Your Brit friends are mixing apples and oranges.... and grapes.
The first paragraph refers to the rocket deal where two former Rockwell employees brought documents with them they shouldn't have. When Boeing found out they blew the whistle, but the damage had been done by the two perps and their cow orkers, so Boeing lost a billion dollars worth of rocket contracts.
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not corporate welfare for a company that had also bribed Air Force many officials (only some got punished) to win a previous contract,
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I asked you to cite.
Second & third paragraph, The tanker lease deal to avoid putting a lot of money out to buy them. The typical Air Force personnel that rotate through the pentagon procurement office every 14 months or so, know jack shit. They leave that to civilian personnel, that stay longer and follow the entire process. As long as things go smoothly, the Air Force personnel just want to put in their time, collect their atta boy and move up the ladder. This is why the pentagon woman, and two Boeing employees, went to jail when they were discovered.
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not corporate welfare for a company that had also bribed Air Force many officials (only some got punished) to win a previous contract,
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I asked you to cite.
Forth paragraph, Says congressmen/women won't vote for appropriations unless a company in their "home patch" gets a piece of the subcontracting.... surprise, surprise. This is reality in the World. In order to sell aircraft, military or commercial, to any country in the world, you have to subcontract to companies in that country. Then you get into Canada arguing about how many dollars of that work, go to companies in french Canada vs English Canada.
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not corporate welfare for a company that had also bribed Air Force many officials (only some got punished) to win a previous contract,
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I asked you to cite.
Then after not citing as I requested, tw speculates in garbage about corporate welfare keeping the 767 line open. In truth, Boeing has been expecting to phase out the 767 line since the introduction of the 777 in 1998.
The only reason that didn't happen is because the Air Force insisted the 777 was too big and expensive for their needs. The 767 has been used to build some tankers for foreign countries, but mostly just hanging fire waiting for the Air Force. Boeing requested the 777 be used for tankers, from the gitgo, and changing the 767 line to a 777 line is a piece of cake.
The bottom line is, like the rotating pentagon officers, tw knows jack shit.