This just in at the news room. Aircraft production waving goodbye to S. California Excerpted line: At another sprawling complex nearby, thousands of workers still produce the Boeing C-17 military cargo plane. However, there are no new orders for the aircraft in the proposed Defense Department budget. If congressional efforts to restore the program fail, the last of those flying warehouses will be delivered in 2008, and all airplane production would end in California — once the center of commercial and military airplane construction in the nation.
Another defense manufacturing facility shuttered under the GOP.
Do you have a reason to buy more C-17's, or are you just interested in the GOP funding make-work defense pork?
The original contract for for these planes was completed in 2004, and they bought some more after that. Exactly when should a program end? Only after it ends?