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	<title>Comments on: Defense Spending As Stimulus, Part Deux</title>
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		<title>By: The Atlantic's transparent Raptor puff-piece -- Have they been bought off? &#124; Non Vivant</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/27782/defense-spending-as-stimulus-part-deux/comment-page-1#comment-18875</link>
		<dc:creator>The Atlantic's transparent Raptor puff-piece -- Have they been bought off? &#124; Non Vivant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] press releases, banner and e-mail ads, a YouTube channel, and by Georgia politicians including Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss and Blue Dog Democratic Representative David Scott. (Georgia is home to the Lockheed assembly plant [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] press releases, banner and e-mail ads, a YouTube channel, and by Georgia politicians including Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss and Blue Dog Democratic Representative David Scott. (Georgia is home to the Lockheed assembly plant [...]</p>
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		<title>By: TPile &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Stealth Jet Gets Online Push, as a Jobs Program</title>
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		<dc:creator>TPile &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Stealth Jet Gets Online Push, as a Jobs Program</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Spencer Ackerman was all up on this, last [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Oscar</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/27782/defense-spending-as-stimulus-part-deux/comment-page-1#comment-35505</link>
		<dc:creator>Oscar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lockheed Martin gave Chambliss $47,100 for last November&#039;s election.  They gave out over $2.5 million to members of congress in 2008.  Lockheed is a monster of a company with net income of over $3 billion.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Over the years, Lockheed has made a fortune tweaking the plans for this uber fighter jet.  However, doing so has made the cost of the F-22 exceptionally high.  While design delays have held-up large scale production of the F-22, a less expensive more advanced replacement has been developed (F-35).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, at this point it&#039;s all about money.  It&#039;s not about need.  It&#039;s not about the economy.  It&#039;s about Loockheed not getting stuck with the development costs.  It&#039;s about Senators like Chambliss who do what Lockheed asks of them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lockheed Martin gave Chambliss $47,100 for last November&#39;s election.  They gave out over $2.5 million to members of congress in 2008.  Lockheed is a monster of a company with net income of over $3 billion.  </p>
<p>Over the years, Lockheed has made a fortune tweaking the plans for this uber fighter jet.  However, doing so has made the cost of the F-22 exceptionally high.  While design delays have held-up large scale production of the F-22, a less expensive more advanced replacement has been developed (F-35).</p>
<p>So, at this point it&#39;s all about money.  It&#39;s not about need.  It&#39;s not about the economy.  It&#39;s about Loockheed not getting stuck with the development costs.  It&#39;s about Senators like Chambliss who do what Lockheed asks of them.</p>
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		<title>By: Oscar</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/27782/defense-spending-as-stimulus-part-deux/comment-page-1#comment-16555</link>
		<dc:creator>Oscar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lockheed Martin gave Chambliss $47,100 for last November&#039;s election.  They gave out over $2.5 million to members of congress in 2008.  Lockheed is a monster of a company with net income of over $3 billion.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Over the years, Lockheed has made a fortune tweaking the plans for this uber fighter jet.  However, doing so has made the cost of the F-22 exceptionally high.  While design delays have held-up large scale production of the F-22, a less expensive more advanced replacement has been developed (F-35).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, at this point it&#039;s all about money.  It&#039;s not about need.  It&#039;s not about the economy.  It&#039;s about Loockheed not getting stuck with the development costs.  It&#039;s about Senators like Chambliss who do what Lockheed asks of them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lockheed Martin gave Chambliss $47,100 for last November&#39;s election.  They gave out over $2.5 million to members of congress in 2008.  Lockheed is a monster of a company with net income of over $3 billion.  </p>
<p>Over the years, Lockheed has made a fortune tweaking the plans for this uber fighter jet.  However, doing so has made the cost of the F-22 exceptionally high.  While design delays have held-up large scale production of the F-22, a less expensive more advanced replacement has been developed (F-35).</p>
<p>So, at this point it&#39;s all about money.  It&#39;s not about need.  It&#39;s not about the economy.  It&#39;s about Loockheed not getting stuck with the development costs.  It&#39;s about Senators like Chambliss who do what Lockheed asks of them.</p>
