"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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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.

All of them? I thought you were one of the smarter "stupid liberals" here.
;-)

My brother worked for Boeing for a year and then was laid off. As appealing
as that Home Depot job for $10/hr. was to him, he moved to Brownsville,
Texas...and has worked in a manufacturing facility as an engineer for the
past 5 years.

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.

I agree.