So, Bush's Defense Department gives a $40 to $100 billion tanker contract to the European firm EADS. In doing so, it shunned Boeing, which bid on the contract. The Bush administration claimed that 25,000 jobs would be created in Alabama and other southern states. Far more jobs—44,000—would have been created had Boeing received the contract, with more than 300 suppliers in 40 states benefiting. The 25,000 jobs Bush claims the contract creates involve far lower-paying jobs assembling parts made overseas. And they're not union jobs.