[appeal2]

Anyway you slice it, the Toulouse Goose is cooked.

[johniegrad]

Newspaper reports have suggested the German state may buy Daimler-Chrysler's 7.5% holding in the business. The French and Spanish governments already own shares in the company. \

This type of thinking is alien to me. I suppose with a stretch of the imagination one might start to think of farm subsidies but this seems odd.

[ivy]

At the end of the day, we do not want Airbus to go out of business...but they shouldn't ever get state $, let them live or die on their own.

But alas since States already own shares, there is no way they will be allowed to go out of business, therefore there is no real reason Airbus has to get its act together, and so on.