McCain getting heat for shipping US jobs overseas: Boeing v. Airbus

[featherman]

"Angry Boeing supporters are vowing revenge against Republican presidential candidate John McCain over Chicago-based Boeing's loss of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to the parent company of European plane maker Airbus.
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But Boeing supporters in Congress are directing their wrath at McCain, the Arizona senator and nominee in waiting, for scuttling an earlier deal that would have let Boeing build the next generation of Air Force refueling tankers. Boeing now will miss out on a deal that it says would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs at the company and suppliers in 40 states.

"I hope the voters of this state remember what John McCain has done to them and their jobs," said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., whose state would have been home to the tanker program and gained about 9,000 jobs.

"Having made sure that Iraq gets new schools, roads, bridges and dams that we deny America, now we are making sure that France gets the jobs that Americans used to have," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. "We are sending the jobs overseas, all because John McCain demanded it."

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[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Damn those open-bid contracts, anyway!

How dare those Europeans underbid Boeing? It's un-American!

(Even under the Airbus/Northrop Grumman consortium, the new tanker will be 60% US-produced and will support 27000 American jobs; perhaps the problem lies with Boeing's inability to bid competitively?)

[Suzie57]

3. Boeing bid to the RFP

Northrop/Airbus did not.

[tabatha]

2. That is why he has lost the election - before anyone runs against him.