Union boss to general: Go to France

Please people, suck it up.
If you knew how much manufacturing Boeing subcontracts out to foreign countries, you'd be ashamed of Boeing too.
Haven't heard a word about Boeing offloading existing work out of the country. Please refer to Boeings " Lean Manufacturing " with their Dreamliner.

We have used foreign designed aircraft before.
1. The Hawker Harrier
2. The Canberra Bomber (Became the U2)

We are in a globalized economy. If Northrop/Airbus makes sense, do it.

Where was Dick when steel, textiles, electronics, autos were going down the tubes.
Retrain for the service economy. It's what Reagan wanted.
(Please note; this post filled with sardonic/ironic intent.)

The union guy is correct. We taxpayers should overpay for the tankers in order to subsidize overpaid union workers.

The Union is telling US taxpayers to "Go to Hell". Not exactly patriotic, is it?

General Lichte must be looking for early retirement for supporting France.

Richard M.
This is the final fruition of Reaganonmics.

How did you vote in '80??

NAFTA and the global free market were his and Pappy's idea.

Free Market = Oligarchy Free to Manipulate Market.

America, you bought it, now you can enjoy it.

How we got here;

OK, after some reflection, here is a posit.
This is for the younger free marketeers. Just some old info.

Sometime around 30 years ago a segment of America stopped voting their interest and started voting on emotion.

They hated the flag burners, dope smokers, queer liberals, welfare queens, outside agitators, communist union folk, etc., and started voting against their own economic interests based on fear.

The economic Republicans new these people were not the sharpest tools in the shed and could reap their votes.

And here we are today. Tankers built in France, $8.50 an hour at Landfill-Mart with no medical, unnecessary war in Iraq and McBush wants your Social Security.

America, put on your thinking cap.

correction; 'knew'

I love it. On one hand, the Left whines about jobs going overseas. Then when a job is awarded to a foreign government, many of those same Lefties are rejoiceful.

And then we have the usual nonsensical gibberish from C Morris.

I disagree with the Air Force on this. Boeing, a U.S. company, should have gotten the job. But then the Left hates Boeing just as much as it does Halliburton. In fact, the Left hates ALL American companies and Americans.

Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb bomb Air Bus???

http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/8187.html

http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/02/john_mccain_sho.php

John D,

French Mime! Back to your invisible box! Learn from Bushman; He make more sense.

C. Morris,

Truer words were never spoke.

Remember Lee Atwater's race baiting Willie Horton ad? Atwater's protege - Karl Rove - who did what he did to John and Cindy McCain in South Carolina during the 2000 race when they were adopting a baby from Bangladesh?

Now John McCain accepts campaign contributions from Karl Rove. There's a word for that.

JohnD how can you side with the commie union?!? You are still my man but I have to wander.

I love it. On one hand, the Left whines about jobs going overseas. Then when a job is awarded to a foreign government, many of those same Lefties are rejoiceful.

Posted by: John D

John D,

What the hell are you yapping about?

It is the RIGHT that hates unions and hates jobs for Americans.

The LEFT has always been loyal to unions and jobs for Americans first. The RIGHT has only concerned itself with the stock market and finding the possible lowest wages and taxes possible.

Well, now our tax dollars are going overseas to pay for the defense of guess who? The interests of the Right.

So stop your yapping, you fool.

Wake up everybody the euro is at usd 1.50 so General keep on doing stupid things like giving billions of taxpayer dollars to the Europeans. Be a patriot !!!

Despite unions becoming more and more irrelevant, my sentiments are with Boeing on this one. There needs to be some sense of national loyalty when it comes to dishing out contracts of this magnitude.

Darned union workers, wanting decent pay, safe workplaces and healthcare. They should all be happy yo work 10 hour days six days a week at starvation wages like the good ole' days! Unions are destroying this nation by letting workers think they actually have value, when right thinking people know that workers are commodities to be used up and discarded.

To Republican Plutocrat:
I know its tough for you to imagine, but your little rhetoric is simply fear mongering (I thought only conservatives did that!!!). In an environment where jobs are prevelant and qualified workers are a hot commodity, it is in the firm's best interest to take care of their employees at a market driven rate. Without their most valuable resource, they will suffer and they know this. back in an era when labor standards did not exist, employees needed a union to survive their day at work and feed their family, but now that the environment in our country is much more secure and supply & demand is in effect, unions have become an irrelevant burden to the free market.

I don't think anyone in this blog was privy to the bidding on this contract, so most of these posts are pure conjecture. I'll throw in my own. By complaining that Airbus is getting subsidies, Boeing is basically admitting that they were outbid. Still, I don't like the thought of Frenchie making our warplanes. On the other hand, there are really only two companies that could handle this type of contract, and if Airbus were taken out of the bidding, Boeing would have a monopoly which would be good for no one (except them).

C. Morris, your post is both vague and ridiculous. It's amusing watching you take every blog subject and use some loopy analysis to try to blame it on Republicans. Now planes being built in France is the fault of Republicans. OK. Get a life.

Steve, my point exactly. Those workers are all making to0 much! they should be poorer. They should get less, so I can get more! That's the burden the unions place on the economy, right?

Heck, that's why I love to hire those illegals. I don't have to pay them hardly anything.

Divide and Conquer!

The Boeing plane is superior. It allows the pilot to overide the computer in situations where the plane needs to exceed certain parameters. I trust our pilots more than the Airbus computer! Northup and Airbus are already contradicting themselves on the jobs in America and the French are complaining they will loose jobs. Just waiting for the labor strike to start in France. Bad Decision!

Absolutely, shouldn't the government always be looking for how its acquisitions could benefit the largest number of Americans, whether they be flying the plane or building it. Boeing's plane would have put thousands of American men and women to work, far more that the EADS plane. But the Air Force said to hell with them, Michalski was right. Lichte should quit, then maybe one more of those out-of-work union guys could find a job.

In fact, the Left hates ALL American companies and Americans.

Posted by: John D | March 3, 2008 8:56 PM

Read your statement you mental defective.

Wow. John D you're a nut!!!