the donkey punch

Americans freed from military-industrial complex, jobs:

In a shocking upset Friday, Boeing lost the long-awaited and lucrative Air Force refueling-tanker contract to a competing bid based on an Airbus plane.
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Boeing’s loss means the 767 assembly line in Everett will wind to a close around 2012 when the current commercial orders run out.  
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Large sections of the Northrop/EADS tanker will be built in Europe; they will be shipped across the Atlantic for assembly at a new widebody-jet plant to be built in Mobile, Ala., which will gain some 1,500 direct jobs.

Employing Europeans, shipping planes back and forth across the Atlantic, screwing 2,000 to 6,000 Washingtonians out of jobs. I love it.

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