Comments on: Air Force to purchase Brazilian planes – Obama nixes more jobs

By: David Mahaffey

David Mahaffey — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:03:53 +0000

The thought that our pilots would be flying around in foreign-made aircraft sickens me. I guess the next edition of Air Force 1, will be open to the Europeans, Russians and Chinese. This country won World War II based on two things. First, we had the best troops in the world. Secondly, was the capacity of American industry to change from an automobile plant to tank production almost overnight. It sickens me that poiticians want our troops to fight their wars, while debasing them at every opportunity. As an Air Force brat, I think I began to see the changes coming when it was decided that the Strategic Air Command name needed to be changed. Patton, LeMay, Doolittle, MacArthur and the other greats of WW II and the Cold War era must be turning over in their graves at what is happenng to the service branches they built.

By: tcidda

tcidda — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:50:35 +0000

the president of jobs and employment huh.doesn’t sound like it to me.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:44:15 +0000

The Tacano will be assembled in Florida and reported will employ 2100 Americans (vs 1400 at Beecher). The Tacano can carry more ordinance and isn’t a converted trainer, it was designed from the start as a tactical attack plane, including a wider undercarriage for rough-field operations. It’s the superior plane for our troops. But that’s not iportant to you is it? Oh. And this was a Pentagon decision, not a dictate from one man in the White House. Please learn to read. Fox is not a source of news.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:01:47 +0000

The two billionaire brothers , David and Charles Koch are the ones who financed the Tea Party. Guess where they are from -Wichita , Ks. This is the same situation when the Bush Adm. gave the “no bid: contracts to Vice President Cheney’s old company.

The old saying “Paybacks a bitch” certainly applies here. Which Party is in the White House gets to make these decisions.

The only way to stop this is to throw all the elected officials in Wa. D.C. (including the Tea Party , they cost me $50K out of my retirement account when they held up the legislation to raise the debt ceiling )- note the Democrats never did this to President George Bush in his eight years even thought he was responsible for the borrow limits to go sky high with the “weapons of mass destructions ” War .

Until the American voter really wants change (I don’t call the Tea Party change as the Koch Brothers financed the Tea Party) they have to come up with a true third party that does not answer to the Republican Koch Brothers or even Democrat George Soros.

Make change America , let the 99% speak.

By: Hound

Hound — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:13:04 +0000

Follow the money – if Embraer gets the contract George Soros will financially benefit from his investments. Another “FOO” (Friend Of Obama) getting rich off of the Tax Payers – Why not run both aircraft through the testing and may the best plane win.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:37:40 +0000

Well I hear and feel the pain and the frustration as I work in the aerospace industry myself. I want to first say that I am not an Obama lover, but in all fairness the same thing happened a few years ago under the Bush administration. As I recall the Air Force struck a deal with Airbus (French) for a number of air refueling tankers. Prior to that the Army bought several light attack helicopters from Eurocopter instead from Bell or Sikorsky. So this is not new. Congress makes those decisions on weapon system performance, price and long term maintenance cost of the units they buy. It seems to me that some of our US companies are becoming complacent and secure in being able to historically secure contracts with the DoD to the point that they (some US companies) fall short of offering value and innovation to their customers. Bell realized that and it is now investing several million dollars in modernizing their facilities as well as investing in new technologies.
Just keep that in mind before you start pointing fingers at the current clown in the oval office.

By: DIane

DIane — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:52:24 +0000

Kudos to Stan for defending a private corporation.

It’s so funny. Conservatives love capitalism until somebody they don’t like starts buying the product made. Then it’s “those nasty Iranians are *gasp* buying these planes! How dare Obama do business with a company that in its capitalistic way dares SELL their planes to *gasp* Iran!!” Embraer is a private corporation, and according to your own rules of free market capitalism, can sell their product to whoever they damn well please. If American corporations want to compete in the global free market place, then they better get their rears in gear and start—I don’t know–competing instead of sending their jobs (and parts) overseas so they can get their product built / assembled by an inferior workforce for one dollar an hour.

Plenty of other countries who are democratic buy that plane too.
http://www.embraer.com/en-US/ConhecaEmbraer/PresencaGlobal/Pages/Home.aspx

It’s been fun dropping into this Obama-bash session, *yawn* but it’s time to go on to something more worthwhile.

By: jim

jim — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:13:18 +0000

This administration has been on the razors edge as far as treasonous activity. The fact that he is not making jobs but causing even more to fall into the despair of joblessness with not only this more but by disallowing the Canadian pipeline… Less jobs means means more dependants on the government…

By: Stan

Stan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:41:52 +0000

In a capitalist system , there is competition and the stronger competitor beats the weaker one . In this case the American company was the weaker while the brazilians had superior aircraft ( and actually brazil is a Market leader in making small planes ) so why the weeping ? Wouldn’t it be socialism if the president and the government picked a weaker plane which doesn’t meet it’s require end just because it was American? After all you jumped on the president for saving the American auto industry which could not compete with the Japanese and Germans and saving thousands of jobs . This sounds like an article for whiners . Also it is disgraceful trying to paint this company as having ties to Iran just cow the Brazilian government has no beef with the Iranians like the Americans and Israelis . It is a Private company and it sells it’s products all over the world from south Africa to Sudan and Iran . There are german cars in Iran does that mean Germany supports Iran ? Irans airforce is made up entirely of American planes so does that mean we support Iran too? So just because they sold a training plane to Iran years ago in the eighties does jot make them be under the banner of having ties with Iran . If anything it should be a wake up call to defence contractors who sell substandard products just because they assume that they have first shot at American defence needs . Thaw not how the free Market works .

By: stephenwv

stephenwv — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:14:38 +0000

That is the lying deceitful spin that those that would destroy all hope of freedom for the people of the world to be subjugated by the Oligarchy of a One World Government. As David Rockefeller said:
” “For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will,” wrote David Rockefeller in his autobiography. “If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
Additionally:
“This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long – We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
-David Rockefeller wrote on Sept. 23, 1994

“The threat of environmental crisis will be the ‘international disaster key’ that will unlock the New World Order.”
-Mikhail Gorbachev

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
-David Rockefeller Banker, Founder & Honorary Chairman of Trilateral Commission, Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. Speaking at the June, 1991 Bilderberg meeting in Baden, Germany (a meeting also attended by then-Governor Bill Clinton and by Dan Quayle)

“In the next century, nations as we know them will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, Global Authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.”
- Strobe Talbot, President Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, Time Magazine, July 20th, l992

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a One-World Government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control….
Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
-Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets.