Boehner thinks 'we're broke,' but can afford wasteful spending in Ohio

Don't forget the insincere drunken crocodile tears when you say hell no to the Weeper of the House Boner.

Paul.... GE makes decent engines for commercial and military aircraft alike.... The issue is that the F-35 already has an engine that works. Why further complicate the military supply system with two engines?

To go further than that.... why complicate the military with a weapons system that doesn't work, and isn't necessary! Just my opinion.

I thought the article said the engine did not work, but to further my point the entire issue of spending on a bloated military at all, let alone to the tune we spend on worthless crap we will sell to Israel at a loss, under the guise of protecting freedom, while we really are protecting some small group of digustingly rich people's profit margin at no gain to Americans, while we cut food stamps is absurd.

I think we're lucky to have a guy like Gates in there...Even the top brass realizes we are collapsing under the weight of our arms. Reality is, when we count Total Military AND domestic security, we are looking at 1 trillion per year or more. Thats says to me we are scaredy cats who are going bankrupt for craven fear of personal security above all else. Not to American if you ask me.

Yes, in order to justify a corporate shill who you like there must be something more to it. It couldn't possibly be that Boehner is a POS sellout and so are most neocons just like all the liberals have been saying for decades. No, you must be right. There must be some dark cloak and dagger reason that the Sec. of Defense says that this thing is unnecessary and wasteful. Some reason other than greed from corporate puppet masters and political con men. I mean, greed and political power never motivate people to lie and steal, do they? In case you missed what was dripping from those statements, here's your tag. /sarc

Did you notice that W. also tried to kill this worthless project? Here's the AP article. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_re_us/us_congress_spending

Boehner couldn't be more phony and transparent if he tried. I suppose if he gets this @!$%# passed, then he'll be handing out cash to your teapublican congressional mercenaries as it is tougher to trace than the checks he's used in the past.

This issue has been going on for quite some time. The best I can understand is the Pentagon is happy with the Pratt engine but for purely political reasons, GE is apparently going to build some of the engines along with Pratt. To me, this is just stupid. Especially from the standpoint of having to train the maintenance crews and stock parts for both instead of having one engine for all F-35's.

redphish - if, as you say and others are suggesting, this is a political thing, it really appears to be the textbook example of what's wrong in Washington and Boehner should rise above it in order to show that he knows the difference between right and wrong.

I agree completely.

Military contractors have learned to play the game well. Build a weapon system and place components for it in as many states as you can. That way, it becomes difficult for the congressman from that district to kill the program as it means a loss of jobs and government money. As an example B-2 bomber, and C-17 transport.

To make further comment on the C-17, the Air Force was required to take more aircraft than they wanted because congressmen voted that way. It wasn't military need that drove the purchase, it was political greed.

At least it's a better ride than the C-130. I went into Baghdad on a C-17 and went out on a C-130. Quite a difference!

redphish, interesting point. Isn't Connecticut a blue state? It would also be interesting to know how many of the 7,500 workers in Ohio contributed to Boehner's campaign and how much...

If the Pentagon says it only needs one engine and is happy with the one it has, these Congressmen are looking pretty stupid right now.

GE paid no corp. taxes last year, but got a healthy refund. That's enough government aid for one corporate entity, isn't it?

jabbausaf...... how was the boxed lunch thought?

Didn't spend but a couple of hours in a C-130. Guess I should consider myself lucky.

I wasn't on either long enough for meal service haha. We were only on them from Qatar to Baghdad and then for the return trip at the end of the tour. Both times I had sparkling canteen water and granola bars from in my DCU pockets.

Riding in the jump seats of a C-130 sucks ass.

Education FTM....... Don't candy coat it..... tell us how you really feel about it!

Those that never took the oath of enlistment, just don't know what they are missing! Free medical, free dental, get to see the world..... (sarcasm of course!)

Some of my (fondest????) memories were having an arresting gear cable running through my berthing compartment on the O3 level which is just under the flight deck. The bang of the hook, the "Zing" of the arresting cable paying out, and then the grinding of the cable as it is retracted for the next trap. For thosethat don't know..... Flight ops on a carrier go on 24-7. Believe it or not, you learn to sleep through the noise.

