USA - All students must show "papers"

hmm, I'll have to check back with Lou Dobbs on that one.

Dodge and Ford, but clearly many Canadian parts;^)

Frank

"Jack" wrote in message
...
F.L. Whiteley wrote:

Yes, thanks for contributing your tax euros to our tax dollars to allow
airlines such as Northwest to buy these ["Airbus planes"] with their
government post 9/11 handout.

According to the US Treasury's Air Transportation Stabilization Board
website:

http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/domes...activity.shtml

Northwest Airlines http://www.nwa.com is _not_ among those airlines
who have applied for and received so-called "bailout" funds from the
Federal Government, nor are any of the other largest US Airlines, with
the exception of UAL who have yet to have any of their applications
approved.

The 319-320-321 series of Airbus aircraft fit the needs, and the pocket
books, of the several US Airlines who operate them better than the
competing models from Boeing. Sorry about that. Perhaps your company
operates differently and doesn't mind subsidizing competing suppliers
whose products/prices don't quite measure up to your needs. The
stockholders of NWA do not agree. The 40,000 employees of NWA are glad
that they are not among those workers whose airlines have declared
bankruptcy.

I prefer to "buy American" myself, and I wish that no Airbus aircraft
had ever been sold to a US Airline, but then I don't have to answer to a
Board of Directors nor a horde of stockholders about purchasing
decisions. Do you own and drive US-made automobiles Frank, or even ones
constructed primarily in N. America? I hope so.


Jack

According to the US Treasury's Air Transportation Stabilization Board
website:


http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/domes...activity.shtml

Northwest Airlines http://www.nwa.com is _not_ among those airlines
who have applied for and received so-called "bailout" funds from the
Federal Government, nor are any of the other largest US Airlines, with
the exception of UAL who have yet to have any of their applications
approved.

Interestingly, HR2926 authorized $15B, of which $10B were loan guarantees
(UAL case) and $5B in direct grants. Oddly, there is no mention of any
grant funds being requested nor dispersed via ATSB though the industry
stated losses were claimed to be $330M/day and would have qualified for the
grants. Lou Dobbs made the assertion on his 9/15 program that NWA had spent
$400M of these funds on Airbus acquisitions. That may have been citing the
documentary snippet 'American Jobs' that he was borrowing from that week. I
note there is no mention of this assertion in the transcripts of that day's
program. Nor have I found a retraction in subsequent programs. I e-mailed
CNN/Lou Dobbs for clarification on this assertion. Interestingly, I found
another assertion elsewhere that 50 percent of Airbus derives from US
sources8^) I have no real problem with globalized industries, other than
valued technologies are virtually given away. However, U.S. deflation is a
relatively painful process though it's at least 25 years overdue. The flip
side may mean we do things a heap smarter domestically sooner rather than
later.

Frank
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