[GZG] Re: Strange Geopolitical

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> On 8/25/06, Scott Siebold wrote:

They already have. Air France runs a fair number of Boeing aircraft. Does
France subsidise the building of US plants in France?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France

> Parts of Boeing aircraft are produced in Japan (among other places) -

Does Japan subsidize the building of US plants in Japan?

> I didn't bother looking it up, but I imagine the French Air Force runs

  If you read what I wrote it isn't anti-French so much as dumb US
government. A plant subsidized by US government in Alabama will mean a net
gain of jobs in Alabama with equal job loss in other states (major plants for
Boing are in Washington state). Throw in the parts and sub assemblies that do
not originate in US and it results in a net job loss in the US payed for by US
government.

That various governments in EU wish to subsidize Air Bus I can live with. That
the US government also may subsidize Airbus is a bit too much.