Pelosi blames McCain

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I'm confused.  Is she suggesting we should have overspent on the contract just to give it to an American company?  If Boeing can't compete in a free market then they need to go out of buisness (or change their ways).  That's how the market works.  Giving the contract to EADS/NG saves ALL Americans money at the expense of a very small percentage of Americans (those employed by and the stock owners of Boeing).  This is why it's not always a bad thing when the Nike factory moves from Washington state to Vietnam, sure it sucks for the guys that used to make the Nike's, but everybody else gets cheaper Nike's.

[dead0man]

Less than Bush's I think.

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Pelosi is just off her rocker.

It's fashionable to blame foreigners for troubles those days. I suspect a large part of Republicans feel the same as Pelosi on this issue.

Of course.  There are idiots in every political party.

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A dynamic of this we haven't covered yet is that European nations are (in a round-a-bout way) subsidizing USAF aircraft.  Thanks Europe!  You've got a long way to go before you pay us back for 50 years of M.A.D. (it's expensive ya know), but this is a good start.



(I'm joking about the last part.  We don't expect you to pay us back.  You guys would have done the same for us of course.)