Originally Posted by
dckozak
One hundred and forty post and still no smoking gun on Boeing ....
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Boeing and EADS spent $125,000,000.00 to win the Air Force Tanker project. How far you think they're willing to go for $150,000,000,000.00 + order?
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In a statement, Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, a political-advocacy group in Washington, D.C., called the bank "a corporate welfare slush fund."
"Boeing spent over $12 million lobbying Congress last year and, in return, is getting billions of dollars in Export-Import Bank financing," Chocola said. "Congress should end the Federal Bank of Boeing and instead promote more international trade through corporate tax reform and lower tariffs."
http://seattletimes.com/html/localne...timport18.html
Perhaps the OP titled this thread poorly. Boeing is not any pilot's "enemy." But, Boeing is a very powerful defense contractor with an older and dying book of McDonnell Douglas legacy defense products (C17, F15 and Space products being threatened by upstarts for 70% discounts). Boeing has to get efficient and produce jets ( a task it struggles with under Douglas management ). Boeing is no longer Boeing, it is Douglas. The same Douglas who sold MD90 tooling to China to get it started as an aerospace competitor and who cheaped it's own way right into near bankruptcy. Boeing isn't loyal and it's lost it's long standing corporate compass. It is a Corporate version of a very hungry animal.
Considering Boeing's considerable war chest and expertise in lobbying, it is no great leap to figure out how they are going to be twisting politicians' ears on this one.