This is an ‘all things are equal’ argument. However all things are NOT equal. If India wants a Boeing it has to pay Boeing. Boeing is a product of the most efficient, productive, creative and economically aggressive Nation on the planet. Nobody overlooks us with respect to those traits—NOBODY. Americans have uplifted themselves and their society with blood, sweat, tears and a HELL of a lot of self deprivation over the years with the result that we occupy a high place that we have EARNED and have every right to maintain.
Indeed Boeing itself is an excellent example of traditional American capital ingenuity. Boeing is a private Co. going against statist entities, it takes a hell of a lot of prowess in the areas of ‘productivity, creativity, and efficiency’ to do that.
Boeing is not equal with Airbus. American society is not equal with Indian society. The Indians don’t have anything over us except their dirt-cheap on account of living-in-some-hell-hole lifestyles. If Americans have to tighten their belts and work harder, fine. But equating them with and putting them head to head with every peon class on the globe is going to lead to grief.
That right there is my point.
Wishing we were alone in the world, where consumers around the world had to buy our products at any price we set, isn't going to make it reality.
So we have to face reality.