Quote Originally Posted by Logic1 View Post
Sure why not?
In a global society protectionism isnt really benefiting anybody and the contract was won by an American company AND a European one. Manufacturing takes place in Europe and assembly in the US afaik.
Why does 51 years of being an Airforce contractor make it better than something Northrop and EADS can make? The Airforce did make a good solid investigation on what would be the best deal and the best product that they could get. If the Boeing product wasnt as good as the other option then why should they choose that one?
Nobody wants to have or use an inferior product no matter what it is and especially the military imho.
Choose the best product and the other competitors needs to make their product better to compete.
Price isnt everything.
true but it is the manufacutring that will cost United States all those jobs, granite it is a combination of a US & Foreign Companies but all the work is being done over seas it is still offshoring all the jobs that Boeing would have kept here

the Unites States lost 65,000 jobs in Februaury here, the most in 1 month since 2002, the n the governement decides to take a $30 Billoin dollar Military contratc and send that over seas for producation, another 9,000-10,000 lost to over seas companies and by 2012 the contratc could exceed $100 billoinin value than many more lost potential US jobs, potenial meaning idf they wherebuilt here we would have the work and not off shore it