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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

'General Electric lobbied to revive financing for an alternate engine for a costly jet fighter project as the government was near shutdown..

thats right, as the government shutdown neared GE, the corporation that pays no taxes, was lobbying congress to build a costly jet engine that is not even needed.................thats why we are screwed............


.......from the NYTIMES.........."With $38 billion in cuts on the line in a $3.5 trillion budget, the clash over federal spending played out in numbers so big that most standard calculators had trouble tracking all the zeros. But in the end, a handful of relatively small-bore line items affecting particular industries attracted some of the most aggressive lobbying behind the scenes, as business interests, health care providers and others fought to hold on to, or kill, proposals that affected their bottom line"....read it here

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