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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts) Mon Jul 9, 2012, 07:40 PM Jul 2012

Chinese firm to buy Hawker Beechcraft!

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Struggling aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft announced Monday that it had reached a $1.79 billion "exclusivity agreement" with a Chinese aerospace manufacturer for the sale of its business jet and general aviation operations in a deal that will save thousands of jobs in Kansas and Arkansas.

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Chinese firm to buy Hawker Beechcraft! (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Jul 2012 OP

Goldman-Sachs sells their bankrupt Wellstone ruled Jul 2012 #1

After gutting American companies, our capitalists are selling what is left to foreigners. AdHocSolver Jul 2012 #2

The outrage over this is a bit selective, you know DavidDvorkin Jul 2012 #3

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

1. Goldman-Sachs sells their bankrupt

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 09:34 PM

Jul 2012

aircraft company to a China Company.

Say it like it is!!

AdHocSolver

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2. After gutting American companies, our capitalists are selling what is left to foreigners.

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Tue Jul 10, 2012, 01:45 AM

Jul 2012

K and R.

DavidDvorkin

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3. The outrage over this is a bit selective, you know

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:30 AM

Jul 2012

What about the sale of Hawker, a great British company with a great history, to Raytheon, the owner of Beechcraft, some years ago? Isn't that just as great an outrage, in exactly the same way?

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