Despite Obama’s constant drum roll of supporting American industry and keeping jobs at home, the DoD is letting Brazil bid on an Air Force contract to develop and build “light attack and armed reconnaissance and training aircraft for countries that have little need or resources for supersonic jet fighters.” This development is despite the fact that China and Iran are big players in Brazil. So now we have to thank this anti-American President for not only subsidizing PETROBRAS, the Brazilian oil industry, but now their defense industry. Most interestingly or better yet I’m willing bet the RHINOS will not capitalize on this particular issue in the upcoming election. However, it will be safe to assume Obama with his usual dead pan gaze and unemotional expression will lie the whole time despite his proclaiming to keep American jobs in America. I would also wonder should Brazil get this contract, will George Soros be poised in the wings ready to profit as he did when Obama guaranteed $2 billion dollars of American taxpayer money for Brazil’s offshore drilling program. It would appear that Obama and his administration rather than represent the American public, prefer to represent the global community – the wreckage of our economy is proof of that. Just my opinion….William McCullough
Can the DoD Trust Brazil with American National Security?
Jamie Daremblum and Seth Cropsey – Pajamas Media, May 31, 2011
Next month, the U.S. Air Force is expected to select a bid for a new aircraft to serve in a counterinsurgency attack role for the U.S. and its foreign partners. It seeks an inexpensive light attack and armed reconnaissance and training aircraft for countries that have little need or resources for supersonic jet fighters. One major competitor for the Air Force contract is the Brazilian company Embraer.
Working with international manufacturers is paramount to promoting stronger international relationships. However, potentially partnering with a country that hosts deep anti-American sentiment is concerning at besWarranted or not, the core of this sentiment stems from troubled trade agreements and Brazil’s ever-differing approach to foreign policy, that, at times, diverges in significant ways from U.S. policy.
The absence of a close knit and significant trade relationship between the United States and Brazil is notable. There have been frequent disputes over subsidies of key agricultural exports. A second reason for Brazil’s “anti-Yanqui” sentiment dates back to the events of the Cold War. This outlook has been intensified both by perceived unfair trade practices after the end of the Cold War and by opposition to U.S. foreign policy following the attacks on September 11.
Many of Brazil’s exports compete directly with American products. Brazil produces and exports coffee, citrus, sugar, beef, and poultry — the same products that the U.S. produces in larger quantities. Although former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso generally supported free trade, there were bitter disputes over subsidies, tariffs, and quotas during the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement of the Americans (FTAA) that took place while he was in office.
These negotiations faltered, and trade disputes continued during President da Silva’s term. In March 2010, Brazil raised tariffs on U.S. cosmetics, appliances, and cars to counter U.S. cotton subsidies. The disagreements and troubled outlook continued.
Read more: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/can-the-dod-trust-brazil-with-american-national-security/
I just hope all the assholes that voted for this dip shit get lost on the way to the polls come 2012
If Brazil can provide a better product, then why shouldn’t they go for it? If the American product is inferior then why sacrifice quality? Can we really blame the government for actually acting in a capitalistic manner? I admit that it’s rather hypocritical of them and we are right to call them on that.
However, it’s not like we never have had foreign technology in national defense. H&K anyone?
In this particular case China and Iran are heavily invested in Brazil. China in particular is looking to dilute our influence in South America. It is safe to assume her espionage agencies are in place to steal any technologies we develop and ship to Brazil. Additionally the currency pirate and international scumbag financier George Soros, Obama’s mooney man. is also invested in their infra-structure development. Why aren’t his funds being invested here, rather than in those progressive websites that are dedicated to a socialist agenda of entitlement and destroying our economic dominence which has been the source of our prosperity. Brazil’s President Lula De Silva is a socialist – a fact known to everyone. So why is our business going to Brazil? Simply, we are being played by every god damned corrupt son of a bitch including Obama, Soros, the IMF, the elites and all the other cockroaches who are feeding at the table of the American people.
As for H&K we’re talking about conventional weapons, weapons that can be duplicated in a garage, not space age technology.
Right on brother. The economic genious in chief is doing what he should be doing, following his blueprint for our destruction, this time by sending our billions to his anti-american cronies. And why not; they really do have “shovel ready” projects. May you and many others enjoy cheaper but better and superior products. You won’t even notice $the 5+ p/gal of gas since you were able to buy the cheaper but better made car freshner hanging off your rear view mirror along with the cheaper but better made fuzzy dice.
Did you defend companies that outsourced because it’s their right in a capitalist nation to draw their labor from where ever they want?
I mean, how much better off would we be if we stopped getting all of our cheap goods from China?
Hopefully the American public will wake up and boycott out sourced products of American companies. Unfortunately the material greed and self interest of Americans, I believe, will sink the American economy in the long term. As for those American companies benefiting from tax breaks by out sourcing I would put tariffs on their products and tax their overseas earnings. That might in the best of all worlds be enough of an incentive to bring those jobs home – but I guess that’s just dreaming.
Forget the RINOS. Dig deep enough and most likely their hands will be found in the till along with the rest of the political elite globalists posing as America firsters. As for our “green” president, he is happily doing business with Brazil even though they have relaxed enviromental standards resulting in further destruction of the Amazon rain forests. Does it make you wonder whether or not the Brazilian taxpayers will be saddled with a REGGIE scam much like the one being implemented here in the Northeast? P.S. Mercifully, here in New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie after sniffing the winds of discontent, has withdrawn his state from this unconscienable tax scheme.