RE: Sao Paulo Contract Approved - ZimmeeHi Zimmee, what I find encouraging about this is that the Brazilians seem big enough to give the contract to a competitor of Embraer.
You might remember how Air Canada saw fit to split an order for regional jets between Bombardier and Embraer a few years ago. It's easy to believe the Brazilians might not have been so open to considering the BBD offer had things been different.
We all benefit when we trade with each other. It's when we start erecting trade barriers in the name of protecting our own jobs that our world gets a lot smaller and we all lose a certain richness in the wide variety of products that the world has to offer.
Slogans like "Buy American" amount to little more than protectionism. How Americans have the audacity to go around the world asking others to purchase their airplanes and hamburers at the same time saying, "...but we really don't want to buy anything from you because we believe in supporting our own..." is more than a little nauseating.
People in other countries have families to feed and they want jobs too. Something like that is all the worse when it comes out of the richest country in the world.