Engineers up in arms over tanker contract
WASHINGTON – The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers issued a major report today about the tanker contract awarded by the Pentagon to a European consortium instead of to St. Louis-based Boeing’s defense business.
The union, known as IFPTE, is highly critical of the decision, saying it takes a step further the prior awarding of the presidential helicopter contract to a an Anglo-Italian entity. In each instance, IFPTE contends, an American firm was used as a “front company,” but the work actually will largely be done in Europe.
Too much consolidation in the U.S. defense industry has led the administration to seek better deals by encouraging competition globally, but that has national security implications, says Paul Shearon, the union’s secretary-treasurer.
In an interview, he cited national security concerns “in terms of jobs and also technology transfer.”
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We have come too far down a dark road, since the 14th Amendment was warped by Corporate lawyers to give corporations citizen status. With no Spirit to save,and no Body to incarcerate, the power and persuasions of these behemoths gets larger and larger. When the bottom line is to do or die for the stockholder, how secure can this Nation be? Who are these stockholders? Are they Americans, or globalists? At what point will we also outsource the making of the “Purple Heart”? Defense Secretary Gates has a long history of politicizing data, skewing it to serve a political agenda.
Does anybody remember the Trojan Horse, by the way?