GOP gives shipyard handout for eliminating jobs

Since when do companies get multimillion-dollar taxpayer handouts for eliminating thousands of jobs? Since the Republicans. That's when.

Northrop Grumman is a company that owned a shipyard in Avondale, Louisiana. Recently, as it spun off its shipyard to its Huntington Ingalls division, the company announced it was closing the yard - putting all 5,000 workers out of a job.

Now congressional Republicans have voted to give $310,000,000 in taxpayer dough to this already highly profitable company as a reward for eliminating these jobs. This handout is going through as part of an important defense authorization bill.

What's the Republicans' excuse for this? Who the hell knows? That they'd give a company taxpayer money for eliminating jobs defies any sort of logic, so you'd think they'd come up with some idiotic excuse by now.

Shouldn't Northrop Grumman have to take a drug test before getting this free money?

(Source: http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/05/31/republicans-reward-avondale-owners-for-quitting-on-the-american-worker)