one on the next metro with my phone. They are not on all of them, but to be running ads for a program like this setup like this just screams something is not right.

 

[Vette73]

The real problem is that politicians who "bring home the bacon" are more popular and get reelected. Too many Americans have a double (or triple) standard with regards to government spending.

Thats why if people really want to cut spending the first thing they should do is judge their elected rep's based on what they do NOT bring home and also write them to ask them to bring home less.

 

[Jhhnn]

The difference here, I think, is that Dems broke with their leadership in support of pork. On the Repub side, they joined their leadership in support.

Near as I can tell, anyway.

More of the usual contrariness and doublespeak from the Repub leadership. Military pork is the most wasteful, yet it's their favorite kind.

 

[Mursilis]

Thats why if people really want to cut spending the first thing they should do is judge their elected rep's based on what they do NOT bring home and also write them to ask them to bring home less.

You realize, I hope, that that will NEVER happen. Self-interest is just too great. People are inherently selfish, and there's little incentive to rise above that.

 

[Jaskalas]

So it seems no matter which party they are much the same.

Those who want a change in this are not represented.

 

[lupi]

I've heard several radio ads recently for this. Haven't payed much attention to it otherwise, but sounds like a sound approach in the ads.

 

[Mani]

Yep. Like I've been saying, cons are all about small government except for all the stuff they like.

 

[werepossum]

The difference here, I think, is that Dems broke with their leadership in support of pork. On the Repub side, they joined their leadership in support.

Near as I can tell, anyway.

More of the usual contrariness and doublespeak from the Repub leadership. Military pork is the most wasteful, yet it's their favorite kind.

Hardly. If the Dem leadership wasn't in favor of it, it certainly wouldn't be an anonymous earmark.

Military pork is admittedly by far my favorite kind too, because the lives of the people who use this stuff may be saved by the pork. Compare that with yet another Robert Byrd train station or a peanut museum. Nonetheless it is still pork and the military could use half a billion a hell of a lot better than this.

 

[nonlnear]

Hardly. If the Dem leadership wasn't in favor of it, it certainly wouldn't be an anonymous earmark.

Exactly.

Two magical letters: G E. Friend of every powerful person inside the beltway, including Obama. It's laughable to hear the power brokers faking any distance between themselves and this. Just about the only enemy of GE in the Democrat party of note is Dennis Kucinich, and that goes to show how far you can rise without selling out to the machine...