Thanks to the WA State Labor Council for organizing this rally. My late dad was a laid-off Boeing engineer of the 70s who turned to the bottle when things got tough. My thoughts are with everyone facing this distress today.

@1
My thoughts are with you. Not my dad, but several of my male family members turned to the bottle, well, more like the 12oz can, but still, I get your drift about alcoholism. Myself, I can't drink too much when drinking alone, but if at a wedding or a Christmas party, I've been quite an embarrassing drunk.

Stay home if you plan to wear a mask and block traffic.

What are the economics of keeping these jobs here vs keeping the 8-some billion dollars in taxes? Is there more or less collective benefit to state residents as a whole for keeping Boeing by throwing piles of money at them vs. throwing piles of money at stuff our state already needs money for?

5, the point is it's not a choice. We're losing the 8-some billion dollars AND the jobs. There is no collective benefit going on at all.

What do airlines have to say about this? The morning news notes that three airlines are ordering 225 planes. Would it be a good idea to appeal to the clients by pointing out that Boeing is cheapening their product and risking delays by threatening to use inexperienced cheaper labor? Southwest also uses Boeing jets exclusively, and I think they have good relations with their unions. Would it be worthwhile appealing to them, too, to put pressure on Boeing?

$17 loaves of bread
Gourmet "art walks"
And most of all $575,000 houses do not go with "working people"

What part of Overpriced Washington State do you not understand?

What @4 said.

Wear a bright orange day-glo mask for traffic visibility instead!

Safety first!

Why all the gloom and doom? Sawant is going to take over Boeing's factories and retool them for jet-powered mass transit, so it's all good.

So Bailo, you fuckstick, what's keeping you from moving to a prize hovel in SC since you hate the NW so much.
Also, let's hear more pitiful whining about your alleged mistreatment on Slog. You fuckstick.

The Governor and the Legislature (and this includes past Governors and leglislators) shouldn't have put the bulk of their tax break eggs in the basket of Aerospace and IT. They should have spread the corporate welfare largesse to other sectors--Financial, like NY State does, energy, more biotech and what little alternative manufacturing is left in America, to employ Seattle area residents so as to prevent the potentially large drain to the revenue coffers and to career opportunities when one major employer of one the state's small clusters of an employment base leaves.

but what about the gates and bezos foundations work with the walton foundation to privatize public schools?

@11 Didn't you hear? Bailo lives in Glorious Kent, WA: Land of Milk and Honey™ , so it's all good for him.

14 -> 11

Now this is what I need.

A personal reply assistant for buzzing nitwits.

@4: Yes, Boeing can pull its entire operation out of here leaving tens of thousands jobless and collapsing our economy while getting the largest tax break in US history... but don't you dare block traffic.

What a putz.

@7:

Considering all of the reported orders come from arab oil states, where outsourced immigrant labor is cheaper than sand, I have a sad feeling that approach would fall on deaf ears, at least so far as those particular carriers go.

@18 FTW