02-25-2011, 04:58 PM
Carnos Jax wrote:
Grace, here's just one article of many that references a 48000 figure for U.S. jobs created (about the 10th paragraph down) if EADS had one...not sure where you're getting the 500 number from, that seems awfully low.
EADS was saying their contract would "support" thousands of jobs, they never confirmed how many jobs they would actually bring to Alabama, nor how much of the production work would be done in the US. Their claim that they would create the same number of jobs as the American company was never backed up with hard data.
Boeing was very specific in it's jobs number claims, EADS was not.
Calculating how many jobs a particular industry will "support" is an inexact science and frequently overstated, particularly by politicians wanting to take credit for landing a big deal for their state.
Folks in Alabama had become increasingly disillusioned by both EADS and their politicians, and expectations had come down dramatically, except that the mayor had booked the convention center and planned a big victory party - oops.