The US Air Force

[TimeForGuinness]

In this age of global capitalism where a company domiciled in one nation is like owned by individual and institutional investors from everywhere else, the nationality of the company winning the contract matters a lot less to me than the quality of the product and where the work is done.

Since it would have brought a decent amount of money and jobs to the St. Louis area, it would have been nice if Boeing got the contract. But that's me being selfish for St. Louis.

Would it? I thought it would primarily have benefited Washington State and Kansas. In any event, it isn't hurting the factory in Washington that builds 767s because they have a big backlog of commercial orders for the 767.

And Airbus is building a new factory in Alabama to build these tankers and future commercial A330s. I'm sure Alabama can dearly use such job creation.

I'm just going by what little bit I've heard on the radio. I'll admit to not paying very good attention to it.

St. Louis would have seen some of the work...and the 767 line will be shut down most likely.

[G. Keenan]

In this age of global capitalism where a company domiciled in one nation is like owned by individual and institutional investors from everywhere else, the nationality of the company winning the contract matters a lot less to me than the quality of the product and where the work is done.

Since it would have brought a decent amount of money and jobs to the St. Louis area, it would have been nice if Boeing got the contract. But that's me being selfish for St. Louis.

Would it? I thought it would primarily have benefited Washington State and Kansas. In any event, it isn't hurting the factory in Washington that builds 767s because they have a big backlog of commercial orders for the 767.

And Airbus is building a new factory in Alabama to build these tankers and future commercial A330s. I'm sure Alabama can dearly use such job creation.

I'm just going by what little bit I've heard on the radio. I'll admit to not paying very good attention to it.

St. Louis would have seen some of the work...and the 767 line will be shut down most likely.

Not until at least 2012 which is how long it will take to get through it's current backlog of 767 orders.

[TimeForGuinness]

In this age of global capitalism where a company domiciled in one nation is like owned by individual and institutional investors from everywhere else, the nationality of the company winning the contract matters a lot less to me than the quality of the product and where the work is done.

Since it would have brought a decent amount of money and jobs to the St. Louis area, it would have been nice if Boeing got the contract. But that's me being selfish for St. Louis.

Would it? I thought it would primarily have benefited Washington State and Kansas. In any event, it isn't hurting the factory in Washington that builds 767s because they have a big backlog of commercial orders for the 767.

And Airbus is building a new factory in Alabama to build these tankers and future commercial A330s. I'm sure Alabama can dearly use such job creation.

I'm just going by what little bit I've heard on the radio. I'll admit to not paying very good attention to it.

St. Louis would have seen some of the work...and the 767 line will be shut down most likely.

Not until at least 2012 which is how long it will take to get through it's current backlog of 767 orders.

2012 isn't a long way away...career-wise. Granted many will be shifted to the 787 line...but this contract probably would have kept that line open for another 20 years.

[New Pagodi]

It looks like they're going to redo the bidding process.

[Leroy]

Are any of you in the Air Force?

[sighyoung]

I'm not in the Air Force, but I can force air.

[jimedmondsfan]

Frankly, I am more upset about the Chrysler Building being 75% owned by Saudi Arabia.....

[sighyoung]

Frankly, I am more upset about the Chrysler Building being 75% owned by Saudi Arabia.....

I don't know. Japanese investors lost their shirts buying Rockefeller Center several years ago.