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elSicomoro · 03-15-2008, 03:21 PM

This has been big news in St. Louis, as Boeing's defense ops are based here (at the old McDonnell Douglas).

I'm not sure what to believe...so many things have been said. Sen. Kit Bond is threatening to get Congress to yank the funding for it. If the EADS/Northrup plan is a better deal as a whole, then go for it. I don't have a problem with EADS having some control over a defense project...after all, isn't the EU supposed to be our friend? We sell American jets and what not to foreign countries all the time? And whoever got the contract is supposed to create a lot of jobs here in the States. I'd like to see those jobs here in St. Louis, but at least those jobs are Americans being employed.

03-15-2008, 03:21 PM	#26
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	This has been big news in St. Louis, as Boeing's defense ops are based here (at the old McDonnell Douglas). I'm not sure what to believe...so many things have been said. Sen. Kit Bond is threatening to get Congress to yank the funding for it. If the EADS/Northrup plan is a better deal as a whole, then go for it. I don't have a problem with EADS having some control over a defense project...after all, isn't the EU supposed to be our friend? We sell American jets and what not to foreign countries all the time? And whoever got the contract is supposed to create a lot of jobs here in the States. I'd like to see those jobs here in St. Louis, but at least those jobs are Americans being employed.