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kane · 03-01-2008, 03:15 PM

This kind of pisses me off. Our country is bleeding manufacturing jobs and now our government is joining in. They decided to award Airbus the 40 billion dollar contract to make 179 aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force. Some of the stuff will be built here in the US but much of it will not. So now billions in US tax dollars are going to provide good paying jobs to people outside the country.

The deal could be worth as much as 100 billion because if the pentagon is happy with the first order they may have Airbus make as many as 400 of these planes.

Am I the only one that thinks the government should only be giving defense contracts to US companies?

03-01-2008, 03:15 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	Should the US Government be giving defense contracts to non-us companies? This kind of pisses me off. Our country is bleeding manufacturing jobs and now our government is joining in. They decided to award Airbus the 40 billion dollar contract to make 179 aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force. Some of the stuff will be built here in the US but much of it will not. So now billions in US tax dollars are going to provide good paying jobs to people outside the country. The deal could be worth as much as 100 billion because if the pentagon is happy with the first order they may have Airbus make as many as 400 of these planes. Am I the only one that thinks the government should only be giving defense contracts to US companies?