What would Joe do if Lockheed told him to stuff his vaccines? North American is gone, Grumman is gone, McDonald Douglas is gone, Convair gone, Hughes is gone, Sikorsky gone, Boeing is a wheezer.
Maybe he could contract with China to build our fighters if we would sell them Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, and Westinghouse.
Truly. Big companies like Lockheed do need government contracts, but the government very much needs big companies like Lockheed. If Lockheed were to announce that it would ignore the Mandate, there is no way the government would pull a single contract. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.