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From: Rudy Canoza on 20 May 2007 00:22 Jeffrey Turner wrote: > Eeyore wrote: >> "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote: >> >> >>> Boeing competes for its military contract sales. >> >> Airbus describes them as 'pork barrel contracts'. > > Boeing has congressmembers on payroll, Prove it, shitbag.
From: Fred G. Mackey on 20 May 2007 00:24 Eeyore wrote: > > "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote: > > >>The two most important reasons for the huge cost differences in the US >>vs countries like China and India is a place to live and medical care. > > > Actually it's about basic produce like food and clothing too. > > As far as medical care goes, in the UK, the 'socialist' National Health Service that > gives care to everyone costs about �1200 ($2400) p.a. per head of population which is > a heck of a lot less than US health care costs, yet the US is forever resistant to > adopt such a scheme that has much lower costs and overheads. > Too many horror stories about National Health. > I don't know what the situation is in China but in India you don't get medical care > at all nor a pension when you retire. > > You can't even begin to make sensible comparisons. > > Graham >
From: Eeyore on 20 May 2007 00:30 Joe the Aroma wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > Jeffrey Turner wrote: > >> Eeyore wrote: > >> > "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote: > >> > > >> >>Boeing competes for its military contract sales. > >> > > >> > Airbus describes them as 'pork barrel contracts'. > >> > >> Boeing has congressmembers on payroll, so they'll get contracts. > >> It took a huge dust-up in 2002 (?) to keep the gov't from leasing > >> tanker planes from Boeing when it was *much* cheaper to buy them. > > > > Exactly the kind of thing that Airbus means. There's a closer watch on > > that form of intrinsic corruption in Europe. > > > No, in Europe they just directly give them cash. No. Airbus gets repayable loans on which they pay interest. It's an attractive rate of interest for sure that's less than they'd get from banks to be totally fair. Graham
From: Eeyore on 20 May 2007 00:34 "Fred G. Mackey" wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote: > > > >>The two most important reasons for the huge cost differences in the US > >>vs countries like China and India is a place to live and medical care. > > > > Actually it's about basic produce like food and clothing too. > > > > As far as medical care goes, in the UK, the 'socialist' National Health Service that > > gives care to everyone costs about �1200 ($2400) p.a. per head of population > which is > a heck of a lot less than US health care costs, yet the US is forever > resistant to > adopt such a scheme that has much lower costs and overheads. > > > Too many horror stories about National Health. Such as ? I doubt you'll find anything happening here that doesn't happen in the USA too. We hear horror tories about US healthcare too - like how much it costs and how it means some ppl can't afford the most appropriate treatment ! Plus we don't have laws forcing us not to buy cheap generic medicines. Graham
From: Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) on 20 May 2007 00:53
Eeyore wrote: > > Joe the Aroma wrote: > > > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > > Jeffrey Turner wrote: > > >> Eeyore wrote: > > >> > "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote: > > >> > > > >> >>Boeing competes for its military contract sales. > > >> > > > >> > Airbus describes them as 'pork barrel contracts'. > > >> > > >> Boeing has congressmembers on payroll, so they'll get contracts. > > >> It took a huge dust-up in 2002 (?) to keep the gov't from leasing > > >> tanker planes from Boeing when it was *much* cheaper to buy them. > > > > > > Exactly the kind of thing that Airbus means. There's a closer watch on > > > that form of intrinsic corruption in Europe. > > > > > > No, in Europe they just directly give them cash. > > No. Airbus gets repayable loans on which they pay interest. It's an attractive > rate of interest for sure that's less than they'd get from banks to be totally > fair. > So they are being subsidized with low interest government loans? -- "There are some gals who don't like to be pushed and grabbed and lassoed and drug into buses in the middle of the night." "How else was I gonna get her on the bus? Well, I'm askin' ya.", George Axelrod, "Bus Stop" |