I love to watch liberals spin. If your officials had told Boeing to
take some Heinz ketchup, and "shove it" instead, and Boeing then left
the area, you would be here right now bemoaning the loss of jobs, and
as an added touch, would probably blame it on Bush!

Dave


Boeing employs a steadily decreasing percentage of workers in this region.
Every time they cut back, there's a short term pain but the economy recovers.
When they go on hiring binges, tens of thousands of new families move here,
stress our physical and social infrastructure, and three years later they're
all on the dole or tryng to figure out how to earn a living clerking at Home
Depot for $10 an hour.

In the long run, we'd be better off with an orderly, progressive withdrawl
(which we continue to see, anyway) than riding the boom and bust "company town"
cycle.