William Black writes:

I think that you may have exagerated that slightly.

Unfortunately, I don't think I have. I'm regularly amazed by the extent to
which government interferes with everything in most of Europe.

Does the President of the United States appear at the launch of a new civilian
aircraft in the U.S.?

And Boeing and its hidden subsidies isn't?

No, it isn't. That's why it has been around for so long. What "hidden"
subsidies do you have in mind?

The big maarket for the A380 will almost certainly be the Far East where
very large numbers of people want to fly reasonably large distances and
economic expantion will allow them to do so very soon.

In which case an emphasis on developing smaller airports in the U.S. isn't
likely to be a conspiracy to help Boeing, contrary to the original assertion
that I addressed.

We live in a world where 20% of the world's population lives in two
countries and those two countries are experiencing economic growth at
phenominal rates.

And they are exhausting resources at phenomenal rates. Unless they control
their populations, the bubble will eventually burst, and it won't be that far
in the future.

What US company operates without government interference?

Essentially all of them. The President of France intervened to choose the
color of the roof of a building at Disneyland Paris. Can you imagine the
President of the United States intervening to select a color for a building at
Walt Disney World?

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