Baloney, I heard that argument from free traitors way back when...we would make the hard, the important stuff...really then why did the US government award a contract for a military transport plane worth billions and billions to air bus?...manufacturing is in the toilet and this country is paying the price...One Ohio company same one that wrote the Dear GM letter sells only Japanese circuits. A made in Japan stamp is even more likely to be stamped on circuits.
They must be the same freepers who insisted that we were preventing revolution and anarchy in Mexico by allowing the mexican criminal class to cross the border in mass and destroy the construction trades while picking lettuce.
You guys make my head explode. They did not award the tanker project to AirBus. They awarded it to Northrup-Grumen. N-G decided to utilize an empty AirBus air frame which would be totally assembled and customized to the tanker application in a brand new US factory that would have created many hundreds of new jobs and then fitted with either GE or Pratt & Witney engines. The air frame would have been the cheapest part of the project.
Because of some bone heads, the entire project has been put on hold, and now that the Red Diaper babies control the government, will likely be ended.