LM is not going to get anything from Washington even if the GOP manages to pull a rabbit out of the hat. Obama doesn’t want to create jobs at LM. He wants to create jobs at Solyndra.
Oddly enough, the defense industry is the location of the last productive union workers, and many will be among the 12,000.
We have to cut defense spending, but I hope we can keep up research and development, and most procurement. We need to be cutting the size of the troop levels and the number of overseas engagements first.