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		<title>By: Hamma Mirwaisi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hamma Mirwaisi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Appealing to the US government official for Justice&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am a naturalized citizen of the USA. I do understand that the laws are counting me equal with other citizen in the country. But individuals are not counting me as a full citizen.&lt;br&gt;I was trying to serve my country the USA who adopted me during the hardest time of my life with wife and two children’s. While I was searching for job in the Army CI department the people interview; I made me look like Osama bin Laden on his paper work.&lt;br&gt;I was working on the Air force Satellite communications for many years and had security clearance (Secret) and over two years serving military war effort in Iraq. Now they are damaged my security clearance.&lt;br&gt;The US governments are accusing me to not be good citizen. I went to senator and Congress men; I am told every thing are fine but when I look for Job there are note on my interim security clearance will chase away hiring companies to consider me for the Job for over one year now.&lt;br&gt;There are no other agencies to go too. The US governments are treating me very bad; I do need help please.&lt;br&gt;I did write “Policy-designate Michele Flournoy” and asked her to hire me. I am originally from Iraq and lived in Iran’s too. I do understand the culture, religions, political structures inside out about both countries above and want to help her department but there are no way to reach these people in power.&lt;br&gt;I am writing this and hope that she and others will read my comment and start counting people like me as a citizen. I am the “naturalized citizens” and want the US Government to count me as a full citizen of the USA and give me the chance to serve in this hard time.&lt;br&gt;I hope she or her subordinate or some other people in the State department or department of defense will read this advertising of myself and will send me an email to offer me a job so I can serve my country the USA.&lt;br&gt;Thanks for any help you might provide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Regards,&lt;br&gt;Hamma Mirwaisi&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:hmirwaisi@gmail.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hmirwaisi@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jan-28-2009</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Appealing to the US government official for Justice</p>
<p>I am a naturalized citizen of the USA. I do understand that the laws are counting me equal with other citizen in the country. But individuals are not counting me as a full citizen.<br />I was trying to serve my country the USA who adopted me during the hardest time of my life with wife and two children’s. While I was searching for job in the Army CI department the people interview; I made me look like Osama bin Laden on his paper work.<br />I was working on the Air force Satellite communications for many years and had security clearance (Secret) and over two years serving military war effort in Iraq. Now they are damaged my security clearance.<br />The US governments are accusing me to not be good citizen. I went to senator and Congress men; I am told every thing are fine but when I look for Job there are note on my interim security clearance will chase away hiring companies to consider me for the Job for over one year now.<br />There are no other agencies to go too. The US governments are treating me very bad; I do need help please.<br />I did write “Policy-designate Michele Flournoy” and asked her to hire me. I am originally from Iraq and lived in Iran’s too. I do understand the culture, religions, political structures inside out about both countries above and want to help her department but there are no way to reach these people in power.<br />I am writing this and hope that she and others will read my comment and start counting people like me as a citizen. I am the “naturalized citizens” and want the US Government to count me as a full citizen of the USA and give me the chance to serve in this hard time.<br />I hope she or her subordinate or some other people in the State department or department of defense will read this advertising of myself and will send me an email to offer me a job so I can serve my country the USA.<br />Thanks for any help you might provide.</p>
<p>Regards,<br />Hamma Mirwaisi<br /><a href="mailto:hmirwaisi@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">hmirwaisi@gmail.com</a><br />Jan-28-2009</p>
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		<title>By: Dick Hertz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dick Hertz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is called &quot;military Keynesianism&quot; and it is one of the GOP&#039;s biggest tricks since Nixon and certainly Reagan used it heavily.  Something to consider as Boeing considers canning ten thousand workers, and other high tech and technoindustrial segment employers are in the same boat.  And these are good paying Union jobs, whether it is SPEEA or Chemicals or Machinists and even Longshoremen, as large components of aircraft are built overseas and shipped to Seattle or Wichita for assembly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is called &#8220;military Keynesianism&#8221; and it is one of the GOP&#39;s biggest tricks since Nixon and certainly Reagan used it heavily.  Something to consider as Boeing considers canning ten thousand workers, and other high tech and technoindustrial segment employers are in the same boat.  And these are good paying Union jobs, whether it is SPEEA or Chemicals or Machinists and even Longshoremen, as large components of aircraft are built overseas and shipped to Seattle or Wichita for assembly.</p>
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