Lynn Malsby

This raises the question, if workers in Lynn could be given new jobs, then who really benefits from building the unneeded jet engines? Read More

First, we had the "Louisiana Purchase for Mary Landrieu's vote on the $900 billion Senate version of the health care bill, then we had Senator Ben Nelson's "Cornhusker Compromise on abortion in exchange for his vote, and now we have the Massachusetts "Big Dig Part II - a $626 billion defense appropriations bill, millions of which will be used to "save jobs at a General Electric plant in Lynn that will make backup jet engines that the Pentagon and defense specialists say are redundant, costly, and will most likely never be used by our military. Read More

In a speech earlier this year calling on Congress to stop funding superfluous defense programs, President Obama specifically cited the program to create an alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet as a classic example of such waste. Read More

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Mr Baukes saw the same product sold at a supermarket here for $16.80. "I said to my wife, have a look at that one," he said. Read More