Wichita, KS –US workers are sacrificed for the good of the military

The US free enterprise system doesn’t mind asking it’s working class people to spill their blood for their corporate masters, but what do the corporate masters do in return. According to The Wichita Eagle:

“The U.S. Air Force chose a Northrop Grumman/European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. team for a $35 billion contract to replace its aging fleet of refueling tankers, dealing a blow to Boeing and the Kansas economy.”

Our local Rep. Todd Tiahrt, Republican has banked his career on getting that contract for the workers in Wichita, working for Wichita Boeing.

Tiahrt gave his usual clap trap about the military giving jobs to a foreign firm:

"I am deeply troubled by the Air Force's decision to award the... tanker to a French company that has never built a tanker in its history," U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, said in a statement. "I cannot believe that we would create French jobs in place of Kansas jobs."

Once again it is outsourcing that puts American workers out of business. But it was a business decision and no one has promoted faith in the rights of big business, no one has championed letting businesses decide what is best for our economy more than Tiahrt. The present US Congress if full of such right-wing idiots and Tiahrt is just one of them. So if anyone complains that big business has not been fair to the American worker it should not be Tiahrt.

Tiahrt also promised to make the American worker more competitive. He can’t even save our jobs from the French. With our present government sacrificing American workers to the New World Order, it is no surprise that the welfare of US citizens are not taken into consideration for such contracts by the very military that pretends to fight in their interest.

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