John Boehner hypocrite

[netrox]

Amazing.. John Boehner claims to be all for cutting spending but he orders that the military get plane with extra engine even though the military said, "We don't want extra engines!"

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MADDOW: John Boehner as speaker -- is John Boehner more serious about the deficit than this tax thing would suggest? Is there anything about him as a politician that suggests he does get this as an issue?

COLLINS: There's one thing, a plane, the F-35, which has two engines. Every time they build one, they build two engines, an extra engine just to put in your pocketbook in case the extra one you lose it somehow.

The Pentagon has been begging forever, please, please can we stop building two engines? They are built near John Boehner's district. And John Boehner will throw his body on the second engine any time. He's that serious about cutting the deficit.

F135 JSF Alternate Engine Competition Program for F-35 engine competition

 

[netrox]

Article:

"The answer is that the president, former President Bush, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the Pentagon's military leadership know an extra engine won't save money. Despite an endless lobbying campaign waged by supporters and foreign allies while the extra engine continues to suffer setbacks, four facts remain.

First, future competition would occur only in name. The Navy and Marines have made it clear they want one engine: the F135. International customers will not order enough F-35s to split their buy, leaving the Air Force to be forced into a "split buy" to generate quantities, complicating supply trains and increasing taxpayer costs.

Second, given our deficit, taxpayers cannot afford to spend $2.9 billion on an extra engine. The Government Accountability Office warned about assuming potential cost savings saying, "results are dependent on how the government decides to run the competition, the number of aircraft that are ultimately purchased and the exact ratio of engines awarded to each contractor." They didn't say the F136 engine would save $20 billion, as supporters claim, because it won't."

Joint Strike Fighter needs only one engine - Washington Times

 

[Foxrac]

Oh wow. *facepalm*

It is not you, Netrox.

 

[TXgolfer]

Written by....

DONALD W. SHEPPERD

Major General, USAF (Ret.)

Consultant, Pratt & Whitney

Tucson, Ariz.




And the other is from the Pratt & Whitney website.....

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[TXgolfer]

Industry feud it appears.....

Israel

 

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Opinion: Competing F-35 engine saga continues - Bob Barr - POLITICO.com

Members of Congress and the many others supporting the competing-engine plan have a powerful ally in an unlikely source — the Government Accountability Office.


The GAO, which has conducted at least two congressionally requested studies of the costly and much-delayed F-35 program, concluded in a March 22, 2007, report that congressional funding for the competing-engine plan would save billions of taxpayer dollars over the life of the program.

Thus has been created one of Washington’s strangest funding battles in recent years: A government agency, GAO, is advocating in favor of competition, and nongovernmental organizations are opposing competition.