50 years of experience means nothing to me when most of it was spent with little or no competition. That to me equals lazy entitlement, which is exacly what I am reading between the lines of this silly, emotional appeal by Boeing. I'd love to have an X-ray device right now to see who on this posting are driving imports because Detroit auto makers got lazy and sold their souls to corrupt unions while ambitious foreigners left them in the dust.

Duncan Hunter and many conservative pundits such as Hugh Hewitt have bought the Norm Dicks and Patty Murray sob story hook line and sinker. I heard nothing from them back when we were getting fleeced by the corrupt sweetheart leasing deal that caused this whole competition in the first place.

Boeing will lose no workers from this - the unions will make sure of that. Let them worry about getting the planes they already have on back order built. The Northrop model will be the biggest increase in US jobs in the end, and it will re-vitalize an entire region of the US that really needs this.

Buy American - indeed.

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