[Future Useless Eater]

>>Hawker Beechcraft was eliminated in favor of a Brazilian manufacturer? Wow. And the Keystone pipeline was nixed, meanwhile Obama bankrolls Brazilian explorations and says "we will be your best customer".

Goodbye North Dakota and Kansas, hello Rio. Obama has a funny way of focusing on jobs in the US.

From Wikipedia... Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (of Kansas) is an aerospace manufacturing company that builds the Beechcraft and Hawker business jet lines of aircraft.

But I'm sure its all a coincidence...

Its a coincidence that Soros was invested in Brazilian Petrobras at a time when we shut down our Gulf drilling and those oil drilling rigs needed to go elsewhere.

Its a coincidence that the US taxpayer happened to fund Brazilian offshore oil drilling at the same time

Its a coincidence that Soros is invested in Brazilian Embraer (the only other bidder on that contract)

Its a coincidence that the American contract for these 20 "LIGHT AIR SUPPORT" planes was written with hurried 'timeline' rules that force out American competition. (we've apparently never heard of loaning some of our older planes to Afghanistan in the meantime. And doesn't Britian also have a lot of existing planes they cant afford to keep flying?)

Its a coincidence that Kansas is in the heart of RED state country.

Its a coincidence that our pres__ent recently indicated that corporate jets are a sign of greed, and proposed tax changes that would negatively impact the entire general aviation industry.

Its just a coincidence that at an aviation convention LAST MONTH, Hawker Beechcraft chairman Bill Boisture Jr., shocked colleagues with his verbal attacks on U.S. President Barack Obama for allegedly "killing U.S. jobs" by asking the industry to pay a $100-per flight user fee.

BTW, I don't believe in coincidences.

There are 46 used Hawker aircraft for sale on THIS page alone. It seems like the US could have somehow found 20 'light air support' planes for Afghanistan, short of funding Brazil with US tax dollars and shifting our war-readiness manufacturing to foreign lands.


I think this IS also partly a punishment for RED states, (along with his stopping the Keystone pipeline decision). Just look at the dotted blue line in THIS MAP, and note which states the expansion of that existing pipeline will serve most. Illinois already gets the lion's share of the Canadian oil sands crude, so it now has an economic advantage over other states in the region. The blue dotted line expansion of the pipeline will serve red states more than blue, and he KNOWS it.

...hmm, I wonder if we are going to borrow the money from Brazil, to pay Brazil to manufacture 20 planes, to give to Afghanistan? Is our country so insolvent we have to resort to that kind of crap? If these jobs went to Kansas, the US would have to borrow from Brazil to pay Kansas. (I smell economic blackmail)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Excellent restatement of facts and good opinion. Makes a lot of sense.

[lbryce]

Just checked out your homepage feeling humbled.

WOW!

Impressive, most impressive.

And here I thought I was doing God's work with my feeble little tag line.

[GeronL]

Maybe they weren’t unionized enough? /sarc

[Oztrich Boy]

Its a coincidence that Soros is invested in Brazilian Embraer (the only other bidder on that contract)

He's not.

He's invested in Harbin-Embraer, that's Chinese Embraer, a Chinese firm set to to build Embraer EMB-145 Regional Jests, In China.

Its a coincidence that the American contract for these 20 "LIGHT AIR SUPPORT" planes was written with hurried 'timeline' rules that force out American competition.

The US Navy has wanted these aircraft for OPERATIONS in Afghanistan for 2½ years. It was the Congresscritters who turned it into a makework project for their state. (The Navy progam was known as Imminent Fury - I guess the big word was too hard for the congresscritters to understand)

There are 46 used Hawker aircraft for sale on THIS page alone

Now you've achieved an OWSer level stupidity

Those aircraft are Hawker 800s: executive jets

What the military wanted was a light bomb truck

A-29 Super Tucano: In production, In Service, In Combat

What the congresscritters are pushing is

Hawker Beechcraft AT-6B: Brochureware, in development

And it's not as good a design as the A-29. For one thing, it's shorter. Not a problem in flying training. But hang stuff beneath the wings, and directional instability problems mainfest

[LucyT]

. . . . Article and # 22 , including graphic.

[Thanks Future.]

[editor-surveyor]

Yes, its all pure coincidence...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FUE.