Reply #12: personally i think the line are blurred...

[Revolution9]

with union sympathy and military contracts.

unions garauntee job security and benefits through collective bargaining.

military order contracts are in essence temporary entities.

states that rely on making weapons and contracts through temporary order agreements should expect this sort of thing to happen.

i don't see us still building other stuff from other wars we do not use and is too expensive to produce. Why should the cold war and it's out-modded stuff be any different?

the fact that we try to collectively cry tears that boeing can't keep making a pretty hangar ornament is a lost concept to me. I don't care how many jobs are involved in making this thing.

Until the taliban is flying around in air superiority aircraft that can out perform the aging f-18 i will sleep well knowing my government cut waste by killing this pointless program.