Yellowhair148

Boeing Cleared for Takeoff

Let's start by looking what our friends (EADS & EU) have done for the U.S. lately:
The French & German governments used their VETO power in NATO to stop Boeing from selling C-17's to the peace keeping forces because they are selling NATO A400M's.

Speaking of A400M's. Pratt & Whitney won a fair competition to build the engines for that airframe. The French government stepped in and said OH NO those engines WILL be built by a French Company leading to a 2 year delay and stripping P&W from a lucrative contract.

When Airbus was going to sell 6 of their factories the EU stepped in and stopped Spirit AeroSystems from being able to purchase any of those factories. They want them sold to European companies.

Where will the profits go? That's right Europe. Where will the technology transfer go to? That's right Europe. Those barrel sections will be stuffed with everything that was done in- that right Europe. The politicians have put a nice bow on this package but the truth is if the mount of USA JOBS was real EADS would not be talking about moving work out of the EURO-ZONE!!!!!!!!!!


CAN YOU SAY PROTECTIONISM!!!!!!!!!...

Now it is time to look into the politics that involved EADS and their partner by name only Northrup Grumman and the gift that was given to them.

Mr. McCain did not want to allow the subsidy decision or risk of that decision to be mentioned. They are already subsized by their government in the for of non-repayable loans if the plane doesn't make a profit (can you say A380 it will take@ 400 planes to be profitable. With less than 200 planes on order I do't see this loan being repayed. The same can be said of the A340-500 & -600. Nothing like free money.

This is a company from Europe, yes there will be a final assembly plant in Alabama (and Alabama workers have proved to be a skilled workforce) but just how much work will be done there. They state that there will be 1000 jobs for the Tanker & 300 jobs for the freighter. The rest of the jobs that they tout are already in the supplier base and will not create NEW JOBS just sustain old ones.

We talk about the scandal from the original tanker deal. The people that were involved in that went to prison and the CEO resigned. In this scandal we have John "Anti-Boeing" McCain making phone calls and sending e-mails so that the requirements for the KC-X will be changed to allow EADS to bid. Let's not talk about the 4 staffers that worked for companies that lobbied the Senate, Congress and Pentagon on EADS behalf. These people lobbied for EADS and are currently on McCain's Presidential Election staff. His finance chairman is still working for the lobby company that is lobbying for EADS AND working for McCain at the same time. No conflict there!!!!

McCain brags on the campaign trail how he saved the taxpayers billions of dollars. I don't see it and he isn't showing any true numbers. The original deal was 100 tankers for 20 billion dollars. That works out to 200 million a copy. The new deal is 179 tankers for 40 billion. That works out to 223 million a copy. I see a 10% increase in the cost. In the original deal our warfighters would already be getting some of those planes. Who knows when they will get them under the new deal

McCain has been extremely negative about letting the Air Force buy more C-17's when the military truly needs them. Our troops will wait for a C-17 to be available rather than use a C-5 because they are unreliable. The Air Force has to have 2 C-5's available for any one mission because of reliability The Air force has to make sure that they can do what's necessary. Putting new engines on the old warhorses is not the solution. Making the best of the C-5's airworthy and buying NEW C-17's is the only reasonable answer. Even the C-17's have more hours on them than they were suppose to at this time in their life span and some of them should be replaced. If we shut down the C-17 line in Long Beach and find out that we do need more airlift who are we going to have build them? The French? We must keep this line alive!!!!!!

How do you reward the EU for all their protectionism and down right dislike for the USA??????????

GIVE THEM A 40 BILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT............TH... HOW

A country that doesn't produce/manufacture durable goods ........
WELL IT JUST CANNOT EXIST

Where will the profits go? That's right Europe. Where will the technology transfer go to? That's right Europe. Those barrel sections will be stuffed with everything that was done in- that right Europe. The politicians have put a nice bow on this package but the truth is if the mount of USA JOBS was real EADS would not be talking about moving work out of the EURO-ZONE!!!!!!!!!!