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You guys could (and should) do an article every day about how the Seattle Times's 'journalism' promotes the agenda of everyone but city residents.
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Boeing's not a plane company. Pfizer isn't a drug company. They're all money companies.
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Detropia is a must see Doc. about what happens to a city when Unions get greedy.

South Carolina, and other states where Boeing is buying land top build new facilities is in direct response to union demands. They're gonna demand themselves out of jobs within 10 yrs.
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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." Ed Abbey. 'For profit' is a deadly disease.
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@3 And when that happens, it's going to be, what, poetic justice?

"when unions get greedy" he posts under an article about Boeing Executives plotting a 14 billion dollar stock buyback.

Get your irony gauge checked, laddie.
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@5 heh... ;)
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@3 - Remember the 8-hour workday? Salaries that kept pace with inflation AND productivity? The end of child labor? The no-longer-machine-gunning strikers to death? Those were all union wins. What happens when unions are so thoroughly crushed that they can't obtain their fair share of corporate profits... profits that workers created for the company?

Shall we go back to no-health-care? 60-70 hour work weeks? Double-income AND kids and still unable to afford rent? We need to escape from the 18th century...

Boeing should be a) a non-profit, and b) collectively owned.
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Buybacks do not increase share price.

Fucking idiot...

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I work for a company that makes automated manufacturing equipment for Boeing. The system we are installing right now requires almost no human intervention to assemble, fasten, and inspect entire airplane wings. In Japan there are entire factories cranking out thousands of units a day with one or two humans just sitting around doing nothing. This transition to automation is accelerating rapidly through all sectors of the economy. It represents a conversion of labor to pure capital. There is no essential humanity under capitalism. Where will humans go when capital has forgone the need for human exploitation? When are all these conservative and libertarian idiots going to realize that all the white male privilege in the world is not enough to save them?

Also @8 a majority consensus of economists would disagree. You might want to re-examine your sources.

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