Over the years, it has been my privilege to own a few airplanes. Under the right circumstances, they are tremendous business tools.
All but one of those aircraft were proudly manufactured in Wichita, Kansas by Americans who were skilled machinists, and held the high level skills you need to manufacture precision equipment which flies. Wichita is kind of a heartland aviation manufacturing Mecca. And, as you might imagine, times there are not particularly good.
Several of those aircraft were manufactured by Beechcraft, or as it is currently known, Hawker Beechcraft. They are the Lincolns and Cadillacs of small airplanes. They are the finest airplanes I have ever owned and you would be hard pressed to find anyone who owns or has owned a Beechcraft product who would disagree.
Except Barack Obama.
He’s more worried about sending our hard earned tax dollars to Brazil because, as he would put it, we need to recognize that we are in a global economy even at the expense of American manufacturing jobs.
Last week, despite the fact that our Air Force and its allies already own about 750 Beech AT-6 trainers, Obama’s henchmen in the Departments of Defense and Commerce sent hundreds of millions of tax dollars to Brazil’s Embraer to buy the Brazilian company’s light attack aircraft for our “friends” in Afghanistan.
Privately, our friends in the Department of Defense will tell you it was all politics.
Publicly, their spokespeople say that the contest “was conducted in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations” and that the evaluation of the aircraft “was fair, open and transparent.”
For the record, the highly skilled air forces which fly the Embraer aircraft are Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Colombia.
Now there’s a recommendation for you.
The Dominican Republic’s flyboys like it so we should spend a billion dollars with our “friends” in Brazil to buy them for our “friends” in Afghanistan.
Only Barack Obama could allow that logic to prevail. And as for our highly skilled manufacturers and their employees in Wichita? Screw them.
Between this and the Obama administration saying no to the Keystone XL pipeline which directly affects the same area of the nation, the term “stunningly stupid” from Newt Gingrich is very descriptive.
This is a President who is far worse than Jimmy Carter was in 1980.
Carter was merely a deer in the headlights.
Obama is an unindicted co-conspirator with the forces who would like to tear our economy to shreds because they see the free market economy as a threat to government authority.
And the result?
Best put, again, by Gingrich.
Obama is the “food-stamp President.” Because he truly has put more Americans on food stamps than any other President in history.
While Mitt Romney certainly does have plenty of private sector experience, the difference between what he could do to Barack Obama on the national stage and what Gingrich—albeit with all his baggage—can do is stark.
Gingrich is capable of jamming stunningly stupid actions such as those I’ve described above down the President’s throat in a manner which leaves no doubt in the minds of the American public as to how the issue will be framed.
Romney is a good guy but has a bad habit of allowing his opponents to frame the issues.
Yes, they both have baggage, but in a well thought out campaign, not nearly the mountain of baggage that Obama has been piling up since January 20, 2009.
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Obama’s “stupid” moves? They are Obama ‘s DELIBERATE moves. The congenitally unemployed make very dependable Democrat voters, as they DEPEND upon the federal government for food stamps, welfare and public housing. And Barack wants to create just as many as humanly possible.
This thug and his owners/handlers are deliberately destroying their hated United States, while pumping millions, perhaps billions of tax dollars to George Soros investments in Brazil. There is NOTHING stupid or accidental about it.,
Everything I have seen on Facebook about the Super Tucano, from Embraer was that it flew circles around the Hawker AT-6, was easier and cheaper to maintain, and was a generally ‘tough little bird’. It ‘bested’ the AT-6 in a head to head trial by the AF, I understood.
American built may be the best, but not necessarily in everything. We have NOT concentrated on close air support aircraft since WWII, and justifiably have fallen behind the curve. this would seem to prove it.
Uh…not exactly. The specs were written in the same way that Motorola frequently writes specs for police radios and the trials were anything but even handed.
On top of that, why would you want to bjuy planes from a country which is in bed with IraN?
Interesting comment, far more reasonable than mindless rants on the Obama matter.
Whether the “touch little bird” or the American made airplane is better is beside the point in 2012. How dare him spend money outside the United States, even if we are a global world (not) – where is he getting this money, and why isn’t he first and foremost putting the people here first in jobs? Ideally, if he’d get out of the way, we’d have jobs in a new york minute…but this president does whatever he can do to bring America down. Newt is truly the only one who knows more about politics than Obama does – he’s just a useful tool – doing what he’s told. He’s good at speeches but not long on facts…Newt will make him do that yowling but this time they won’t want him on American Idol.
Listen up Fred Weinburg!!! Haven’t you been paying attention to what Obama has been doing for the past three years???? It is so interesting how so many people, people who write these columns do not know or refuse to believe that Obama knows exactly what he is doing to corrupt the jobs market.
Maybe this will help you to understand something about Obama Fred. You listening??? If a duck looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quakes like a duck, then one should figure on it being a DUCK, right?
OK, let me walk you through the very first thing Obama did when he was in office the first year. Remember the BP oil spill in the gulf? Obama waited…OK….Obama waited for over 90+ days to sit down and talk with President and CEO Tony Hayward of BP petroleum about how he was going to help clean up the gulf shores. Now, even the most blatant Progressive Liberal would have to ask the question….Would former President George W. Bush do what Obama did in this time of crisis? NO, he would not have waited one day before working on this terrible explosion that killed several workers. Obama was playing politics again and waited like he have been doing for three years to do the right thing.
Now, fast forward to the border issue…Same thing here by not enforcing the US/Mexican borders. When the states governors have begged Obama to help them, what does he do…He sues the states for getting on the issues, saying it is suppose to be in Federal hands. What???
How about the pipeline that could bring many jobs into America…He vetoes the bill. Why? Politics.
Now, I think I have given you a few things to base an educated guess on, that Obama is doing what is best for fulfilling his Global Socialist agenda until after he wins a second term in office. If he wins, he will really reduce America to rubble by sending all American jobs overseas. Still think he is just making “stupid” moves, Fred??
No, there is a point one has to say that Obama is trying to destroy America. How much do you know about Obama Fred? Due to your lack of understanding, I would have to say you don’t know much or you would not have posted such a uneducated comment.
Obama’s moves are not stupid.
He deliberately causes unemployment to make the saps more susceptible to his promising them the world with a fence around it. He surreptitiously holds the dog back while dangling meat before it.
Like Lenin rejoicing in a famine because it makes the serfs more amenable to revolution.
Obama is a Leninist, utterly ruthless and indifferent to human suffering in his drive for totalitarian control.