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Citizens
Against Government Waste
Ohio’s Sen. Sherrod
Brown a Porker of the Month
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Sens. Sherrod Brown
(D-Ohio), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and John Kerry (D-Mass.) Porkers of
the Month for urging the Pentagon to release taxpayer funds to continue
developing General Electric’s alternate engine for the Joint Strike
Fighter. The alternate engine has been criticized as wasteful and
unnecessary by taxpayers, both the Bush and Obama Administrations, and
numerous top military officials.
Sens. Brown and Kerry represent states where the engine will be
developed and built. “The alternate engine has been a $3 billion
boondoggle and taxpayers should not sink one more dime of limited
resources into this failed project. This program has become the
epitome of senseless government waste, diverting resources away from
other important military projects and expenditures that keep the nation
and our troops safe and secure,” said CAGW President Tom Schatz.
“The only general who supports the alternate engine is General
Electric.” For insisting that taxpayers fund a useless jet engine
that will only exacerbate our country’s soaring debt, CAGW names Sens.
Brown, Kerry, and Leahy the January Porkers of the Month.
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