Honeywell In trouble with the Feds Over Made In China Parts For The F-35

Even when there is a Federal Law prohibiting jobs from being sent to Communist Red China corporations still find a way to thumb their nose at the idea. 

National security…They don’t care.  Wasting tax payers money….They don’t care.

The F-35 was supposed to save taxpayers money.  It went from saving money to being the most expensive weapons system on the books.  And it is still not ready yet. 

Years behind schedule and Billions over budget and now we find out parts are coming from China. 

China the country it is being build to defend against.

The idea behind the F-35 was to make one plane that all the branches of the defense department could use. 

Instead of the Air Force developing a plane, and the Navy developing a plane, and the Marines developing a plane, they would instead pool their resources and develop one plane that met all their needs.  The shared development costs, and the high production numbers would drive down costs.  That was the idea. 

The reality is making one plane that meets every ones needs is a lot more complicated. A plane that can take off and land on a carrier, and the same basic plane that can vertically take off like a Harrier is not an easy thing.  Add in all the outsourcing to 1300 different suppliers and it quickly deteriorated into a giant mess. 

They spread the manufacturing work into as many congressional districts as they could hoping more congressman would defend the project from the budget axe.  The reality is the more suppliers meant more companies looking to profit at the government trough.  This caused spiraling costs, missed deadlines, and failed deliveries. 

Today what you have is a giant boondoggle of wasted money.

The solution to Honeywell making parts in China is to send the FBI over to Honeywell Headquarters and storm the building.  March the CEO in handcuffs out of the building wearing an orange prison jumpsuit.  Make sure he is shackled from head to toe.  Invite the media to be there with cameras rolling.  Then toss him into Federal Prison.  Take the video tape of the raid and send it to the other 1299 suppliers of the F-35.  That should take care of the manufacturing in China problem.

Of course that won’t happen because the CEO of Honeywell is David Cote who is a great friend of President Obama.  If you look at the invitation list from any of Obamas state dinners (including the one he had for Communist Red China) David Cotes name is always present.

It is still a nice thought.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-12/honeywell-said-probed-by-justice-on-trade-controls-reuters-says.html