The Senate debated Tuesday whether to spend $1.75 billion on seven additional F-22 jets, a decision that pits the possible loss of thousands of defense jobs against Obama administration assertions that the Pentagon has enough of the fighters and the program should be terminated. (May need to register) Full Story »
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A bit of interesting info on the split vote. More detail on the corporate contributors to the democrats who voted for the unnecessary planes would fill out the picture.
Glad to see McCain and some others are in the lead of cooler heads and amazed to see that McCain is standing with our President and SOD on this ... More »
The current weapons procurement system, he said in a floor speech Tuesday morning, “is out of control,” and went on to recall President Dwight D. ... More »
The F=22 will join a multitude of other strike systems that outlived their intended purpose, at least in this instance the system procurement was stopped.
The Post provides the Obama party line context that F-22s were a Soviet relic. Missing is the crucial context that the billions for the F-22 is merely a drop in the Pentagon's budget, and, according to the New York Times, 2,400 F-35s are on their way anyway. That's right. 2,400. So why was this vote so important? Because Obama said so.
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