This Is Fiscal Restraint?
It’s pretty amazing what passes for “fiscal restraint” in Washington, D.C. these days, isn’t it?
From The Wall Street Journal:
House leaders are dropping plans to spend $330 million on Air Force passenger planes for use by senior government officials that were not requested by the Pentagon.
Instead, the House will only seek $220 million to purchase one Gulfstream plane and three Boeing aircraft, as originally proposed by Department of Defense officials.
Well, well … what a sacrifice. We just hope that Congressional leaders will learn to “live without.”
After all, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s staff has been known to pitch royal hissy fits whenever Gulfstream jets aren’t made available for her use.
Comments
By dirtbogger on August 11th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
You mean they just do what they want with our tax dollars. Maybe because we have a government that does not fear the people any more. That would mean that we are no longer a republic. Maybe we have been taken over by coorperate fascism, does anybody else think that is possible?
By rebel on August 11th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
dirtbogger, its already happened.
By follydude on August 14th, 2009 at 12:34 am
man, if only Gulfsteams were fabricated in Greenville instead of Savannah, the song would be a whole lot different.