Many threads and no answers. What are they thinking, if anything?
1. EADS/Northrup is going to produce a better product for the price the U.S. government is going to pay.
2. See #1.
What are they thinking, if anything?
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It looks like they are not thinking! Or if they are, their thinking doesn’t seem to be oriented in a direction that could be called “Patriotic!” Sue Payton sounds like nothing more than a “politically correct” bureaucrat who is either buying into the socialist E.U. “globalist economy” mantra herself or is parroting the E.U. mantra of some of her masters in the Pentagon.
One thing I am thinking about is this. What will become of the Department of Defense Quality Assurance inspectors whose job has traditionally been to see to it that manufacturers of military equipment are manufacturing said equipment according to government specifications spelled out in the defense contract. Is the Department of Defense going to be further downsized? Who is going to be watching Northrup EADS? If there are tanker manufacturing problems similar to the ones that delayed delivery of the civilian Airbus A380, what then? Can we put the war on pause until Northrup EADS is ready to deliver? Inquiring taxpayers want to know.
I think that we the taxpayers had better start hollering about this one!
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.