I always wondered how it was up forward for the pilots that berthed close to the water brakes for the catapults.

Since I was on the C-130 when going out of Iraq, I have rather a fond memory of it

Flynavy, let's see if I can approximate it. First there's this really loud BANG as a 50,000 pound aircraft slams into the deck in what amounts to a controlled crash, then a zwoosh sound at about 90 decibels as a 2 inch thick steel cable zips down the deck trying to stop an aircraft going around 160 to 200 mph, then when it stops you get to listen to the LOVELY sound of a couple of 100 feet of that same cable being dragged back up the steel deck...I too got berthed right under the cables...oh and lets not forget the scream of the jet engines as the pilot has it in full afterburner in case he missed the cable...

Jabbausaf....Being a Cold War vet, I have no first hand experience with Iraq. I do understand that it is a nice place to be FROM!

Education.... The Enterprise (best boat in the fleet) had the #3 wire going through the compartments back around frame 246. The engine for that wire was right across the passageway from my coup with the cable running through the same. I also did a cruse on the Connie. What boats did you get to "Adventure" on?

I was in Power Production in the AF, which, for some reason, includes barrier maintenance in addition to the operation and maintenance of electrical power generators. So I've also got my share of experience with arresting cables and their operation. Navy AAS are much worse than AF ones, because they've *got* to stop the plane within a set distance. Ours were a lot friendlier to the pilots, and at Kadena AB we preferred to have Navy pilots do our certification tests (where a plane has to take the cable) because the AF pilots were p*ss**s about it, but the Navy pilots were just glad our cables were so gentle.

Man, nothing in the world matches the experience of being 75 feet from the runway edge, with double hearing protection on, as the fighter squadrons would take off in the early morning, seeing the blue-hot ringed flame of the F-15s as they powered down the runway past you and took off into the sky. God I miss it. Nobody was as close to those things when they were taking off as we were.

I'm "Old Corps", Flynavy. I was on Saratoga and Midway. On a cold morning just stand about 50 feet behind the jet and warm up during preflight...

We did that with diesel generators in Power Pro.

Amen! From one who was present at regular feedings in the 1980s..........

The Greed Over People Party is harmful to children and other living things...

Tanman Boner is an IDIOT and a liar!
A drunken bastard and phony crier!

He'd make a blubering spectacle of himself. He's a crying shame.

Pelosi couldn't save her own ass.

She had more balls than Beohner ever had ...Whats the work schedule...123 days this year? wow 17 weeks. Besides women hating legislation about wedge issues, what has the repug house done? what are they going to do the 3 days left tht they work this month?

Pelosi couldn't save her own ass.

She's still in office.

I really don't think Republicans realized that just because a politician is no longer in a specific position within the House or Senate doesn't mean they've lost the election in their home district or state. I think they thought that when Democrats lost the House, it meant that Pelosi was going to lose her position as representative for SF. Shrug.

i have to refine my search to many KY companies showing up! Which would include McConnell

I gave him the benefit of doub, this is only a 25 mile radius......and the people who have lost jobs keep voting for this fake?

http://workingamerica.org/jobtracker/index.cfm?zipCode=45043&zipRadius=25&companyName=&industry=&appState=zipSearch&stateSelect=&sortToggle=ASC&vioCode=1111&companyid=&oshCat=0&x=48&y=4

As somebody who lives in Ohio currently, you're absolutely right. Anywhere, outside of the Columbus metro area, Yellow Springs, and maybe some of Cleveland, is either farm country stuck in the 70s or ruined decaying rust belt cities full of failure and racism. Dayton is terrible. Rural Ohio is terrible. Columbus is a shining beacon in all that, a diamond in the midden heap.

From the looks of his skin tone he'll need it.

Well Mr Orange Glow just got upset. The freshman just voted agaisnt him.

"Give these new freshmen credit. They went against their own leadership," said Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., also a foe of the alternative engine.

That engine just got defunded baby!