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To: tejek who wrote (753188)	11/16/2013 4:55:51 PM
From: miraje	5 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Joe Btfsplk joseffy longnshort MichaelSkyy Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583362

Boeing, a shithole of a capitalist company That "shithole", as you call it, provides many tens of thousands of well paying jobs, both directly and indirectly, as it builds the planes that connect the peoples of the world. Edward Ferguson, who works on flight tests for commercial aircraft. “I’ve been on many strikes to get what we got. And that's why Boeing is seriously thinking of packing up and leaving Washington State. I don't blame their management getting fed up and tired of that shit, one bit. The machinists are a bunch of greedy bastards who don't realize which side of the toast the butter is on. Strike after strike, they've screwed themselves, as well as numerous small business subcontractors around the Puget Sound and elsewhere, who depend upon Boeing for the majority of their income. And you, comrade, can join them marching down at the unemployment office, singing "Solidarity Forever" as they wail about the unfairness of it all. Or perhaps "Don't know what you've got, 'til it's gone" would be a more appropriate theme song for these future unemployed numbskulls... You socialist pukes make me sick. Anyone who has viewed the damage, death and destruction that that vile statist ideology has caused, over the last century, and still supports it, is either a parasite, a stupid fool, or just purely evil..

To: tejek who wrote (753188)	11/16/2013 4:59:09 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583362

Boeing, a shithole of a capitalist company I have family and friends retired or near from Boeing. Those in the Machinists Union were taught skills by Boeing that allowed them to make a living far beyond what other alternatives would have offered. Those retired enjoy a standard of living well beyond that of their less fortunate peers. Their earnings have spread to others in the area. My SIL and oldest friend are convinced they do/did well only because of their stupid little god they call collective bargaining. Mad delusions persist even among those better than yourself. Tell me, O Wizard, how they'd have done better.

To: tejek who wrote (753188)	11/21/2013 5:31:41 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583362

Seattle’s Newly-Elected Socialist Councilwoman Urges Boeing Workers To Physically Seize Factories, “Shut Down Profit-Making Machine”… In other words, she’s doing exactly what you’d expect a Socialist to do. Via KiroTV: Seattle City Councilmember-elect Kshama Sawant told Boeing machinists her idea of a radical option, should their jobs be moved out of state “The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing’s profit-making machine,” Sawant announced to a cheering crowd of union supporters in Seattle’s Westlake Park Monday night. This week, Sawant became Seattle’s first elected Socialist council member. She ran on a platform of anti-capitalism, workers’ rights, and a $15 per-hour minimum wage for Seattle workers. On Monday night, she spoke to supporters of Boeing Machinists, six days after they rejected a contract guaranteeing jobs in Everett building the new 777X airliner for eight years, in exchange for new workers giving up their guaranteed company pensions. Now Boeing is threatening to take those jobs to other states. “That will be nothing short of economic terrorism because it’s going to devastate the state’s economy,” she said. Sawant is calling for machinists to literally take-possession of the Everett airplane-building factory, if Boeing moves out. She calls that “democratic ownership.” weaselzippers.us