Boeing to cut up to 5,000 more jobs-sources

forbes.com ^ | 07.16.03, 9:10 PM ET | Chris Stetkiewicz

[searchandrecovery]

Washington has responded by offering more than $3 billion in tax incentives to secure the 1,000 or so jobs, plus potentially thousands more support and supplier jobs, the 7E7 would bring.

Why is it that gubmint will pay (potentially billions) to keep "1,000 or so jobs", yet let millions of jobs get lost to illegals/h1b,l1/outsourcing service jobs overseas/outsourcing manufacturing jobs overseas? Without a fight? They're either really stupid or really on the payola. Attention middle class, please grab your ankles. Gonna be a tough ride for a lot of people.

[JoeSchem]

Boeing benefits by free trade. It sells its jets overseas. If there was no free trade, Boeing would instantly go bankrupt.

[searchandrecovery]

Boeing benefits by free trade.

You sum it up exactly. Boeing benefits, American workers and jobs get the screw. Free Trade is anything but.

[waterstraat]

When a trip to the airport is like a trip to Nazi Germany, I'd be selling stock in anything air travel related.

There used to be a time when flying was actually fun! free cigarettes, free meals, free drinks, free cards, curteous stewardesses, etc.

[Jason_b]

Americans have always had to adjust to changes....the Northeast had the lock on textile mills for years. Then the mills started moving South, I suppose to get at the cheaper labor. The loss of work hit the Northeast very hard. And I guess the people in the South were happy to get the work. Americans have always migrated from region to region to find work. Southerns have moved North, and Northerners have moved South.

THE PROBLEM is now that to find work, Americans might have to migrate out of the country and that is of course nonsense.

But to stay in the US, for some people, may now be the equivalent of staying in the depressed areas of the US when the manufacturing moved out of town and to another area of the US.

Imagine the entire U.S. looking like the picture of some old steel town after the mills move out and the people leave. Now imagine all the people still there because there is no where else to go.

I sure hope that is not where we are headed.

[Destro]

THE PROBLEM is now that to find work, Americans might have to migrate out of the country and that is of course nonsense.

Is it really?

U.S. farmers see Brazil as lucrative investment-leaving the USA for new lands of opportunities

[Jason_b]

Point taken.

Thanks for the reply.