Get your story right IO, quote: with the foreign, government-subsidized competition breathing down its neck.
Isn't there a certain company in Seattle who uses military money to develop commercial aircraft variations?? Things like a cargo door on the 737.. Isn't there a state funded organisation who is doing research into aviation for commercial companies called NASA or something..
In Europe the only aid is that the governements have given is loans ie things you repay..
by the way: yes the NG is crap..