The nerve of some corporations

MANIFESTO

I nearly drove off the road this morning when I heard a commercial sponsored by GE, asking me to contact my representatives in Washington in support of the company's F136 jet engine program.

GE, a monopolistic monster if ever there was one, is concerned that, otherwise,

Congress would be handing a $100 billion sole-source monopoly to a single contractor with $2.6 billion in cost overruns already.

Apparently the $183 billion in revenue and the $17 billion dollars in profits the company garnered last year aren't enough, and so it needs to recruit citizen lobbyists to add to those numbers.