Lindaland
  Global Unity 2.0
  Air Force asks for one..Congress orders three

Post New Topic  Post A Reply
profile | register | preferences | faq

UBBFriend: Email This Page to Someone! next newest topic | next oldest topic
Author Topic:   Air Force asks for one..Congress orders three
Node
Knowflake

Posts: 93
From: Nov. 11 2005
Registered: Apr 2009

posted August 06, 2009 06:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message
Last month, Congressional appropriators ordered three $65 million corporate jets (at a total cost of nearly $200 million), just a year after calling out Detroit executives for taking their own planes to testify on the health of the auto industry.

But wait -- it gets better.

"The Air Force had asked for one Gulfstream 550 jet (price tag: about $65 million) as part of an ongoing upgrade of its passenger air service," But the House Appropriations Committee, at its own initiative, added to the 2010 Defense appropriations bill another $132 million for two more airplanes and specified that they be assigned to the D.C.-area units that carry Members of Congress, military brass and top government officials."

Not surprisingly, the dispensation for three new Gulfstream aircraft doesn't stipulate which member of Congress made the request. The House Appropriations Committee doesn't even consider the request an earmark "because the... Committee viewed the additional aircraft as an expansion of an existing Defense Department program."

The Defense Department's new job? Defending members of Congress from flying coach.

    I haven't researched this fully. Just heard about it.
~ Surely if the Air Force asked for one... they only had one hand in a Boeing pocket!? Boeing planes made in Georgia, maybe it is stimulus for the Georgia economy.

IP: Logged

jwhop
Knowflake

Posts: 566
From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009

posted August 07, 2009 09:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message
Good find Node...and a nice commentary on the hypocrisy of members of congress.

IP: Logged

Node
Knowflake

Posts: 93
From: Nov. 11 2005
Registered: Apr 2009

posted August 10, 2009 07:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message
So far in the news is Gov Sanford [R] of the Great State of South Carolina.
    Surprise [?] 'hit on' his use of said "public" transportation. Y'all in the Americas have heard about Sanford? The gov- guy who was reported missing? Then it was reported that his whereabouts were hiking on the Appalachian Trail during national Hike Naked Week? I wish I could make this stuff up..but you know how Truth is.
    Well we now know that he had flown down to Argentina to be with his mistress.
    given that he is a well heeled traveler... He us up on some serious charges. Not for the mistress...no, many other uses of said transit. I expect much more from the MSM about "official" uses.

IP: Logged

All times are Eastern Standard Time

next newest topic | next oldest topic

Administrative Options: Close Topic | Archive/Move | Delete Topic
Post New Topic  Post A Reply
Hop to:

Contact Us | Linda-Goodman.com

Copyright © 2008

Powered by Infopop www.infopop.com © 2000
Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.46a