Boeing currently has an order backlog of over 4,000 737s and currently builds 42 aircraft per month.
I think that American jobs in Seattle are safe.
...soon to be over 50 a month...
in other words, they WILL HAVE TO HIRE MORE.
Some people are impossible to please. I thought that’s what we wanted, more jobs. I didn’t know we wouldn’t want them if it also created a few jobs in China. Damn, I gotta get my head on straight.
Now I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but let me tell you what that statement above means IN THE CONTEXT of our conversation. It means that it's only okay to do business with China is we're saving current jobs, NOT creating new ones. I really don't think you mean that, but again, in the logical progression of our give and take, unless it means that, it means nothing.
I think a backlog of 4000 planes in Seattle and 3000 new on order means MANY NEW JOBS in Seattle and Charleston - and yes, in China too. Used to be conservatives understood win/win dealings. Seems we're being led by a man and a thought process that assumes a "loser" in every deal. That's not how economics works. Zero sum is dangerously close to liberalism.