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Boeing Strike Seems More Like Corporate Terrorism

The "engineer" said it most plainly and clearly. I would encourage the strikers to take a look at Ford and GM share prices. These once great American companies have been unioned to death. Most of the U.S. out here have never had good wages or benefits of any kind. We all have the right, and the obligation actually, to invest in a company and own a piece of it. An awful lot of Americans are dying and being maimed in war right now, so that we can share in the success of a company. We keep hearing about 'big oil' 'plotting and scheming to bleed us poor proletarians to death; but we don't hear much about the $200,000 a day it takes to operate one offshore rig. It's the same for Boeing. It is no small feat to take on the world's most complex projects and turn a profit. Yes, parts of the Dreamliner were outsourced...owing to the repeated strikes! This was your fault!

This all by itself is enough to drag BA down into the penny stock class, ultimately to disappear from America altogether. Then where will you go with 'hat in hand' looking for work?...To Ford? they've already been striked to death. How about Snappy Hamburger Palace?

This nation is in an economic death spiral. To strike Boeing now is egregiously unAmerican.
To quote Abraham Lincoln: "Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged"
BA has military contracts in the offing-the nation is going down like the Titanic...and machinists are sabotaging the company, and wanting more comfortable deck chairs. Trust me...most of the nation despises these striking machinists. You want to help this nation? Or are you only interested in your self interest? Then you are absolutely no different from the money lenders who wrecked the economy. You strikers are doing precisely the same thing. Say to your union bosses, "This is NOT the time to strike. We recognize this nation is at war, Americans are bleeding everyday and night...this is wrong. WE want to go back to Work." I assure you the nation will honor you like you would not believe. But you insist on this sabotage...you will forever be the jackasses you are making of yourselves...for all the world to see, and in all the history books for generations to come., when the young students ask, "What happened to the once great America?"....Yes by all means...you will deserve the ignominy . We would love to see you all 'let go'. We have no respect for you whatsoever. If you don't like this opinion, you can call 1-800-Crybaby.

Defense Spending and the Presidential Election

As a V/N vet, I can add a little bit of perspective-hopefully useful and as objective as this report is. WE won almost every battle, but lost the one re. the civilian 'stomach for war'. It was our first full scale operation against guerillas under the radar. Just as the intelligence ops were separate and competitive on 9/11, and since has become more homogenized-we are much better at CAS or close air support. Whenever and wherever there are ground soldiers, e.g. Afghanistan's rugged terrain -ideal guerilla topography-we have helicopter gunships, A-10 Wart hogs, and the side firing , night flying, C-130 ordinance platforms all standing by, hovering, and ready to spray fire on any one foolish enough to identify his location by his own muzzle flash. We recently even chased a group into Pakistan and obliterated them, much to the ire of Pakistan. The point being, if any of you watched both conventions, as i did, heard the 'this is not the time for young lawyers on training wheels" facetious remarks in St.Paul-please take note that our enemy is regrouping in Pakistan, and will certainly be profoundly encouraged by Obama's election. While the terminally idealistic like to think that appeasement, negotiation, diplomacy, & sanctions, all sound so very plausible-the simple fact remains that our enemy still thinks of us, Obama included, as "The Great Satan"...they have no intention of negotiating with Satan.
In a word, we truly have lost the will to fight. And why not? With our iPods in our ears, our advancement to Boardwalk foremost in our minds, and busy painting our faces to attend the NFL game? We 'can't be bothered with the messy business of being at war'. As much as we would all like to close our eyes and 'cause it to disappear from view'...it ain't boys and girls! It just ain't. Nice try. I'm happy that you've found the moral high ground. Our enemy does not see you as standing on moral high ground...they see the egregious, unbridled greed that dragged the economy down the primrose path to the abyss we are 'enjoying now' - so we could all indulge our sopohmoric lusts for lots of 'stuff'. They see pornography and gambling on every corner, and the biggest customer for illicit drugs in the world...they feel a 'need' to destroy us.
Thus I adjure everyone to focus on the final words of McCain's convention address...."Stand up and fight...stand up and fight...stand up and fight". Put it down, and step away from your iPods. We are at war. Remind yourselves that the dollar of 1965, when homes could be bought for $18K, is worth a dime today. Viewed from that perspective, this war is cheap. Remembering that more men were shot dead in a matter of hours at the Battle of the Bulge in WWII...this casualty rate is phenomenally low. Gird your trembling loins, and stand up and fight. OR...you could run home to mamaobama. "Protect me Daddy"...clue...he ain't gonna protect you from anything. He's only one man. A young, idealistic, but inexperienced young man who stutters, and has a hard time finishing a sentience. he won't be able to finish anything.

Industries to Avoid, Industries to Buy

Brother, did you stir the pot! Let me complement you on a few things. The Big Three auto makers summary is accurate. "Disregard for the consumer" you mention on their part may go down in history as something pandemic among our "latter day" corporate mind set/conspicuous status conciousness...no need to belabor the golden parachute for execs who ran the company in the ditch. I'm pointing to what I would call the mind disease of this turn of the millenia. The American Indian had it right when they described the pale face as "Wasichu"-which means spider= busy spinning webs of deceipt for the purpose of capturing and sucking dry the hapless churl, the brand racists, and the body worshiping desperate hosuewives, drooling over 'the lives of the rich and famous'- and damn morality, full speed ahead. I wonder if anyone ever really took their "Business Ethics" class seriously.
Today we watch with glazed eye as thousands of homes are systematically destroyed by fire, flood, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, and mortgage meltdown...and think it will not happen to us! A clue...it will keep happening, and even accelerate until we all fall back and rethink this whole thing. Is it really important to buy the Hummer, and the million and a quarter home, on lots "starting in the low $300,000"? Has anyone really evaluated why we are called "the great Satan"? Porn anyone? How about a trip to Vegas where nothing you do will ever come to light...a clue...every move you make in Vegas is recorded on video. And the whole world is tune in to be entertianed by our stumbling, wretched collapse.