[Still Thinking]

Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, said Boeing can't act like British colonialists extracting wealth from other countries and exporting it all back home. Mulally, speaking to The News Tribune editorial board, said that with 70 percent of Boeing's commercial airplanes sold to airlines operating outside the United States, Boeing has an obligation to build parts of its aircraft overseas. "We just operate everywhere," he said. "We need to include everybody around the world in the asset utilization. They buy our products and pay up. We can't just extract wealth from other countries and pay ourselves.

If the foreign airplane buyers didn't think the value of the airplane was at least as great as the price being asked, they wouldn't buy them in the first place. Boeing's doesn't OWE them something in exchange for the sale. That's where the airplane comes in.

So how many demonstrations has this yokel been in protesting the low US content of Korean cars? Isn't it unfair for them merely to sell us the product without feeling obligated to use US parts??

[Dead Dog]

So how many demonstrations has this yokel been in protesting the low US content of Korean cars? Isn't it unfair for them merely to sell us the product without feeling obligated to use US parts??

They are just making excuses for outsourcing, trying to make a moral highground. I doubt this is intellectually honost.