Ramses II

Boeing Drags Its Heels on Air Force Bid

There is one important point that is missed in this discussion. We, as a country, cannot expect to remain an independent and secure nation if we continue to farm out our manufacturing, train competing countries all we know, and allow the skills to disappear from the American labor force.

If we were to go to war with China at this point we would would be obliged to humbly ask them for a good price on supplying our military's uniforms to us. We are no longer able to produce our own clothing, military or otherwise. Only a couple of decades ago, textile manufacturers from around the globe were traveling to the southeastern United States to take tours of our then state-of-the-art facilities. Not any more.

Skilled workers such as machinists and tool and die makers will soon be a thing of the past in the US. How is this good policy? We are systematically dismantling and selling the greatest manufacturing industry in the history of humankind.

This will clearly impact national security, but not enough Americans seem to get terribly upset about it. I believe the author of this "piece" (I won't say of what) referred to this as "whining."

This trend is foolish and perhaps even traitorous.

Now there is actually a debate as to whether we will begin to farm out our ability to produce military equipment and airplanes. Dumb, dumb, dumb...