Duncan Hunter is fighting for American jobs again! The Air Forces proposal to buy foreign-made aircraft is treasonous . This is unacceptable use of taxpayer dollars, and an insult to all American workers. This is not the Air Force our patriots fought for. Our own military taking a hand in destroying our manufacturing base? Our own military supporting a foreign manufacturer? If the brass in the United States Air Force want to fly the Air bus, how about joining the French Air Force!!!!

I salute you Duncan!

Hunter: Northrop Grumman-EADS Data Shows Air Force Decision Would Cause Substantial Job Loss in the United States

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Hunter: Northrop Grumman-EADS Data Shows Air Force Decision Would Cause Substantial Job Loss in the United States

Washington D.C. - House Armed Services Committee Ranking Republican Duncan Hunter (R-CA) today criticized the Air Force's decision to award the KC-45A tanker contract to Northrop Grumman-European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS). In the following statement, Hunter points to the negative impact the Air Force's decision will have on American workers and local communities:

"Northrop Grumman-EADS claims that the Airbus tanker will be made domestically. However, by Northrop Grumman-EADS' own data, only 58 percent of the new plane and its components will be built in the United States.

"Northrop Grumman-EADS further claims that 27,000 new jobs will be created domestically.

"Comparatively, Boeing's 776 tanker is 85 percent built in the United States.

"The direct impact of the Air Force's decision is not an increase of 27,000 new jobs, as Northrop Grumman-EADS claims, but a loss of 12,570 American jobs.

"Furthermore, local communities throughout America will lose a total of one hundred thousand jobs over the period of the contract since billions of American taxpayer dollars will now flow to Europe."