This is part of it. Its also part of the reason why Airbus/EADS quite successfully builds bits of aircraft all over Europe (and even proposed expansions of operations in Alabama as part of their bid for USAF tankers)
Also, it may surprise the article author to learn that there are outside specialists who have capabilities that Boeing couldn't effortlessly replicate in Seattle. Italy and Sweden certainly don't have low labour costs and they don't have much of a domestic market for long range airliners either.
Ultimately Boeing's logistical cockups have more to do with the overall ambition and complexity of the project than cost cutting.
Airbus's distributed manufacturing is more about pork-barrel politics, it's spread around the countries that own shares in the airbus consortium
Ironically Several of the components of the 7e7 are made in europe by Airbus suppliers. The undercarriage, tail and bits of the fuselage are made in the same plants that are building them for airbus.
AFAIK the only certified engines at launch are Rolls-Royce
Also, it may surprise the article author to learn that there are outside specialists who have capabilities that Boeing couldn't effortlessly replicate in Seattle. Italy and Sweden certainly don't have low labour costs and they don't have much of a domestic market for long range airliners either.
Ultimately Boeing's logistical cockups have more to do with the overall ambition and complexity of the project than cost cutting.