Blame Boeing for not being able to offer the better product at the best price.
I thought conservatives don’t believe is welfare. To give Boeing the contract would be the very definition of corporate welfare, i.e. giving money to someone who hasn’t earned it. With the knowledge that in the future they no longer to have earn it an open free competition, but can keep counting on the government gravy train to feed them no matter how poor their quality and their costs.
Hopefully, Boeing learns from this, improve both their cost and their quality, so when the next contract comes they will earn it.
Protectionists policies don’t work, all they do is reward laziness and stupidity, any time those things are rewarded, expect more of it, which will hurt the economy much more in the long run.
Hopefully, Boeing learns from this, improve both their cost and their quality, so when the next contract comes they will earn it.
Protectionists policies don’t work, all they do is reward laziness and stupidity, any time those things are rewarded, expect more of it, which will hurt the economy much more in the long run.
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I understand what you are saying and I basically agree, but I still don’t think this justifies awarding government military contracts to foreign manufacturers controlled by foreign governments - and which are themselves not exactly “squeaky clean.”
To give Boeing the contract would be the very definition of corporate welfare, i.e. giving money to someone who hasn’t earned it.
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Speaking of corporate welfare, there has been an ongoing debate within the World Trade Organization about government subsidized corporations of which EADS/Airbus is one - subsidized by the French government. The French argue that U.S. government contracts are basically the same thing....and in a sense you could argue that they are.
But if Boeing in unsuccesful in appealing the awarding of the contract, EADS will be “double-dipping,” so to speak in terms of being subsidized by the French government AND receiving a government contract from the United States.
How fair is that?