Anonymous wrote:I know his target was Boeing, but Trump really screwed with a lot of people in the Air Force and the DoD Acquisition system. Major new Defense programs/systems/aircraft/ships are developed step by step over an established cycle of milestones to make sure they meet or exceed all the stringent requirements. They do R&D on new capabilities, then they make prototypes, test and evaluate them, work out the bugs, and only then do they move to the next phase. This is not a penny-pinching procurement system that would just buy a commercial aircraft and rebrand it with gold paint, the way Trump operates.

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Anonymous wrote:We can argue the Constitution and Executive Orders issues until the cows come home but NONE of that is relevant here. You cannot make the comparison that OP wants to make. Consider this - based on his tweet, Boeing's stock price dipped temporarily. If I get time, I will look at how Boeing traded volume-wise after his Tweet. If I am a significant Boeing investor or employee, I am pissed. He impacted the stock price with a ill-advised misinformed tweet. He lost people money - at least temporarily. What he has to get is that he is soon to be the POTUS and his words can shake the markets. Tweeting about what he is going to do to certain companies is market manipulation pure and simple. I suspect that he will soon get a nice letter from the SEC and the OGE. If he want to do procurement reform, I am all for it. THIS was not that.

Its a shot across the bow. He knows exactly what he's doing, with this and the Taiwan call. He's telling a lot of folks that business as usual is coming to an end.

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Anonymous wrote:We can argue the Constitution and Executive Orders issues until the cows come home but NONE of that is relevant here. You cannot make the comparison that OP wants to make. Consider this - based on his tweet, Boeing's stock price dipped temporarily. If I get time, I will look at how Boeing traded volume-wise after his Tweet. If I am a significant Boeing investor or employee, I am pissed. He impacted the stock price with a ill-advised misinformed tweet. He lost people money - at least temporarily. What he has to get is that he is soon to be the POTUS and his words can shake the markets. Tweeting about what he is going to do to certain companies is market manipulation pure and simple. I suspect that he will soon get a nice letter from the SEC and the OGE. If he want to do procurement reform, I am all for it. THIS was not that.

Its a shot across the bow. He knows exactly what he's doing, with this and the Taiwan call. He's telling a lot of folks that business as usual is coming to an end.

THis argument would be a lot more plausible if it hadn't turned out that the Taiwan call was arranged by a pro-Taiwan lobbying firm.

And, there's nothing revolutionary about reviewing expensive defense contracts, especially when a new POTUS comes into office. Obama did the same thing with a Lockheed helicopter contract when he came into office. Difference is, he did not do it by denigrating Lockheed in a public way and hurting a US-based company. Instead, his DoD performed a review of the program and ultimately selected a much lower cost contract from Sikorsky.

Anonymous wrote:Paying for overpriced defense contracts in the name of saving US jobs is ridiculous. I have no idea if Boeing is overcharging or not, but as a general approach trying to get a better deal for the US on trade deals, defense contracts, etc. is not a bad approach. Everyone in gov't that ok's these things wants to get a job post retirement with the likes of LM or Boeing - do you really thing they are driving hard bargains?

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Anonymous wrote:We can argue the Constitution and Executive Orders issues until the cows come home but NONE of that is relevant here. You cannot make the comparison that OP wants to make. Consider this - based on his tweet, Boeing's stock price dipped temporarily. If I get time, I will look at how Boeing traded volume-wise after his Tweet. If I am a significant Boeing investor or employee, I am pissed. He impacted the stock price with a ill-advised misinformed tweet. He lost people money - at least temporarily. What he has to get is that he is soon to be the POTUS and his words can shake the markets. Tweeting about what he is going to do to certain companies is market manipulation pure and simple. I suspect that he will soon get a nice letter from the SEC and the OGE. If he want to do procurement reform, I am all for it. THIS was not that.

Its a shot across the bow. He knows exactly what he's doing, with this and the Taiwan call. He's telling a lot of folks that business as usual is coming to an end.

Anonymous wrote:We can argue the Constitution and Executive Orders issues until the cows come home but NONE of that is relevant here. You cannot make the comparison that OP wants to make. Consider this - based on his tweet, Boeing's stock price dipped temporarily. If I get time, I will look at how Boeing traded volume-wise after his Tweet. If I am a significant Boeing investor or employee, I am pissed. He impacted the stock price with a ill-advised misinformed tweet. He lost people money - at least temporarily. What he has to get is that he is soon to be the POTUS and his words can shake the markets. Tweeting about what he is going to do to certain companies is market manipulation pure and simple. I suspect that he will soon get a nice letter from the SEC and the OGE. If he want to do procurement reform, I am all for it. THIS was not that.

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Anonymous wrote:Really? You don't see the difference between the Obama administration passing regulations (subject to full due process, transparency, and appealable to the courts) and Trump retaliating against a single company because its executive stated views he didn't agree with? Seriously?

No, I don't. Obama used Education Dept rules on loans to kill as many for profit colleges as possible. If Trump uses DoD procurement rules to save US jobs, [i][b]I don't see how it's all that different.

I realize the thread has moved well beyond this, but I have to reply to this:

The aerospace industry is consistently one of the best supplier of quality jobs for people without college degrees. You want to be a skilled tradesperson? Become an airplane mechanic or electrical tech for LM or Boeing and you will have a decent, reasonable paying, quality career. How in the universe does hurting Boeing and threatening to cancel one of their soon-to-be major contracts (since, you know, the actual contract doesn't exist yet) help "save US jobs"?

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Anonymous wrote:Really? You don't see the difference between the Obama administration passing regulations (subject to full due process, transparency, and appealable to the courts) and Trump retaliating against a single company because its executive stated views he didn't agree with? Seriously?

No, I don't. Obama used Education Dept rules on loans to kill as many for profit colleges as possible. If Trump uses DoD procurement rules to save US jobs, [i][b]I don't see how it's all that different.

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I'm 19:15, and I don't entirely disagree with this as a general concept. But when even a willing Congress can barely get it together to pass a law, there's a problem. And our government is very much structured to make it extremely difficult to pass laws in a way pretty much no other modern democracy is.

Sorry. That is no excuse. His executive orders were way over the line.

Did you read my first post? I agree it doesn't change the damage to the Constitution wrought by these actions. To me, there's a question of whether we need to revisit the Constitution...not disregard it.

the constitution is fine. it's the obstructionist republicans that need to change. that will take voters.