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2011-11-21 Economy

Obama Admin Bans US Aircraft Maker, Favors Non-US Firm with Ties to Iran

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-21 08:17|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Guess the check didn't show up in the mail.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-11-21 09:00|| 2011-11-21 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Guess the check didn't show up in the mail

Bingo! Got it in one.

Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-11-21 09:21|| 2011-11-21 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Yep. This administration is so corrupt you could tell who would win by who bribed the most.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-11-21 10:14|| 2011-11-21 10:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Is this job creation or job saving?
(snark)

I thought we had buy american provisions in the FAR? Or we did when I was a procurement officer.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-11-21 10:31|| 2011-11-21 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 This administration is so corrupt you could tell who would win by who bribed the most

Obama's going to get writers cramp issuing presidential pardons in 2013.

Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-11-21 10:32|| 2011-11-21 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Even Chris "I-get-that-tingling-up-my-leg-at-the-sight-of-BO" Matthews is souring on BO. Things have got to be bad.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-21 10:36|| 2011-11-21 10:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Let's see here: we can't drill for oil in the Gulf but we give Brazil money to drill off-shore.

Now we won't buy our own AT airplane but we'll buy Brazil's.

Perhaps two data points does not yet demonstrate a pattern. Do we have a third?

Posted by Steve White 2011-11-21 11:16|| 2011-11-21 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama's going to get writers cramp issuing presidential pardons in 2013

Can't issue a pardon for something you haven't been convicted of. The real question is one of statute of limitations.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-11-21 11:20|| 2011-11-21 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Embraer. Brazil? Do I smell Soros money in this?

Posted by Speamble Wittlesbach8094 2011-11-21 11:39|| 2011-11-21 11:39|| Front Page Top

#10 BO's next step is to end all US major oil and gas subsidies, including... ethanol subsidies in the US to bolster the Brazilian ethanol market.

Corn ethanol is a boondoggle anyway, but at least its one of the few boondoggles that benefits hard working American farmers not foreign interests like Brazilian sugar lords.

Posted by Ominous1 2011-11-21 11:50|| 2011-11-21 11:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Only the latest in a long string of Democrats selling out America.

Forbes Still Calling for Investigation Into GEs China Deal

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-11-21 11:58|| 2011-11-21 11:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Can't issue a pardon for something you haven't been convicted of. I thought that was exactly what Pres. Ford did for tricky Dick - gave him a blanket pardon.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-11-21 15:24|| 2011-11-21 15:24|| Front Page Top

#13 True. Can you name any others?
It was an extraordinary event and circumstances. As they may say the exception to the rule. No one pressed about the constitutionality of the act. Those in the various levels of power in the event were happy to 'move on'.

The danger of issuing a flurry of pardons of officials and employees of the government is that it sets a precedent that those then moving in can follow as they engage in actions against those who've just lost power. What LITTLE integrity is left in the system will basically be exhausted. That gets to the legitimacy of the government itself. Who'll die defending it? We witnessed that when the Communist regime in Moscow fell.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-11-21 21:12|| 2011-11-21 21:12|| Front Page Top

#14 And pray tell, what new or expanded markets, etc. is the US = Made-In-The-USA Products getting access to by way of Brasilia' = Brazil's Govt.???

INQUIRING FUTURE, POST-GWOT INTERNATIONAL SPACE TEAMSTERS + STARSHIP CHANDLERS, ETC. WANNA KNOW!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-21 21:43|| 2011-11-21 21:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, 2 down, only 55 to go. Can't build planes in South Carolina, can't build planes in Kansas, which state is next? Texas maybe, home of the V-22, a candidate for budget cuts, despite the recent Panetta show and tell test drive....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2011-11-21 22:03|| 2011-11-21 22:03|| Front Page Top

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