Re: An Airbus Tanker?
Bertie the Bunyip
news:47CAFF46...@hotmail.com:
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> Ed Rasimus wrote:
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>> Billy <B...@BillyJoe.Bob> wrote:
>> >Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
>> >> "Jay Honeck" wrote in
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080301/ap_on_bi_ge/northrop_eads_air_
>> >>> force _tanker
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>> >>> Whooo-weee. The political feathers are gonna fly on *this* one.
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>> >>> Now we're outsourcing the military, too?
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>> >> About time.
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>> >> Bertie
>> >At a time when Americans have few good paying jobs and little
>> >manufacturing, of any sort left, this is a traitorous move.
>> >The Boeing design would help stimulate our economy.
>> >The Boeing design is actually better. Our Military didn't make a
>> >Military decision. A political descision was made to buy the Euro
>> >crap. As the dollar continues, to fall the cost, to us, will go up.
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>> Lets see, we've got engines made in the US, assembly of the airframe
>> in Alabama, and avionics/support systems built by Northrop. Estimates
>> of 25,000 US jobs created by the program....how is that bad?
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>> And, we add a new aircraft manufacturing facility to the US
>> industrial base thereby diversifying our production capability. Throw
>> in an economic binding to a necessary European consortium of allies
>> for a bonus.
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> Ah, a RATIONAL response at last !
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Like you'd know, planespotter.
Bertie