Rep. Todd Tiahrt petition against the Air Force giving their tanker contract to France along with 40/100 billion US taxpayer dollars and 44,000 American jobs!

Tanker outrage petition.

http://www.house.gov/tiahrt/tanker_survey.htm


NOC/Airbus won the coveted $40/$100Bn Air Force contract - something I am furious about as we’re spending $168Bn in order to send people $600 yet we’re sending 40,000 $1,000 PER WEEK jobs out of the country with another $100Bn of our tax dollars. This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of! And when the employment situation in this country gets worse and the tax base shrinks and the government cuts the Air Force’s contract back due to funding cuts - let’s remember to laugh at these idiots who are supposedly there to protect the interests of AMERICANS but decided they’d rather defend the unemployed ones.

So we are taking $100Bn US dollars and using them to buy Euros to pay Airbus - gee, that should be a real help for the dollar right? "We should have an American tanker built by an American company with American workers," said Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., who represents the district in Wichita where Boeing would have done much of the tanker work. Tiahrt said he will try to reverse the decision.

http://www.philstockworld.com/2008/03/0 ... madness-7/