Open Letter to the Head of Boeing

Mr. W. James McNerney, Jr.

Chairman, President, and CEO

The Boeing Co.

Dear Mr. McNerney:

One of your company's radio ads proclaims that an advantage of Boeing's NewGen tanker over Airbus's rival product is that, being made in America, the NewGen tanker creates lots of jobs for Americans.  But your ad also boasts that the NewGen tanker costs less to own and operate than does Airbus's tanker.

If you honestly believe that using lots of labor to produce a product is a benefit bestowed on society...