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Oh it’s gone further than that. Would that they still spaced their concern out to the quarterly future of the company.

We are now in the realm of decisions made to affect the stock trade price on a DAILY basis. The founding and future of any traded company starts and ends with the bell on Wall street.

Boeing has been to busy with the bottom line and micromanaging its work force. They neglected the R&D. They lost.

That being said, I still think that Boeing and Airbus should have been told that the Airforce wanted a larger tanker.

I think Todd Tiahrt is correct. The process was flawed far more than anything Boeing did or did not do.

This “bid” by Airbus will not be met.

Airbus will miss deadlines.

Airbus will have huge cost over runs.

Such is the history of Airbus.

The Airforce has bought a promise from a company with no experience with this particular military need, from a company with a bad track record.

The Pentagon went out of their way to avoid the appearance of favorable treatment of Boeing.

Either airplane would probably do the job. And the sinking dollar v. the rising Euro guarantees there will be cost overruns above and beyond all the usual cost overruns that come with military contracts.

But one of the small stories people have ignored is how Boeing technology has been hitting far short of the mark lately. They talk a good game, but their Virtual Fence contract along America’s southern border simply crashed on take-off.

The deal probably was settled when the Airbus group actually built a new prototype fuel-delivery system, compared to Boeing sending in salesmen who waved their arms and promised to come up with something.

A good friend was recruited by Airbus during the bidding process. She didn’t take the job but she came away very impressed with how that company was approaching the project. (She was approached by Boeing, too — she’s that good). She said it was like an intramural high school team vs. the Boston Celtics.

As huge an enterprise as Boeing is, it’s like the canary in the coal mine; a warning that the American way of doing business for be past two or three decades is a house of cards.

Corporations have come to think in terms of the next quarter’s stock dividends, the long-term health of the company (or, for that matter, the economy) be damned.

From Bear Stearns to your everyday e-Trade day player, the American economy has been reduced to a get-in-quick-and-get-out-when-you’re-ahead mindset. That might be a good strategy if you’re a card shark, but it’s a pretty weak foundation for a nation’s economy.