Bob Filner: “Then those defense firms bill the Pentagon for savings that have come out and they get big grants for the savings that…”

“Then those defense firms bill the Pentagon for savings that have come out and they get big grants for the savings that occurred in that consolidation, their corporate executives get major bonuses, and the people in San Diego or other communities have lost their jobs and no job training funds and no impact on community funds have come back to our community. So again, you have been emphasizing that. We as a Congress have got not only to plug those corporate welfare loopholes but to make sure that the people, the working people who fought that cold war, who fought and in a sense won it, are now losing their jobs as this consolidation occurs, and our own Defense Department is rewarding those firms for laying off those workers. That is what we have to change too. So again I appreciate your efforts and we are going to keep working with you on that.”