WASHINGTON - The Boeing Co. has been awarded a giant $35 billion contract to build airborne refueling tankers for the U.S. Air Force.The decision was announced Thursday afternoon by officials at the Pentagon.The tanker will be built primarily in Everett and Wichita, Kan., and will generate 50,000 jobs - many of them in the local economy.Boeing's bid won out over a competing bid by the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, or EADS, parent company of Airbus.
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Editorial: Really, we needed to wait ten years (Thank you Senator John MCcain) to rebid the Tanker deal? Does the United States really want their war machine to be built by foreign countries? This deal will keep tax payers dollars in the United States and not going overseas. It creates or maintains jobs in the US and not a foreign country. Please take a look at Bob's post in Dulles it says it all. Get informed and call you Congressman or Senator and of course Governor.
Airbus has enough subsides from their government to keep them going. That was proven by the latest decision from the WTO.
Look what happen today with the last launch of Discovery Space Shuttle. We can build it and it will last a long time. Thank you Senator Murray, Senator Cantwell and the great Congressman Norm Dicks , also Governor Chris Gregoier! for fighting so hard to keep jobs in America!
Jock
