I don't know if government's waste of time is more costly than its waste of money, but in Congress waste, fraud, and abuse are the order of the day! Today's Los Angeles Times has a front page article "Struggling to Take Off," in which the STAGGERING COSTS of the delays, manufacturing problems, and cost overruns of the F-35 fighter program are reported. Get this: "The GAO [Government Accountability Office] estimated the program would cost an unprecedented $12.6 billion a year on average through 2037--that's an average of $1.4 million an hour for the next two and a half decades." And this is for an airplane that can't even fly yet!

Why can't every senator and representative in Congress do something about this? The Pentagon needs to be audited, and some accountability needs to be established in the Defense Department. If that amount of money were used to install solar panels on every government building in the nation, we'd save money, create jobs, and solve the climate problem at the same time.

I am so depressed.. I just want something to get accomplished but the dems are just as much to blame with Harry Reid in charge .. when he made the deal with McConnell I knew it was all lost..All the work, all the efforts of so many lost because of the stupid fillibuster that the republicans would never agree to.. The Dems are weak.. Obama frustrates me as well .. Climate change, Keystone pipeline..but this assault on women I know Obama has our back but why do people elect these idiots? Women are NOT going back to the last century and we will not stand for this ridiculous assault on our rights..Women will unite and we will throw these pompous idiots out of office...

Quote SteveS:Get this: "The GAO [Government Accountability Office] estimated the program would cost an unprecedented $12.6 billion a year on average through 2037--that's an average of $1.4 million an hour for the next two and a half decades." And this is for an airplane that can't even fly yet!

Right on steve! We should insist on at least a $500 Billion cut from defense. Leave the VA, The Department of Veteran Affairs alone; but target all foreign bases and no-bid contractor actions. We have no business having military bases in any foreign country that is not attacking us or posing a threat. As far as high tech defense and surveillance is concerned, you can burn these programs as well. The Art and Science of Destruction must cease!

Quote SteveS:The Pentagon needs to be audited, and some accountability needs to be established in the Defense Department. If that amount of money were used to install solar panels on every government building in the nation, we'd save money, create jobs, and solve the climate problem at the same time.

Now that's what I call a brilliant suggestion.

I have heared over and over "assault on women" or "war on women" what exactly is it the Republicans did to assault or war on women.

I didn't give abortion much thought before but I just realized you can have a abortion when the little thing is 6 months old. My daughter in law is about 6 months pregnant right now. Wow I don't know how a women can do it that late. I have always believed it is none of my business but this is hitting pretty close to home.

boxspringm ~ Please don't be depressed! Thats what the 1% wants. Funnel your disappointments into Campaign Finance Reform and Move to Amend. We will all get our chance to vote out the Harry Reids out congress; but until we get meaningful people running for office on an even platform we cannot hope to fix this mess. Let's do what needs to be done one thing at a time. Courage and resolve is all we need. We already have the numbers. We only lack the organization and the commitment.

DAnneMarc. Don't get me wrong i am with you it should be a women's choice. But the little dude is pretty much kicking at the point. Honestly it makes me sick just to think about it. Isn't the assault on the child at that age. I mean i find it hard to believe she couldn't decide to terminate the pregnancy before the third month.

Nobody answered me what are the REPs are doing that you call assault or war. Seriously I don't know.

Kend ~ Very well! 6 months and later I agree. The "parents" have had more than enough time to make a responsible decision by then. It is the desire to take that decision out of the hands of the woman, and father, before 6 months; and, from the time of conception and before that is the assault or war on women. When the Republicans strive to prevent the "morning after pill," publicly funded contraceptives or education, planned parenthood, or 1st to 6 th month abortion is where the war is being fought. Republicans wish to assert their control over the life producing attributes of women. To assert control over the natural bodily functions of anyone is prohibited by the Constitution of the United States, and by human nature. Protection of an egg, sperm, or fetus, which does not draw breath or is by definition entitled to any protection of citizenry under the Constitution is unconstitutional and a blatant disregard of human rights. Henceforth, such efforts and legislation is an assault and declaration of war on the sovereignty of women over their own bodies.

Moreover, this is a war to control the unborn as well. Poor children with no hope to overcome their disadvantages are far better candidates for cannon fodder than well to do children aren't they?

Many people grow up dirt poorNAND live very happy lives while among the wealthy children suffer from neglect. Poverty as areason for abortion is class warfare. The Republicans are no morewasting their timeraising an issue that can't pass the Senate than the Democrats who tried for years to stop the war and raised their voices every nightat the end of the days session to rail against an unjust war. Fetal pain is real, the science is there for anyone who wants to do the research on the web. The real war onwomen are the people who do not support a pregnant women in taking herchild to term and that starts with a culture that pushes abortion on women as she "right thing to do".