[dervish]

Actually I read your post(s) and was apalled to see that you consider government contracts to Boeing the same as subsidies to Airbus.

No amount of studying on my part will fix that logic of yours.

The US would be thrilled if the French and/or Europe were to buy military hardware from Airbus to beef up their contribution to NATO.

[Destro]

Actually I read your post(s) and was apalled to see that you consider government contracts to Boeing the same as subsidies to Airbus.

I am apalled at your ability to misread things. By the way I was talking about indirect subsidies that goes into some industries due to our military industrial complex. Be that as it may you again prove my point.

[Destro]

Point/Counterpoint: Boeing’s fears that it would be left in Airbus’s wake also prompted it to attack on another front. In October, America made a formal complaint to the World Trade Organisation alleging the payment of billions of dollars of “unfair” subsidies to Airbus. Boeing claims that “launch aid” has enabled Airbus to roll out five new products in the past ten years while it has managed just one. Like Airbus’s rapid response to the Dreamliner, the European Union immediately said that it would file a counter-claim over large sums of aid going to Boeing through indirect government subsidies from its relationship with NASA and the Pentagon. This week, the EU said that it was ready to compromise to resolve the dispute and both sides agreed to suspend hostilities (and subsidies) for three months of negotiations.