The collapse is very real. Perhaps you don't remember how many 747s we used to churn out every month. When the dollar was worth a great deal. $3 billion in net income is pathetic compared to where we used to be before the "Attack of the Foreign Governments".
The DOD [Dept. of Defense ] and the DSB [Defense Sciences Board] is even now realizing that we can't maintain our strategic missile capability for the long haul due to uncorrected current trends in our industrial diaspora.
I posted a major set of articles on this 5 months or so ago.
boeing employs, what, sometyhing in excess of 158,000 people. The fact that your individual job isn't as cushy as you might otherwise like is hardly a sign of Boeing's weakness, but rather it's vitality.