{"id":9469,"date":"2011-04-29T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2011-04-29T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:04:28","slug":"fiscal-victory-dod-announces-termination-of-duplicative-f-35-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9469\/fiscal-victory-dod-announces-termination-of-duplicative-f-35-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiscal Victory:  DOD Announces Termination of Duplicative F-35 Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the campaign for America&#8217;s fiscal survival continues, it is important to recognize battle victories along the way.<\/p>\n<p>CFIF has <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8693\/military-engine-few-want-finally-gets-voted-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">participated in the effort<\/a> to stop the duplicative, unnecessary and wasteful second engine for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that refused to die.\u00a0 Pratt &amp; Whitney was awarded production of the F-35 engine,  but  forces in Congress perpetuated the wasteful General Electric\/Rolls-Royce second engine.\u00a0 The Pentagon doesn\u2019t want it.\u00a0 The Senate has voted it down.\u00a0 The  House has voted it down.\u00a0 The Bush White House sought to stop it.\u00a0 The  Obama White House has sought to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the second engine project rambled on at a cost to taxpayers of $1 million per day, because of Beltway pork-barrel political forces and the previous Congress&#8217;s failure to even pass a 2011 budget.<\/p>\n<p>But at long last, the Defense Department this week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=14442\" target=\"_blank\">instructed G.E. and Rolls Royce<\/a> that the second engine contract has been terminated.\u00a0 This is progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the campaign for America&#8217;s fiscal survival continues, it is important to recognize battle victories along the way. CFIF has participated in the effort to stop the duplicative, unnecessary and wasteful second engine for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that refused to die.\u00a0 Pratt &amp; Whitney was awarded production of the F-35 engine, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,84,81,59,2636,2634,2401,2530,24,2635,61],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-duplicative-engine","tag-engine","tag-f-35","tag-joint-strike-fighter","tag-obama","tag-second-engine","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9486,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions\/9486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}