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When Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited China in January, the Chinese military made a very public test flight of its previously secret J-20 Stealth fighter.

"A lot of people saw that as a military threat," Albaugh said. "I didn't. I saw it more as an economic threat....

It is both.

My prediction is that the Chinese will walk on the moon before we launch an American into orbit again in a U.S. spacecraft."

This is the change guys.

1 posted on 06/13/2011 2:08:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Intellectual disarmament is a direct result of moral disarmament. ;-/


2 posted on 06/13/2011 2:39:51 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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The Chinese are discovering Capitalism while our leaders are taking us into the dark ages of Socialism through the exploitation of our education system and robbery of our citizens in order to redistribute the wealth into a black hole. Unions do not dictate China’s economic policies as they do her. They also are not going bankrupt.


3 posted on 06/13/2011 2:40:06 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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From the ‘intellectuals’ at Harvard to Section 8 housing, philosophically there isn’t much difference. They’ll never understand American Exceptionalism. Oh how I hate this pres-ent and his kind.


4 posted on 06/13/2011 2:50:02 AM PDT by Track9 (Make War!!)
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Quite sobering but not surprising, since the World Community Organizer-In-Chief has all but designated NASA as a Muslim outreach center.


6 posted on 06/13/2011 2:55:16 AM PDT by drierice
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...[Jim Albaugh] ticked off a list of broad national problems that transcend Boeing: • Brain drain of talented immigrants:...."Now, the best and brightest come to the United States, get trained, and leave, and go back and compete against us."

This is simply the biggest pile of horse manure that has ever been put in front of the American Public. I'm getting sick and tired of seeing many in the technology sector complaining about brain drain. The only brains that are draining are their own.

We don't need these huge pools of talented immigrants. These companies want cheap labor, plain and simple. They are laying off talented American and hiring cheap pools of immigrants. This is despicable. It's the biggest myth around that we don't have enough American to fill these jobs. Total Garbage. And a huge amount of national security secrets go out the door with these huge pool of immigrant engineers and scientists. The Chinese are the absolute worst at this. You cannot go for a month without reading about a case of Chinese espionage committed by one of these immigrants Albaugh loves so much. This Albaugh fellow is one of a new class of person I now call post-American.
7 posted on 06/13/2011 2:58:56 AM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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There is no one whose a** we can’t kick if we quit trying to commit national suicide. This, however, won’t always be true it we get too far away from what our strengths are.

People need to remember why we have locks on our doors. Unfortunately we don’t live in an altruistic world, and others will take what we have if we let them. I trust us, as a nation, to be fair and charitable to the world. I don’t trust the world to be that way toward us. If we fall, they won’t pick us up.


13 posted on 06/13/2011 3:34:25 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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like no one saw this coming, except those in the field...

and the members of congress.

why do i say congress? i know for a fact that this exact scenario was laid out in 1998 when the H1-b bill was passed. it was laid out to members of 5 different congressional offices by at least one person.

me

they knew this was coming.
they knew the obvious impact.
they didn’t care and continue to work against the best interests of Americans.

why is it we’re not able to hold them liable for damages done? since when did they become above the law?


14 posted on 06/13/2011 3:59:14 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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He lamented the U.S. government's withdrawal from space exploration as the space-shuttle program winds down

That's probably the only sensible thing this gov't. has done. He's upset that his company won't as easily get the plum space contracts. He'll have to compete with smaller, less-expensive firms.

17 posted on 06/13/2011 4:47:02 AM PDT by BfloGuy (Money, like chocolate on a hot oven, was melting in the pockets of the people.)
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Engineering pay for the most part is terrible. Engineering, especially aerospace engineering, is one of the most difficult, technically challenging,time consuming professions there are.
But the pay is substantially less than other professional occupations like doctor or lawyer.
Up the pay and you'll have no problem attracting engineers.
18 posted on 06/13/2011 4:52:44 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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There are no [all-new] airplanes being developed for the Department of Defense probably for the first time in 100 years."

I don't believe that one at all. It probably applies to white-world, manned aircraft programs, and is therefore cheap spin.

He makes good points, otherwise.
23 posted on 06/13/2011 5:30:21 AM PDT by tanknetter
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We’ve got an intellectly disarmed president. Whadda ya expect?

Real education, as opposed to union sanctioned daycare, makes some kids feel bad. So kids graduate from college who cannot read and we are surprised the Chinese are eating our lunch?


27 posted on 06/13/2011 5:51:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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Hey Albaugh:

Remember all the cost savings from firing rightsizing outsourcing offshoring all those jobs belonging to middle-aged white males?

Guess what.

They went and told their kids, don't bother with science or technology: you'll have to study too hard in school for maybe a ten-year career, having to retire when you're forty, forty-five, tops.

And the Universities took the hint and accepted mainly womyn into Greivance Studies programs; allowing mainly foreigners into the STEM classes in the sacred name of "Diversity." White males need not apply.

You and the entire cadre of C-level executives starting from the mid-eighties should be hung and your families' wealth confiscated. Your wives and children should be sentenced to begging scraps for a living.

It's what you did to an entire generation of white male US citizens.

And now you have the nerve to look surprised.

Cheers!

28 posted on 06/13/2011 5:56:52 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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"Wait - would you rather live in the ascendancy of a civilization or during its decline?"


32 posted on 06/13/2011 6:50:00 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Heh, heh. Intellectual disarmament. I gotta remember that one.


34 posted on 06/13/2011 6:52:26 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Aside from Indians, who do have a democratic country with a rapidly expanding economy to go back to, I don’t know of too many high-tech immigrants who wish to go back to their home countries.


35 posted on 06/13/2011 6:59:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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