[amobilebiz]

While the theory of your comment makes complete sense to me, I do have a problem with French (and no offense to the French people here) companies getting my tax dollars. Last I checked (and I could be wrong) Aerospatiale-Dassault was a French company. If U.S. companies are going to be buying corporate jets with my tax dollars I would much rather they buy them from U.S. companies.

[gaius]

The French could equally well object to Dassault buying any components from American companies (such as engines from GE).

[gojomo]

What a fine recipe for recovery: every nation for itself, make companies buy only what's politically-favored, reduce competition, reduce world trade.

(Those were all popular-but-misguided mistakes that made the 1930's depression deeper and longer.)

[lg]

I think the misguided mistake was giving Citigroup too many tax dollars.

[kragen]

While I'm not in favor of the reducing-world-trade argument, I have a hard time with the idea that using tax dollars to buy expensive executive perqs and pay hefty year-end bonuses is going to help the economy recover.