Edie,
What exactly is your point? That those jobs (and taxes) would not exist if UPS and Fedex would use EU registered aircrafts? Fact remains that EU operators do not have the same rights in the US as the US operators have in Europe.
My point is only that UPS is an economic giant and that pilots are a very small piece of the puzzle. Only just over 1/2 % of UPS employees are pilots. Politicians look at the overall economic impact and if you look back at history, it is when UPS ordered 53 A-300s that European flying suddenly was expanded. I understand where you are coming from, but until a common European passport is issued for Europeans, I am pretty sure that US bilaterals are with individual European countries and not with the EU. Until that is changed, calling intra-Europe flying cabotage is incorrect and just emotional pandering.