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not_the_one

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9. I don't know what I am talking about, but

Reply to hack89 (Reply #7)

Thu Nov 14, 2019, 11:43 AM

Nov 2019

the list seems to all be, except the aircraft/spacecraft listing, products that would be made by several, or many companies.

Not so with jets. One company will benefit (and I don't know what company that is), and amounts to a jobs program for the MIC.

Too bad other areas of the economy can't get that kind of job assistance....

Again, I have no clue of what I speak...

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Ahead of Trump meeting, Erdogan threatens to buy Russian jets [View all] riversedge Nov 2019 OP

Oh come on, hasn't he seen Top Gun? Doesn't he know that bad guys fly Russian jets? Initech Nov 2019 #1

Art of the Deal. TeamPooka Nov 2019 #2

Every authoritarian dictator in the world.... SergeStorms Nov 2019 #3

We are simply weapons purveyors at this point. What else comes close in exports? Evolve Dammit Nov 2019 #4

Weapons are not even in the top 10. hack89 Nov 2019 #7

I don't know what I am talking about, but not_the_one Nov 2019 #9

Boeing commercial jets represent most aircraft sales. Nt hack89 Nov 2019 #11

Right. Not weapons, simply capital investments to build, power and maintain them. LanternWaste Nov 2019 #13

Why is it so hard to accept that we have a massive economy that exports a multitude of products hack89 Nov 2019 #14

Where do you think #'s 1,3,4 and 5 fit in to weapons production? Cuz they do as components. Evolve Dammit Nov 2019 #15

Good question. Not a huge proportion I would think hack89 Nov 2019 #16

Remember.... Turbineguy Nov 2019 #5

let him olddad65 Nov 2019 #6

It was reported in the U.K. - and elsewhere amcgrath Nov 2019 #8

the M$M has no problem opining over the various conspiracy theories not_the_one Nov 2019 #10

Donnie sure knows how to win friends... Blue_Tires Nov 2019 #12