Picture that $1,000,000 median per King County house while driving through Auburn and Enumclaw

@2, that text caught my eye too. “Headquarters” is a bunch of management suits, right? Or are they organized card carrying union members? In which case we say thank a union rep for bargaining your relocation package. Seattle is Boeing HQs ex-girlfriend. Let’s not make it awkward by public pining over the guy who walked out on us years ago.

@3,

Don't nobody want you to "blindly vote Democrat."

We want you to vote Democrat in the interest of your fellow citizens and for the future of society at large, while also continuing to call attention to the many and infuriating flaws of the larger two-party system and governmental structure that forces you to advocate for glaringly flawed candidates in the noble interest of your fellow citizens and bettering society.

Sure. The specter is haunting the world. In a Ghostbusters kind of way.

@11
how ya gonna
Concentrate Wealth
by paying your Fair Share?

@10 -- can we not teach our
Prisoners to put together
Airplane parts? how
Hard can it Be?

if they can Lego
they can Learn
to Earn their
Keep.*

*Plus:
PROFITs!

Boeing moved it's office because there was a management theory at the time (popularized by GE's Jack Welch) that management should be physically removed from interacting with workers. The idea is that if management is half a continent away they won't let silly things like personal relationships with workers interfere with dispassionate business decisions. In other words, it's hard to shut down the factory and outsource the labor if your daughter is on a select soccer team with the worker's kids.... But it turns out this business theory - even if it makes life easier for executives - is stupid. Having management disconnected from design and manufacturing is NOT good for quality control. It's not necessarily an indictment of capitalism writ large, but it IS an indictment of Capitalists who want to avoid looking at the consequences of their decisions.

"... an indictment of Capitalists
who want to avoid looking at the
consequences of their decisions."

which is why we have
Gated Communities.

The move to Chicago was made, in large part, to pacify the acquired components of McDonnell Douglas. And reassure them that they would not be second fiddle in a Seattle-centric commercial aviation company. In hind sight, the first move should have been to the DC area.

@9: but you are corrupt. so, so corrupt.

"The corporation moved to your city to get away from unionized labor."

Is Charles under the impression Boeing's executives are unionized? The company moved it's corporate headquarters, not its manufacturing facilities.

This is a great reason to build nationwide high speed passenger and freight rail.

That's the future.

Planes are the past.

@7, @18: For Charles, Boeing really has become this decade's Amanda Knox, hasn't it? At least in this case, his obsession seems somewhat less creepy, even if he still gets his basic facts wrong by the bucketload.

Nader's the same way
you should see how Upset
he got when his young Niece
plummeted outta the Sky in one
of Boeing's finest.

boeing's under the Deluslion
that their sole Stakeholders
are Mgmt & Shareholders
& squeezing every Last
Dime outta its workers
& the Citizenry. our
Biggest Exporter
& it's All About
Profiteering

Corps gotta Re-invest
in the Country they Occupy

or what's the
bloody Fucking Point?
Harvesting the Citizenry
is a Dead End road for US

tho 'repubs' have made that
exactly their Business Model

hell alls we need
is another Planet
and Then we can
Destroy This One

but Not til