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Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) likes to tout his opposition to earmarks. Indeed, since first entering Congress in 1991, the congressman has never requested a single earmark. And, he promised to cut spending by $100billion the first year.

Those two frequently repeated objectives are being translated into legislation in a 359-page bill filed on the House floor Friday evening—legislation that will be considered by the full House later this week without the benefit of hearings or even committee deliberation.

But buried deeply in these 359 pages of ugly surprises is a provision that would mean one community in America would do a lot better than all of the others. The legislation added an estimated $450 million for a particular bit of defense spending that the Department of Defense did not ask for and does not want.

But that does not deter union leaders, company executives, and local government officials in Dayton and Cincinnati from arguing their case. At a rally held at one of GE’s Ohio facilities last October, the company announced the addition of 500 new jobs at the Cincinnati and Dayton plants and emphasized the importance of congressional action to override Pentagon objections to the program. A story from the October 22 edition of the Dayton Business Journal entitled “GE’s fighter engine ‘a huge issue’ for Tri-State economy” reported:

The Pentagon insists GE’s second engine isn’t needed, that it has no use for it, and that further development is a waste of money. But the engine’s supporters in Congress—and Evendale, where GE employs more than 7,000—beg to differ...“It’s a huge issue. There’s a lot at risk here,” said Gary Jordan, president of United Aerospace Workers Local 647.

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Yea, I've been squalking about that extra engine for quite a while now.
I know this statement will draw a bunch of crap, but it is true :

The REAL fiscally conservative party is the Democrats. The REAL party of fiscal hyprocracy is the Republicans.
Only a brain-washed by Fox News bobbel headed sheeple cannot see that.
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Originally posted by seeweed:
The REAL party of fiscal hyprocracy is the Republicans.


Agreed...


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Originally posted by seeweed:
The REAL fiscally conservative party is the Democrats.


If you really believe that, then you are just as brainwashed as those you accuse.

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Posted 14 February 2011 12:51 PM Hide Post


Thank you for telling the truth Renegade. S.W. is right about the engines but wrong about the dimocraps.
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Thank you for telling the truth Renegade. S.W. is right about the engines but wrong about the dimocraps.


I suspect those engines probably would be in Obama's budget or would be offset in some other funding for other GE products. Since Obama is as much a Crony Capitalist as any other third-world despot and Jeffrey Immelt is a crony of Obama, I can be sure that GE will be making out like a bandit on the taxpayer's dime.
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Originally posted by Renegade Nation:
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Originally posted by seeweed:
The REAL party of fiscal hyprocracy is the Republicans.


Agreed...

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Originally posted by seeweed:
The REAL fiscally conservative party is the Democrats.


If you really believe that, then you are just as brainwashed as those you accuse.


OK, well if you actually check, I think you will find that the most fiscally conservative presidential administrations since WWII are overwhelmingly Democrats, if what you consider is the fiscal condition of the national budget when each left office.
Google is ready when you are.
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Originally posted by seeweed:
Yea, I've been squalking about that extra engine for quite a while now.
I know this statement will draw a bunch of crap, but it is true :

The REAL fiscally conservative party is the Democrats. The REAL party of fiscal hyprocracy is the Republicans.
Only a brain-washed by Fox News bobbel headed sheeple cannot see that.


Just WHAT ARE you smoking "see weed"?

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