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March 24, 2008

Defense outsourcing

Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo Print Reprints Post comment Text size: Your article on Boeing's shocking loss to French manufacturer European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. in the Air Force's tanker competition ("Fuel tanker deal draws fire," March 9) missed some key information that puts this upset in critical perspective: The Department of Defense has effectively outsourced some 44,000 manufacturing jobs to a foreign company that routinely flouts American institutions and international law.

Over the last 30 years, EADS has pursued a trade war against U.S. aerospace manufacturers, using some $100 billion in government subsidies to win market share and siphon off thousands of American jobs. And EADS has laughed in the face of American workers by turbocharging their tanker bid with billions of these subsidies, which the U.S. trade representative has condemned in an historic World Trade Organization lawsuit.

By awarding the largest defense contract in generations to this anti-American company, the Defense Department has dealt our manufacturing industry a double blow, sanctioning EADS' subsidies program and outsourcing tens of thousands of U.S. aerospace jobs.

Shocked defense analysts across the country, who nearly all predicted that Boeing would win the contract because its design seemed to perfectly match the Air Force's criteria, are asking why the Defense Department would go out of its way to reward a foreign manufacturer, with such disastrous results for the U.S. economy. Congress needs to get to bottom of this by holding immediate hearings.

By: Richard Michalski (Posted 3/23/08)

General vice president, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Upper Marlboro, Md.

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