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Regarding the Airbus question, which Mr. Hillyer believes is settled by this comment: "Northrop is going to assemble the plane here in the U.S."

Point missed completely. It's about capital. Northrop might assemble the plane in the U.S., but the capital accrued in the process would be going to Europe.

Heaven knows we need the capital in the U.S. Why allow the owners of Airbus to expand their manufacturing capability at the expense of ours? For the life of me, I can't figure that one out.

Moreover, we must not allow any of our essential military hardware to be put at the mercy of a foreign country. It would be hard to name any other piece of military hardware so absolutely essential to our ability to protect our country and interests than an air tanker.

Northrop is a corporate shill. And you know what shills do for and with your money, don't you?
-- A. C. Santore

THE CHICAGO WAY
Re: The Prowler's Stimulating the Stimulus:

Among the stimulus funds appropriated were funds to help military families, who move at the government's behest, cope with housing sale losses. Many families moved when prices were high (and expected to move even higher), then the bubble burst and the sales of homes at great losses provided significant enough impact that Congress included the military in the stimulus appropriation. While the unions and ACORN entities claimed their royal shares first, the military families, many of whom suffered great losses while fighting on two war fronts, have not received the appropriated funds, designed to mitigate the losses they suffered.

For my money, the military, whose sacrifices have been so very great, should have been first at the dinner table, but I am a military mom, one who waited at home praying, as our son left some 9 times to go to the front lines. So, when our son and his wife needed to sell their Florida home, before leaving for a new PCS (permanent change of duty station), they were in shock to find out the home they had bought was, at the very least, over $100,000 differential in current appraisal. But they put it on the market and had me praying for a buyer. One came, then the matter of making up the loss fell as a problem to be solved.

Like other families, we chose to help our son and family. He has never asked for one thing since he left home at 18 to attend USAFA (the Air Force Academy) in Colorado. We felt that helping his young family (with one child and another on the way) was needed, so we helped with a loan. Still, they held hope, since early summer for this appropriations and the ability to limit their losses. And they wait, and they wait, and they wait.

I have called our own Congressman for answers but cannot seem to get anyone in his office to follow up to my questions, concerning when the military's chances of being helped will arrive. Perhaps his office has no answer but as Americans who say they are concerned about the sacrifices our military makes in our behalf, we should be doing more collectively to let our President know that military is far more deserving of funds, than any group of ACORN.

We have never expected a thing from the government in our own lives and perhaps hoping that our government would provide assistance in this manner, for the military was a fruitless idea to begin with. I urged our son not to apply, but after much thought and prayer, realized that if anyone deserved assistance in keeping their loan debt, due to military assignment, from being large and looming in their young family's life, he was right to put his paperwork in asking for said funds.

That the Obamas feel they need to pay back those who got them elected but ignore our fighting men and their families is despicable. But then, as they say, this is the Chicago way, you have to do them a favor before being on the repay list. It is clear the military has no such place in this President's agenda.
-- Beverly Gunn
East Texas Rancher

GETTING THE DATE WRONG
Re: Larry Thornberry's Revenge of the Norwegian Nerds:

When I first heard the news about Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize I had to go check my calendar. I needed to reassure myself that it was indeed October 9th -- and not April 1st!
-- Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia