Price For Freedom – $35 Billion to Airbus!
Posted on February 5, 2010
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The United States Senate is being held up right now, not at gun point, but at “give my state the pork barrel pet projects I want or the government will cease to function” point. In a most unusual move Senator Shelby from Alabama placed a unilateral hold on every single nominee Obama asked for unless the congress gives his state 40 billion dollars.
One is a $35 billion contract to allow Northrop Grumman and Airbus, not Boeing, build an Air Force refueling tanker(more on that here), and the other an FBI explosives testing center that has not been built despite Shelby earmarking $45 million for it in 2008.
The testing center I think could be up for debate (though certainly not to hold up the entire senate for), but I have no idea what this republican obsession is with Airbus. Who had sex with these senators to make them think our government should outsource making planes to a company that’s going to overcharge us just as much, if not more, than Boeing. They’re foreign and transportation costs more, oh and that crazy thing called unemployment, which in the US is still 10%, and the republicans will completely destroy our government unless we outsource more jobs to Europe. Hey everyone, remember those jobs you all thought we had REPUBLICANS ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO PUT YOU OUT OF WORK.
I’m not trying to say this in a, democrats are doing sooo much better way, but the numbers pretty much speak for themselves.
The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak Friday when the government released January’s unemployment rate showing an unexpected decline from 10 percent to 9.7 percent. It was the first drop in seven months.
So by the logic of places like Fixed Noise who constantly harp on Chairman Mao light for being a raging socialist who’s killing babies in the street for sport this recently surge in employment, while small, means that Obama just won the entire universe. I’d love to deny it, but if the number going up past 10% meant that he was desperately trying to destroy this nation, like the job killing republicans, than surely a number below 10% means everything Obama touches turns to gold, and he has officially become worthy of an all out celebration of the best human the universe will ever know. We need a constitutional amendment praising our leader for how great he is, and we should consider abolishing term limits so we can keep this guy in office until he has more kids and they can become leaders too…right?
I wish I could extort the federal government and act like it wasn’t a big deal. I wish I could tell the government, “give me all the money you don’t have or I’ll throw a hissy fit”. I wish we had laws that not only made this behavior illegal, but placed a social stigma on it that wouldn’t require a court room to hand out judgment, but that every citizen would take it upon themselves to build a giant wall around where this guy lives so he cannot infect our society anymore with his filth. It’s one thing when republicans want to disagree on health care, and I think their claim that health care is fine, if people are ok with that, is perfectly acceptable if you don’t care about the budget, but to place a blanket hold on every single person Obama wants on his staff? Shelby deserves to be in jail, now.
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