Originally Posted by
IQuitEagle
First, Airbus is a European company, so how is it "outsourcing" American jobs? It is a competitor to Boeing. By your logic, BMW, Ferrari, Fiat, Mazda, etc., are responsible for "outsourcing" American jobs as they are competition for Ford and GM. So competition and free-markets are not what you like, apparently.
Second, if you really are concerned about supporting companies that outsource American jobs, then you definitely should NOT fly on Boeing. Unlike Airbus, Boeing is an American company, but has decided to outsource overseas. Or perhaps you were unaware that the ONLY piece of the 787 that is being made in the USA is the tailfin. The rest are produced overseas, and shipped in for assembly in the USA. Even the wing, which Boeing previously had held close to home as an essential in-house and secretive manufacturing gem, is now being made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, in Japan. This article details just where the different sections are made:
Business & Technology | Boeing 787: Parts from around world will be swiftly integrated | Seattle Times Newspaper
So to protest your aversion to "outsourcing", you had better not fly at all, seeing as how you will likely end up on an Airbus, Boeing, Canadair, or Embraer...
Eagle,
You have done a great job of taking things totally out of context. I mean you pretty much called me a Communist by saying that I don't like a free market.
By an American company not purchasing American products they are sending US dollars out of the country and taking work away from American workers. Yes I know some of the components of an airbus come form the US and that brings some of the money back and backs some of our jobs but do you really believe that it is more beneficial to our economy to bypass our own industry and import from another nation? If you do then, well you have a wright to your opinion but myself and a lot of others certainly do not agree.
I am fully aware of where the Dreamliner components are manufactured, I don't necessarily like it but it is what it is. While they do eliminate jobs by outsourcing this work the overall program keeps a lot of Americans employed. In fact Boeing is the 4th largest industrial employer in the US and 24th largest overall in the US, employing over 77,000 just in Washington state. Another large assembly plant is coming on line in Charleston SC to support the 787 assembly. This coming from MSNBC.
Bottom line when you buy from a US company you are supporting our economy more than you do from buying an import. This is true with more than just aircraft, and yes to answer another comment in your above post I have always purchased my pickup from a an American company. As for your comment that I shouldn't fly because I am supporting outsourcing, I have no problems with people buying a ERJ or CRJ because no one in the US builds anything to compete with that type of airframe.
I don't see how my personal choice to not fly on carriers that buy primarily airbus turned into such a big deal to you. It is my personal way of supporting the companies that support our own economy the most, I am not trying to push my opinions on anyone else, I am simply stating them.