I have lived in the Seattle area for many decades and I remember when Boeing was buying entirely from local aerospace contractors.

Since then all those local contractors have closed down, their high-paying aerospace jobs having been “outsourced” to China.

True, Boeing is beginning to bring assembly jobs back, but only after the incredible disaster of its “plastic” plane showed them they cannot properly control the manufacturing of their product in China and expect things not to go wrong.

There is a good side to this, however, since China has taken the opportunity to learn from Boeing how to construct airplanes, and now they have a burgeoning aircraft industry of their own.

Obama using Boeing as an example of how we should proceed in bringing manufacturing jobs to the US shows that Obama hasn’t a clue as to what he is talking about.