When the going gets tough…
Washington’s decision to buy 8 zillion Airbus air tankers in March (okay, it was the Air Force’s decision) wasn’t enough state-sponsored subsidy for the mega-ultra-giant European airplane maker, it seems. Now the greedy, hyperventilating technocrats at the company's helm want more respectable European subsidies, too.
Airbus chief executive Tom Enders has just renewed calls for “a level playing field” for Airbus in terms of the state aid it receives compared to what their evil American rival Boeing gets who, as we all know, receives way too much state support by building airplanes of hate and not those of understanding and Weltfrieden (world peace) like Airbus does. Recent Air Force deal or not, I mean.
At the same moment, the chief executive of Airbus parent EADS Louis Gallois opened up a second front in the valiant battle against Boeing by loudly whining for more state aid, too. The German government aerospace spokesman attending the spectacle quickly showed understanding yet again and dried Gallois' tears and added that everybody knows how very “fairly funded” EADS already is but just because that is the case doesn’t mean that it won’t be even more fairly funded in the future.
An unemployed European economist following all the ruckus has suggested that EADS and Airbus should concentrate more upon building and selling an aircraft that will actually bring in money (and fly, of course) instead of worrying so much about state bailouts all the time, but nobody was listening and who cares because that’s probably how this guy got unemployed in the first place.
„Wir wollen wieder faire Wettbewerbsbedingungen schaffen zum allerersten Mal überhaupt.“
Airbus chief executive Tom Enders has just renewed calls for “a level playing field” for Airbus in terms of the state aid it receives compared to what their evil American rival Boeing gets who, as we all know, receives way too much state support by building airplanes of hate and not those of understanding and Weltfrieden (world peace) like Airbus does. Recent Air Force deal or not, I mean.
At the same moment, the chief executive of Airbus parent EADS Louis Gallois opened up a second front in the valiant battle against Boeing by loudly whining for more state aid, too. The German government aerospace spokesman attending the spectacle quickly showed understanding yet again and dried Gallois' tears and added that everybody knows how very “fairly funded” EADS already is but just because that is the case doesn’t mean that it won’t be even more fairly funded in the future.
An unemployed European economist following all the ruckus has suggested that EADS and Airbus should concentrate more upon building and selling an aircraft that will actually bring in money (and fly, of course) instead of worrying so much about state bailouts all the time, but nobody was listening and who cares because that’s probably how this guy got unemployed in the first place.
„Wir wollen wieder faire Wettbewerbsbedingungen schaffen zum allerersten Mal überhaupt.“
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