Award contract to Americans

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By Stephen McAfee | Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:44 PM CDT | () comments

All of the surveys I have seen regarding the issue most Americans are concerned about say the economy is the number one concern.

The Air Force has just said that it plans to award a multi-billion dollar contract to a French company to build refueling planes instead of giving that contract to an American company. I have heard little reaction from the the public on this and not much from the politicians.

The Democratic candidates say that they would stop NAFTA if they were President, so why don’t they jump on this issue? Not only is this contract going to cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars and millions of jobs, we also are not going to get the taxes returned to the coffers from income or as Social Security.

I would think that the first Presidential candidate who publicly states that as commander in chief of the they would fire any officer associated with awarding a contract to a foreign country, especially one that stabs us in that back every time they get a chance, like France, would get overwhelming support from the voters in this upcoming election.

Stephen McAfee

Rock Island