Quote: Those who favored the sale pointed to the ancillary deal the PRC dangled in front of McDonnell Douglas to purchase more than $1 billion worth of aircraft.
Pure unadultrated greed.
BTW: have not read a single "die union die" "union thugs" comment yet on this thread.
And still 2 years later Magnequench has gotten not one order from the defense industry for JDAM packages. The Japanese, US and Brits are the only ones who can supply the necessary magnets for the DOD now.
I'd be more angry with environmentalists who won't allow the mining necassary in the US for the extraction of rare earth magnets...