“I am so furious about this that I may not vote for any Repubs this year.”
You probably don’t vote Republican anyways.
By the way, I have voted straight ticket Repub for many years. I am a conservative and actually support fair trade. Other countries must stop closing markets to us if they want to continue to trade. America is the only market that is wide open.
It might interest you to know that the US is suing EADS in the WTO courts right now because they are subsidized by their government. So on the one hand they say Boeing can’t compete against EADS in terms of this contract, and on the other hand (law suit) they say EADS has an unfair advantage-quite typical free trade double talk.
You probably don’t believe a lawsuit exist, thus see below:
‘EADS is currently the subject of a lawsuit over claims it received $100 million in subsidies that allowed it to undercut its American rivals on large contracts.’
Do you think it is fair that foreign companies receive subsidies-including Japanese automakers while American business receives nothing but attacks and regulation? You have no sense of fair play.