Print ads you probably havent seen

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The Washington Post sometimes has advertisements that make you go WTF? until you realize they are only intended for members of Congress to read. Since the assumption is that congressmen read the newspaper, you put ads in the paper to get their attention.

Today there were a few more ads than usual, probably because of all the budget cuts being proposed right now.

First off is an ad from GE and Rolls Royce, trying to get funding back for a new fighter jet engine they are making. They lost a beauty contest with UTC and its subsidiary Pratt Whitney, to make the engines for the new US jet fighter. Lots of pork barrel politics involved in this one, because even though the Pentagon doesn't want two engines made for this jet, it means jobs in the districts of some on Capitol Hill.

The fine print at the bottom there says basically that if the US government buys two different engines from two different companies, there will be competition and overall costs will be lower. I don't buy it.