{"id":570773,"date":"2010-05-19T17:29:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T21:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011905918_boeingvsairbusinusairforcetankercontract.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-05-19T17:29:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T21:29:50","slug":"boeing-vs-airbus-in-u-s-air-force-tanker-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570773","title":{"rendered":"Boeing vs. Airbus in U.S. Air Force tanker contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May the best tanker win<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Boeing wins the U.S. Air Force\u2019s tanker contract, it would mean 11,000 jobs at the company\u2019s local manufacturing facilities, as [\u201cGregoire, Murray boost Boeing in tanker bid,\u201d Seattletimes.com, May 10] mentioned. However, the story did not explain how European aerospace giant Airbus is attempting to steal the contract and the jobs by submitting an illegally subsidized tanker aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, local workers care deeply about this injustice. But it is a national issue as well. As President Obama launches a campaign against corporate greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street, voters are watching to see if he applies the same principles to other areas of government.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, voters would be outraged if an Obama Pentagon outsources a $35 billion defense contract to a company \u2014Airbus \u2014that has financed its bid with $5 billion in illegal subsidies, according to a final World Trade Organization ruling. Corporate accountability should apply to Pentagon contracts as well as Wall Street derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama promised French President Nicolas Sarkozy that the tanker competition would be fair and transparent. However, there could be no fair competition as long as Airbus is bidding an illegally subsidized tanker. The Pentagon should discount launch aid subsidies from Airbus\u2019 bid and let the best tanker win.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Don Brunell, Association of Washington Business president, Olympia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the best tanker win If Boeing wins the U.S. Air Force\u2019s tanker contract, it would mean 11,000 jobs at the company\u2019s local manufacturing facilities, as [\u201cGregoire, Murray boost Boeing in tanker bid,\u201d Seattletimes.com, May 10] mentioned. However, the story did not explain how European aerospace giant Airbus is attempting to steal the contract and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}