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...middle class has reached critical mass, and not just in Ohio and Michigan. It is an issue that reaches across party lines, which is why John McCain talks about the need to help displaced workers. "This income gap is the biggest issue for me," Bob Currens, a Republican painting contractor who was thinking about voting Democratic-for Obama-for the first time, told me after the church service. His wife Kim joined us and said Bob had been a salaried worker at AK Steel, "and the union was a big problem there. They worked at not working." Eventually there...
...platform most resembles your own? They're very similar on the major issues... In a strange way McCain is actually tougher on military contracting fraud. Do you remember how he almost singlehandedly took on that Boeing $19 billion tanker contract boondoggle? The Democrat candidates aren't talking about military contractor fraud and their records are ones of looking the other way in the Senate. But Obama and Clinton, the reason why they're scrapping on personality issues, 'You used this word, you used that word,' is because they're so similar...
...fight and win against the fleet of airplanes that have been developed and are flying in India, China, and so forth," a claim questioned by many experts. But his view has been reinforced by the companies employing 25,000 workers in 44 states building the F-22 - the prime contractor is aerospace giant Lockheed Martin - and their allies in Congress. That is what is so insidious about these lists: once Congress gets a hold of them, they're used as pile drivers to pound extra billions into the Pentagon budget, generally by lawmakers seeking to fund jobs in their districts...
...next big prize: an Indian Air Force order for 126 multi-role fighter jets that could be worth more than $10 billion. The prospects have Lockheed, the world's biggest defense contractor, and U.S. aerospace giant Boeing salivating along with their Russian and European rivals. "The sector is opening up fast," says Lavina Gupta, Director of Anjani Technoplast, a company based in northern India that makes body armor, helmets and armored vehicles. "People have started looking up towards India. We are good entrepreneurs, we have the talents, it's just that we are now being recognized as a market. Everybody...
...everyone will profit, however. India's bureaucracy still moves slowly, and huge social and infrastructural demands on the country's budget compete with defense spending. Jerry Powlen, Vice President of Integrated Communication Systems for U.S. defense contractor Raytheon, acknowledges that sales growth in India has been "slower than anyone had hoped it would be." But he says the emerging country is crucial for future growth. India "is one of the most important markets for us as a company going forward and the United States wants to foster good relations with India," he says. "It gets better every...