Posted on 02/29/2008 7:10:19 PM PST by Plane_Guy
I agree your last two posts were understatements for your position.
All you have left are ad hominems.
If this was so important...why didn’t congress simply make a law that it had to be US-manufactured. They didn’t. So we need to just accept this fact and move on.
We could have made this easy...only a US company could bid...and it didn’t matter if the plane could fly or not...as long as US jobs were preserved.
I tell you most folks down here are celebrating. I was at Bonefish with my parents yesterday when the press conference came on and every TV in the bar area was turned to it. It’s a big deal for us - tons of new jobs and according to the paper this morning the average wage will be $65K....and yes, we are a part of the good old US of A!!!
That’s the way it should be. The goal of purchases by the military, the goal of ALL purchases by EVERYBODY really when you get down to it, is get the job done. The military does enough for the civilian population by protecting us from our enemies, if the civilian population can’t manage to supply the equipment the military needs then that’s the civilian population’s fault, not the military.
Maybe Senator Kay Baily Hutchison can kill this contract in the middle of the night like she gutted our border fence.
Or does she only do that kind of work for Mexico?
Like you should talk Mr. “allah bama”
From what I've read, the Boeing tanker was $35 million a copy cheaper, but the Airbus handles more fuel or cargo depending on configuration.
In response to you well thought out post.
Is this the same Boeing tanker that McCain is always bragging about stopping to save the taxpayers money? In all the debates right after he took sole credit for the “surge” he would tell us all how he saved billions of dollars by stopping Boeing from getting a contract to build a new tanker for the Air Force.
If it is it seems like all he has done is stopped an American company who hires American worker from getting a contract to build a new Tanker. Was Boeing not hiring enough illegals to make him happy?
I guess in McCain’s mind it is just allowing Europeans to build the tankers Americans won’t build.
Airbus, Airbus, AIRBUS! Northrop is NOT making an airframe, Airbus is!
Now if Northrop were producing the airframe (which they certainly have the ability to do), I would have no problem with it.
I figure the only reason Northrop is involved is to put an American face on a major DoD contract going to a foreign source.
Better product at lower price helps ALL Americans with regard to defense of the country and helps all taxpayers by reducing our taxes. Boeing should have proposed a better product.
The government should never contract out military equipment contracts to foreign companies. All military equipment should be purchased from American companies using American workers. That is how you maintain a strong industrial/engineering sector in the country. I don’t believe in government make work projects, but this is a totally different thing.
The airframe is an Airbus unit built in Europe.
It’s truly obvious you haven’t been listening to his speeches. He stated that he will cut everything related to the military. The main reason why the military is understaffed and under-equipped now is due to the Clinton administration making severe cuts in the military budgets. The Reagan and Bush administrations have been the only two in the past 40 years to increase military budgets, military pay, and other pertinent budgets.
‘Clinton administration making severe cuts in the military budgets’
Once again, creating a nice myth. Who was in charge of Congress during the Clinton Admin? Who funds the budget? Come on, it was also the Repubs fault.
Boeing came in with a lower bid...
I agree.
Pure capitalism is no more successful than pure communism. the cheapness of a product should not be the only criteria in any business deal.
The French, are not exactly the best of friends.....what happens if they decide to hold back spare parts, during a conflict, because don’t agree....
Also, two weeks ago General Motors began hiring new workers at $14.00 per hour and no benefits. Also, a parts plant went on strike when their company insisted on 65 % pay cuts last week. I know this because the Janesville GM plant may not run this week because there will be no parts. The union is beaten-God help us. Who will pay for the unemployment, health benefits etc for the newly poor I wonder-of course the American tax payer.
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