There would have been close to 2000 jobs here in Mobile (which BTW is a part of the US) and 48,000 jobs nationwide. But all one has to remember - Obama, Chicago, Boeing.....welcome to the corrupt Chicago political machine now firmly in place in DC.....
EADS is European owned, thats all I need to know. I don’t doubt that Boeing worked the angle through Chicago. I’m also quite sure that EADS was working their angles.
The Tanker award is a disgrace.
Obama went to Copenhagen in 2009 in a useless attempt to persuade the Olympic Committee to put the 2016 Olympics in Chicago. Before leaving Washington Obama knew Rio de Janeiro was a done deal and he wasn't going to change the Committee's mind. But his bosses in Chicago told him to get his skinny butt on the plane and try anyway no matter how weak and stupid he might look. People in the Chicago political machine had millions to gain by landing the Olympics.
I keep hearing this accusation. It’s time to put up or shut up. 0bama is corrupt and so is Chicago, but that doesn’t automatically mean that this contract award is corrupt. I don’t see American or EU whining over the fact that Russia only awards their military aircraft contracts to 3 companies: Tupolev, Sukhoi, and Mickoyan-Guerevich.
The fact that EADS isn’t going through with a protest should tell you something. They were so blatantly the Air Force’s fair-haired boy last time, to the point that the Air Force ran roughshod over contract law, that Boeing had a rock solid case in their protest and the Air Force made no attempt to contest the GAO’s findings.
To head off your next question: it’s true, I don’t give a fat crap if the EU or the French have a problem with this award. They can go back to France and make A380s, or go to the Jolly Pirate Donuts and take a 4-hour toilet break for all I care.
Instead of whining you should be looking for ways to entice Boeing to build plants in Alabama.