“The comparable Boeing airframe will get shut down. It will result in lost jobs on the west coast and it will result in lost income multiplier for the United States because the Boeing airframe had many more components made and assembled in the United States than the Airbus airframe does.”
1.) The 767 line was being shut down anyways in order to build the 787 “Dreamliner”
2.) Boeing said that the employees would be transferred to other production lines within the company IE NO JOBS LOST.
3.) Check your facts since most of Boeing’s parts are made overseas in places like china and are shipped to Boeing for assembly.
4.) Boeing only had 8 companies on board for the tanker program. EADS on the other hand has over 230 AMERICAN companies on the tanker program making items such as the wings, engines, landing gear, refueling equipment, avionics, etc.