if there's a connection.....

Representative Sherry Boehlert, a Republican from New York, had originally spoken out against privatizing social security. Then, the Lockheed Martin facility in Owego, NY gets the $1.7 billion contract to build newer and better version of Marine 1, the helicopter President Bush flys in. Rep. Boehlert has since decided that the privatization issue needs a closer look.

Does anybody smell a rat? How many others will be bought and at what price?

There is an Air Force base in Jacksonville, Arkansas that is a training center for C-130 cargo planes. There is always talk (threats?) of moving the training mission elsewhere and closing the base. Arkansas has two Democratic Senators and three Democratic Representives, including the Rep. in whose district the air base lies. All have spoken recently against privatization. I wonder if they're willing to sell out SS in an effort to keep the C-130s in Arkansas.

The President is in Arkansas this a.m. to hold one of his famous invitation only town meetings to sell the public on his plan. Arkansas was chosen as the site for one of these meetings because of our largely Democratic delegation.


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