Why is Airbus Bidding on a US Military Air Tanker Contract

The World really is getting much closer together in regards to trade. But some ask why is an Airbus being retrofitted for the military to use? Why not an American company? Why is Airbus a European Union Company going to bid on Making a United States Military Air Tanker?

Well there are lots of reasons for this, one reason is that the DOD and the Senators are trying to teach Boeing a lesson for playing games with the “leases” on a bid for the flying gas stations in the past in an aerial re-fueling aircraft scandal. John McCain took it on as a personal political issue. Since Boeing has little competition in this matter, they are allowing Airbus.

Of course there are other reasons for instance we want access to their markets as well. Many nations in the EU need to replace their old fighter aircraft in case of a future conflict of political will being settled by war with a new Super Power like China. Our Industrial Military Complex would like to them jets, planes, tanks, missile defense systems and Smart Munitions. Also we would like some levers to prevent the EU from selling modernized weapons to potentially future rogue nations, which may not be politically stable in the future period, ushering yet another era of war.

Also the politics of Boeing being black balled world wide because that company although it is broken into sectors; military, satellite, commercial aviation, submarines, etc. is said to be subsidized by our military and government; just as we point to Airbus Commercial Airlines being subsidized by EU nations. It is a big issue in the EU over competition and state sponsored business.

Also this affects US Companies like Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Monsanto, Drug companies over there in European markets. There is a lot of cross multi-national conglomeration pull in international politics. Look at ChevronTexeco, ExxonMobile, BP in the oil sector or Roche and our pharmaceutical companies. You have to remember who is really running the world and how it all has to gel together to work. It is a giant chess board and it all has to work. You see?

Even the contract for the Future Presidential Helicopters will have Westwind, a UK based company rotor blades on the Marine One in the future? Same type of thing and you must also realize Halliburton is building UK Aircraft Carriers? We need to kind of keep our doors open so we can all find our niche and allow them to bid on our contracts to keep our companies honest and get the best price for the taxpayer.

Plato would have liked this. For instance if every corporation does what it is best at and alleviated from what they suck at, then the universal community is best served you see? Read the Republic by Plato or go pick up the cliffs notes and read this if you have some more time;

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Here is the deal, in the future we will need to act more like a global market and if we want to compete, then we will not be able to block out European Union allies from bidding on our lucrative Military Contracts. At first glance this may all look like some sort of conspiracy, but in the end it will be the best for all concerned, free markets usually are. Think on this.

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