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	Name:	architect -
	Subject:	Archy..........
	Date:	7/15/2009 8:02:18 PM

The defense industry has I believe purposely put gutless elected representatives, especially senators, in a bind by spreading the work to as many locales as possible. These contractors are a lot more concerned about continuing to suck from the public teat and the bottom line than they are about national security or fiscal responsibility.

The F-22 cost almost $300,000,000 per copy and costs $50,000/hr to fly. It has serious and expensive maintenance issues and most glaring has never been un combat in any military theatre. W and Obama have tried to reign it in. It is a boon-doggle and I find it amusing and interesting that so many of the people who rant and rave loudest about ear-marks and pork when it is about study of volcanos or research of potato bugs or building museums just can't bring themselves to say no if it is for a military system that even the military doesn't want.

I also think it is interesting that so many anti Obama crowd are going around bad mouthing the use of Stimulus funds by the states to balance budgets for education and health rather than spending it on job creating infrastructure work. Well, in the first place, the infrastructure stimulus is just beginning (As someone familiar with construction I can tell you that even "shovel ready" projects take a lot of time to get off the ground) and in the second place what do they have against the teachers and healthcare workers whose jobs have been preserved?