Lou Dobbs of CNN going balistic over USA giving France 30 Billion $$ contract to build Tankers

[opihimoimoi]

America watches in Horror as we lose even more jobs to over seas...and those tankers are AIR FORCE TANKERS

WTF is going on....

The UNION President was on and sez he is just as BAFFLED...thousands of American Jobs were lost....

Those Pubs in the White House gonna pay big time for this SNAFU

[napi21]

1. we ALL should be going balistic over that deal! Giving that big of

a contract to a foreign company when we have a US company that could do the job BETTER is f'ing INSANE!

[opihimoimoi]

8. I found myself yelling WHO FUCK DID THIS??? It was some woman in PROCUREMENT

but I didn't get the name....

But this hugh deal cannot move by small potatos...the Bush Camp has to have their stamp on it...

The Bush guys are on a mission to DESTROY our People and our Nation...

FUCK THE GOP who got us this DUDE....

[BeHereNow]

12. Sorry, it's NOT just the GOP- Dems are complicit too.

The Trilateral Commission and CFR are filled
with dems and repukes alike.
Just ask the Clintons.
NAFTA was PURE TC and CFR agenda.
BHN

[opihimoimoi]

19. But the Bush guys are in charge...they take the hit....

[wuushew]

17. Do you have any evidence the Airbus product is inferior?

n/t

[sasquatch]

2. McCain supported it too!

If we can stop killing ourselves maybe we can focus on beating McCain.
x(

[opihimoimoi]

10. If McCane approved of this...he is GONE....forget the Presidency....

[keep_it_real]

3. You have to wonder is there really a conspiracy to destroy America?

[Diane R]

4. Bush & Co. are punishing Washington State because we have two Dem Senators, and a Dem Governor.

[cornermouse]

5. If I had a microphone and camera I'd go ballistic too.

It's disgraceful.

[alarimer]

6. Whose brother/wife/sister/in-law works or lobbies for Airbus?

I am quite sure this is one of those sleazy deals with payoffs to relatives somewhere.

[BeHereNow]

7. What part of the Trilateral Commission and Council for Foreign Relations does Lou not understand?

If Lou wants to report on something, why doesn't he
report on the NWO agenda of the elites?

What, is he SURPRISED?

Fuck off Lou Dobbs.

BHN

[Deja Q]

9. What will the repubs think?

Something like "Well, the French are building them. They'll fall apart just like the freedom fries I ate 5 years ago."

:popcorn:

[opihimoimoi]

11. I have to suspect...many many repub jobs were lost in the deal

They should be considering leaving the Pub Party over this crap

They just got stabbed in the back, neck,legs, arms, head, and dick.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Given the Euro's greater value than the dollar - this doesn't make sense

While I don't doubt that this French company can produce an outstanding product, I wonder how they won the contract over an American company and were found to be the cheaper source of the aircraft. Thirty billion I think would go a lot farther in the United States than abroad, but maybe I'm mistaken about this.

[opihimoimoi]

18. Something smells here...30 Billion ain't small change...and they knew this was going to be

a hot issue....

did Bush do this to torpedo McCane???

[MadMaddie]

14. Folks Boeing actually won the contract years ago

McCain is the one one that wanted it reviewed and possibly changed.

McCain hates Boeing...he was so arrogant that when he vistied WA he flew on an AirBus plane.

Folks this is our Albatros around his neck lets use it.

http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=cfd196cc-fbc8-4e2c-a815-91c969081e72&Region_id=&Issue_id=e746bb72-1e36-422a-b205-848b7b33fae0

[opihimoimoi]

15. How can the Gov't break a CONTRACT??? such as this one???

and give those jobs to over seas?

I am Baffled.

[MadMaddie]

20. It's the Republican way. Every time they get to screw an

American and destroy more of the middle class they start drooling.

They consider this the market working it's magic.

[opihimoimoi]

22. Keep the masses hungry syndrome...exploitors....boots on necks thingy

thats the GOOPers for ya

We are pawns and who gives a fuck about pawns?

[MadMaddie]

23. Mussolini didn't....oops.

[classykaren]

16. dont you remember the Pres of France at the Bush compound

a few months ago??????

[opihimoimoi]

21. Hmmmmmmm.....something is smelly here...why would Bush do it??

Hmmmmmm

[MadMaddie]

33. McCain was the one the restarted the rebid of the contract. I am

sure the * had something to do with it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. Bush has engaged in these kinds of shenanigans before

Remember in 2003 when the Bush Administration arranged to sell 48 F-16s to Poland? The deal was a virtual gift because it involved a loan with unbelievable terms and a 15 year repayment plan. It was called the "deal of the century" and a virtual gift, as well as corporate welfare to Lockheed Martin. Because Poland was offered those planes so cheaply, their negotiations with the French company Dassault (maker of the Mirage) fell through. Bush was trying to punish the French back then. And Bush used that deal to try to lure Poland away from "old Europe" and away from the influence of Brussels and the European Union. Later, he called on the Polish President to support his war in Iraq and used that deal and similar deals with other nations to try to form his coalition of the willing. Something tells me this deal with Airbus also has some geopolitical backstory to it, more than meets the eye.

[opihimoimoi]

34. There is something about this Dude we call Bush....hmmmmm

[tom_paine]

24. No they're not. It will go consequencelessly down the Memory Hole.

Sorry, opi. Don't blame the messenger.

[opihimoimoi]

26. The Gov't is not the messenger...they are the guys paying out monies

Something smells ...American jobs lost just at a time when needed...the guys signing the checks gatta be Pubs...they own the DOD until a new Prezinent comes aboard....

[tom_paine]

29. I meant the messenger was me. Of course something smells. The Bushies are the most corrupt

rulers Old or New America has ever had. EVER. HAD.

But what I meant was don't be bummed when the Bushies get no more backlash and trouble than they got from turning the DOJ-Civil Rights Division to the Dept. of Minority Disenfranchisement, or any other of tne dozen of felonies they have openly committed.

[opihimoimoi]

35. LOL...gotcha...

[Captain Angry]

25. Boeing was screwed by themselves, and the DoD.

From what I've read...

1: The Dept. of Defense changed the project requirements late in the game, so the plane that Boeing proposed was not the best fit. If the DoD had made the change sooner, Boeing could have substituted the 777 instead of the 767 they bid.

2: Boeing *is* the company that had won this project a while back, but were caught bribing people to get the project. So that was canceled.

3: Are Boeing employees in Washington more American than Northrup employees in Alabama? If the new aircraft are built in Alabama, then the only jobs heading overseas (potentially) would be project managers and a the design/retrofit team.

C'est la vie. Boeing's the company that strung Denver and Dallas along while they tried to get Chicago to concede more to have them move their headquarters. Cities shouldn't have to bribe a company's executives to get them to move a site into town.

[opihimoimoi]

27. So why didn't the contract go to the Alabama Company??? Hmmmmm

[Captain Angry]

30. Ok, quick. Name every multibillion dollar aircraft company in Alabama.

Northrup is just using a foreign chassis. If it's assembled here, cool deal.

The USAF isn't going to enter a contract for a replacement for their tanker fleet with somebody that can't handle it and long term servicing and parts.

There are very few companies on earth that can supply a top-10 military, let alone the largest one.

[madrchsod]

28. it`s being assembled in Alabama

most of the airframe is coming from europe. airbus is losing money...start following the money folks

[Captain Angry]

32. That will be the interesting part.

If they're truly losing money, they could be doing to get their first foothold in the United States military supplier category.

If there's something shady going on, it will be found. Boeing's too well funded to let this slide by. If the story disappears, it's because there's no story.