Those CEOs and Wall St just gotta be bailed out with their 'golden parachutes' while the line personnel get pushed out with a handshake.
Someone find out how many jobs Boeing sent offshore...
When Planemakers Merge
http://eatthestate.org/02-28/WhenPlanemakersMerge.htm"Boeing's enormous political clout--retaining over 70 of D.C.'s largest lobbying firms--has allowed it to nearly single-handedly shape to its own self-interest U.S. policies that tolerate and encourage human rights abuses in China and numerous other countries. As noted last week, Jim McDermott's current "Sub-Sahara Africa Trade Bill," like much of trade and defense policy advocated by McDermott and everyone else in the state's Congressional delegation, is a huge windfall for Boeing. Boeing also takes a more direct role, as in NATO expansion (the major purpose of which is to sell U.S. weapons to Eastern Europe). In Hungary's national referedum last fall on whether to join NATO, Boeing donated about U.S. $100,000 to the "yes" campaign, which won.
Boeing's interest in such countries isn't just in sales. As with many transnationals, Boeing relentlessly outsources its labor and suppliers-- busting unions, killing U.S. jobs, and contracting as much of its manufacturing as it can in countries with low wages, brutal anti-union regimes, and lax to non-existent environmental laws. Even in this country, Boeing's worker safety record is abysmal (e.g., its recent settlement of a lawsuit with chemically injured workers in Renton). Its environmental record, littered with Superfund toxic waste sites, is equally horrid."
That's called Free Market Populism. Someone call Thomas Frank, quick !