Posted on 01/05/2012 8:30:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
So, tired of high taxes? Want to see big federal budget cuts? Congratulations. You're getting your wish. And you just cost 2,160 people in Kansas their jobs. [snip]
Welcome to "living within our means," which means you don't necessarily have any means to live with.
You can argue that cutting the defense budget has to be done, but those are some nice, well-paying jobs that are being lost. Jobs that the local Wal-Mart probably won't match.
I suppose the real lesson, though, is that we can't have our cake and eat it too. You can't shrink government without cutting jobs. And those job cuts won't be just in the newly demonized public sector.
Sure, the private sector may eventually pick up the slack.
But "eventually" won't come soon enough for a lot of Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinion.latimes.com ...
Wait until the NLRB Nazis tell Boeing they can’t close...
Boeing actually does work (even when using union workers).
Cutting jobs from that company hurts the country.
The government rarely does work. (And considering the clowns that the Obamaloon and his West Wing Clown Show of Felon/Cretins are hiring, “rarely” is a fitting descriptors.)
Cut government, LAT. Oh, and it appears that the private market is doing a fine job of eliminating positions for your bottom-O-the-barrel lib arts journalism majors.
What it is about is the deal Boeing cut with the NLRB promising more jobs in Seattle to be able to open a plant in SC.
KS is already a "right to work" state and the cost of living in Wichita is very modest, no this is nothing about "labor costs" unless you add in the factor that Boeing's labor costs in Seattle, WA will be so much that something (Wichita, KS) had to go!
The Union at Boeing Witchita is especially militant, striking in 2005, wildcatting, and doing constant slowdowns for ever more benefits.
They were threatening to strike at Cessna recently, and setting up for another go at Boeing.
Why deal with it in today’s marketplace?
Just another in a LONG, LONG line of plants darkened by unions that killed the Golden Goose.
The surge worked.
Funny, when NASA was gutted and the Shuttle was shut down, I don’t remember the L.A. Times bawling over the 25,000 lost NASA jobs.
I believe that company said they will offer jobs to all at their other plants.
why are their jobs more sacred than everyone elses?
Yeah, cuz all the spending has really created a boom.
Idiot libtards.
Paul Whitefield can shove it. Hussein’s cult in the Senate is to blame for these problems. They’ve spent like drunken sailors but haven’t passed a budget in more than 2 years.
Hussein and his cult ALSO passed a trillion dollars failed stimulus and a job destroying DEATHCARE law. And our credit rating as a nation was downgraded....all with Hussein at the helm.
All of those chickens are coming home to roost, Paul.
Paul Whitefield can shove it. Hussein’s cult in the Senate is to blame for these problems. They’ve spent like drunken sailors but haven’t passed a budget in more than 2 years.
Hussein and his cult ALSO passed a trillion dollars failed stimulus and a job destroying DEATHCARE law. And our credit rating as a nation was downgraded....all with Hussein at the helm.
All of those chickens are coming home to roost, Paul.
I’m just shocked to see the Los Angeles Times in favor of defense spending.
Could qualify for post of the week.
Well then let's fix it by having the government pay those people to dig giant holes and fill them up again.
Yes, thought of that.
But, in fairness we have to find something comparable to sneak into the ladies room....
If you think these cuts are bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet. To balance the federal budget means 1.5 trillion in cuts.
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