Posted on 03/08/2008 4:24:09 AM PST by tobyhill
Why would they need to be in Mobile?
Mobile?
Dude, what part of "Melbourne Fla." don't you understand?
Sorry. I thought you were implying that they would move... While the Gulf is nice I sure would hate to move from Melbourne to Mobile.
Sorry. I thought you were implying that they would move... While the Gulf is nice I sure would hate to move from Melbourne to Mobile.
I apologize. Now that I look at it again, the words "out of" could have been taken several ways.
I’m very happy for you, I guess.
They just got a little more ammo for the effort. Only hope now is that the NYT made the story up...
“WASHINGTON — A co-chairman of Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign and other top campaign advisers and supporters were lobbyists for the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, part of a group that beat out Boeing for a $35 billion contract to build aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force.”
NGC is claiming that this win will employ 48,000 people in direct and indirect jobs in the United States. This isn't a foreign built aircraft.
Boeing and the Democrats are spinning about 90% lies and 10% truth.
This might even bring some commercial A330 assembly business to the United States, since American labor is cheaper than European, and they are assembling commercial A330s, and then transferring them to a NGC facility to convert them into military tankers.
“In the midst of the firestorm that is the contested U.S. Air Force KC-45 refueling tanker program, the first of the new aircraft has been sent to Germany for its cargo conversion.”
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