Even Obama doesn’t want to spend money on this

Michael Wade at the Washington Examiner shows Barbara Boxer up as one of our more egregious plunderers.

The Obama administration has repeated its promise to veto any bill purchasing more C-17’s... Nevertheless, Sen. Boxer keeps pushing for the purchase despite the fact that, according to a defense industry insider, the Air Force already has more of the aircraft than it needs

Wade ends with an excellent summary of the problem:

So long as our leaders in Washington continue to spend our money for their own benefit, and that of their friends, we will have ballooning deficits and a decreasingly productive economy. Judging from the growing clamor of voices, such as in the Tea Party movement, the electorate now gets that. Our tax dollars are not for keeping the already powerful entrenched. The real question is, when will Sen. Boxer and her friends in Washington finally figure it out?

Never, I hope. Or at least, not before the election, after which - a consummation devoutly to be wished – it will be completely moot whether she and her friends figure it out or not.