re: Boeing & Lockheed look to move fighter jet production to india.

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Will Boeing and Lockheed open a call center in the U.S. to deal with technical problems the Indians encounter?

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Everyone will use the name Apu.

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Everyone will use the name Apu.

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Or India can do what they planned on doing and buy Migs or the Eurofighter instead.

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Yes, yes they can....and so what if they do? Their buying MIGS would not be possible if we hadn't kept them and Pakistan from one another's throat for the last 40 years or so....they would probably have no choice but to fly MIGS if they flew anything at all because they would both be either Russia or Chinese today. Trump says he is going to insist that they pay for that kind of protection. We will see. I don't how he plans to do so with plans to increase military spending because the strength of the US Military abroad is the source of that protection and with more money that strength will only grow.....but we will see. He is saying the right things...we will see if he is capable of pulling it off...the cocksucker got elected when no one thought he could....

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Hillary was front and center in hawking military sales while Secretary.

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I have no doubt...as have all Secretaries of State since time out of mind...yet we somehow suffer under the delusion that there is such a thing as a free market....

In effect, Trump will be inflating the cost of producing the Military which he professes to rebuild and make better than ever before. That inflation (inflated money/increased National Debt) will be kept in the hands of OUR Citizens, who will in turn spend it on more stuff...made in OUR Nation. The economy expands, income taxes collected rises (somewhat offsetting Deficit)...while the Debt likely increases. Government credit bubble.

How this works out is way over my head. I don't think anybody knows.

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They are paying for their antiquated F-16s.
How many military installations do we have in India and POHKistan?

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We don't need bases to provide protection my friend. We have weapons that can be deployed from all over the world....and we have personnel in India and in Pakistan...the fact that there is a US Military on the planet is enough to prevent Russia or China from making a move that they really don't want to make in the first place....the knowledge that if they make said move the US will react and the US is not a small consideration keeps them from doing so. India and Pakistan BOTH enjoy that protection...leaders from both nations have told their citizens for years that they can't invade their neighbor because the US will intervene OR they don't have to worry about an invasion because the US will intervene...meanwhile Western companies have invested trillions of dollars in both nations providing domestic tranquility of a sort in both places and the only way that capital would have ever considered doing so is with some assurance that the US Military will be a stablizing force in the region and the world. It doesn't require bases...it requires a presence in the space between the ears...

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Well then my friend the world owes us for that protection not just these two little ole nuclear powers.

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ABsolfrickinglutely!!!! I ain't singling out India and Pakistan (neither of which would be nuclear powers had we not kept them from one another's throat). I don't think our new president has singled any single nation out either...I think (I may be wrong) that he has said all of our allies are going to have to pay up or accidents may happen (I know that aint what he said but his coming from New Jersey he couldve LOL).


We have been subsidizing the world's manufacturers since the end of the second world war....the fact that we provide something of a stablizing force in the world keeps markets open and makes trade of any sort possible. We have done this because US companies benefitted and before technology made it possible to eliminate US workers US workers benefitted....but those workers have taken all they are willing to take...and fully expect Trump to fulfill his campiagn promise to bring jobs back and make our allies pay their share of the bill. And I think Trump intend to do so....I think he is going to have a hard time because the system is entrenched and he he has already said he would increase military spending which will make his asking for payment from our allies fall on deaf ears. But he tapped into workers needs and got elected...I am willing to overlook social security, medicare, the EPA...all of that will take care of itself....if he will fulfill his promise to tariff products, ask for payment from our allies and lower or eliminate (my words, not his) corporate taxes....those 3 things will make American labor strong like it should be and they will then have time to focus on things like shoring social security and the EPA....like Labor did in the first place!

You brainless idiot. This was Obama's deal from the beginning. How dumb can one person be?

ALL of the tooling is owned by the USAF, so.... it appears to me parts made at Air Force plant no.4 will be shipped to India and assembled there.