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"I am deeply troubled by the Air Force's decision to award the KC-X tanker to a French company that has never built a tanker in its history," he said. "We should have an American tanker built by an American company with American workers. I cannot believe we would create French jobs in place of Kansas jobs."
The Congressional delegation from Seattle said they were "outraged" by the choice. "We are outraged that this decision taps European Airbus and its foreign workers to provide a tanker to our American military," said a joint statement from Washington Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, and with six other lawmakers from the area. "We will be asking tough questions about the decision to outsource this contract. We look forward to hearing the Air Force's justification."
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These people make me sick (hardly a shock, they're politicians, which puts them in the same bottom-feeder POS category as the media).
They're acting like Kansas and Washington are the only 2 states in the Union and that ZERO Americans will work on this project.
Then there's that statement from the two Washington senators about how they're going to grill the USAF on it's choice. Exactly WTF to these two idiots know about air-to-air refueling, pray tell? Unless there's a small army of Boeing lobbyists sitting behind them, whispering in their ears, they'll be utterly clueless.
F--king politicians.
