Only in America ...Welcome to Wally World

Boeing lost the contract for the Air Force tanker of the future. Northrup teamed up with EADS (Airbus) won the contract which will send most of $23,000,000,000 (thats 23 billions dollars Jed) overseas.

""The Northrop Grumman-EADS tanker is based on the newer Airbus A330 airframe. The planes are built in Toulouse, France, with final assembly planned for a new plant in Mobile, Ala.

Boeing would have built its tankers, based on its 767 airframe, at its plant in Everett, Wash.

The tanker program will be the second largest Pentagon contract ever, behind the $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter, said Loren Thompson, an analyst with the Lexington Institute, a military research center.

Lawmakers with Boeing plants in their states were dismayed by the announcement.

"I am shocked," said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., a senior member of the House Defense Appropriations Committee and a major Boeing supporter in Congress. "There will be an uprising on the Hill. There are a lot of members who just won't accept this.""

I just don't understand how our countries leaders and justify giving the second largest military contract ever to a mostly foreign venture. Where the hell do they think the U.S. tax dollars come form?
Someone needs to wake up or all our kids and grand-kids will have is Wally World or Micky D's

Yeah, I saw that. So much for pride in American made and helping the American economy.

Thank god he's only got less than a years left, but dunno if the replacement is gonna be much better.

I agree 100 % not much of a choice for the next President. I wish Ron Paul or Fred Thompson would have had a chance.

he is suppose to be smart , look close at the photo of him he is holding the book upside down