airlineThis is what happens when accountants run the government. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I have anything against accountants. I quite like mine, he's very good but there are others . . .
The US airforce has a requirement for some brand new tankers, they need them for air-to-air refuelling and also for transporting troops, both healthy and injured.
So the U.S. government opened up the bidding to all comers. The problem is that while Boeing put in a serious effort, Airbus won the competition! A french company is building these tankers for the U.S. airforce, what is wrong with this picture?
The competition should never have been opened up to foreign companies, it should have been "the U.S. government looking after U.S. interests, including industry." No, it turns out that they think they will save are dollars than the dollars the employment might have generated for their own citizens.
Globalisation is one thing and I'm all for it but looking after your own people is simple good manners. I'm not even American and I'm offended.
Well done G.W, you've scored yet another own-goal.
