Now is the time for people in the United States to contact their congresspersons and senators to get them to bring a screeching halt to the F22 pork barrel project that will cost over a trillion dollars that the US House Armed Services in the dead of the night last Wednesday voted to sneak through and doing so follow the sage advice of Dwight D Eisenhower to "guard against the growth of the military industrial complex. . ." After all Ike cut the Pentagon budget in 1955 and 1960 in the heyday of the Cold War when the USA and its allies faced the East bloc and no harm came to our national security, and today we surely face no such military power. The Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has even said we don't need this F22 project.

People should also urge their senators, if needed, to filibuster against this silly, off the wall pork barrel project. Let's move now to stop this rotten pork barrel project of waste which we can't afford.