Long Beach Press Telegram: Airbus? Pas ici

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Long Beach Press Telegram

Airbus? Pas ici

Long Beach doesn't need 1,000 good jobs that badly (does it?)

Wanted: A nice long runway, space for a big building, a workforce experienced at assembling airplanes, access to a deep-water port and proximity to a university with a strong engineering program. Now where would Airbus find all of that in one place? Long Beach, of course.

But here's the hitch: Airbus wants the site for assembly of a military plane to replace the American-built KC-135 refueling tankers. That's right, Airbus, the company run by the very same French and a few other Europeans boycotted by your good friend and pundit Bill O'Reilly.

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It didn't count for much when representatives of California, along with 34 other states, lined up for a sales pitch this week from Airbus, which says it wants to invest $600 million in a new plant someplace in the United States. Even the state of Washington, former site of Boeing headquarters, accepted the invitation.

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That's bad enough. But to think Airbus might use government money French money! to win military contracts from the U.S. government — zut, alors!

Long Beach could use a $600 million plant and 1,000 good job. But we have to draw a line somewhere.

N'est-ce pas?

http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21479~2715210,00.html#

[damntexdem]

1. You bet Long Beach will take Airbus jobs.

Just as Wichita did when Airbus put a design facility there.

Boeing just hasn't kept it going. So now aircraft workers are going 'oui, oui.'

[fortyfeetunder]

2. Draw the line, my keister!

Rumor has it EADS partnering with Northrop Grumman for the tanker contract.

This is not a bad deal. After all, Boeing is pulling the plug on its 717 program down in Long Beach and some of those aerospace workers will soon be out of work.

[Flagg]

3. Let them starve.