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It's 2:30 a.m. – do you know where your $2 billion is?

By budrocket - Jun 23rd, 2009 at 12:33 pm EDT

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Unless we stop it, Congress could vote as soon as TOMORROW to spend more than $2 billion of your money on a fighter jet that even the Pentagon doesn't want. President Obama called for an end to 'weapons as usual' contracting at the Pentagon - including ending production of the F-22 fighter jet. But in a 2:30 a.m. vote, the weapons contractors were able to get enough Republican and Blue-Dog Democrat votes to slip it back in.(1)

Congressman Barney Frank is leading the fight for Obama's Pentagon budget, but the showdown is now and he doesn't have the votes yet. Call your member of Congress right now and tell him or her to cut these wasteful warplanes.

http://www.truemajority.org/callin/index.php?district=VA09&callid=4&email=budrocket1@prodigy.net

You've probably heard about the F-22 before. Designed to fight the next generation of Soviet airplanes in a war that never happened, it has never been flown in combat and has never been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.(2) And at a cost of $351 million per plane we simply can't afford this kind of pork-barrel spending.(3)

We need the money to repair our crumbling schools and put people to work building a green-energy economy. But we can't shift our priorities unless we first stop pouring money into useless weapons projects like the F-22.

We're working with people like Vote Vets, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, and others to cut these needless warplanes.4 These allies give us a chance to win, but they're counting on us to deliver a grassroots call for change that Congress can't ignore. Call right now and tell Congress to get with the program and start investing in True Security for America.

- Darcy
Darcy Scott Martin
TrueMajority / USAction

1 - nytimes.com/2009/06/20/opinion/20sat2.html?_r=1
2 - huffingtonpost.com/jon-soltz/will-congress-put-useless_b_218853.html
3 - armscontrolcenter.org/policy/securityspending/articles/022609_fy10_topline_systems_to_watch/
4 - truesecurity.usaction.org/f22letter.pdf

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