If it's Boeing! I am not Going!

**Orion1969** · 01-05-2012, 06:39 AM

This is a sad day here in Wichita Kansas, The Boeing Company Will be closing it doors due to the fact that We are too Expensive to work with.

I find this a really bad Deal as My best friend is one of the 2100 who will lose his job at the end of 2013. Well I guess It going to be Airbus who takes over and we will need to put aside our differences to keep them here as well or else we as a City will no longer be able to attract new Jobs.

Out with Unions! The cost jobs and makes us all pay the price down the road.

Boeing has been a part of Wichita for nearly 80 years and now another chapter will close.

**HectorD** · 01-05-2012, 07:27 AM

The Wichita plant is apparently mainly for military projects, am I wrong? With the end of the war in Iraq this was bound to happen one way or another, its just strange that they would choose to close their oldest plant. Most likely due to Unions, but it could also be due to a lack of need for the plant. Frankly, military contractors like Boeing are being artificially inflated by the government and their military contracts. A company shouldn't be so big that if it where to fail, it would destroy the economy, but the military industrial complex has created such a situation. Its rather funny, but now that we are out of Iraq, it looks as if we will go to war with Iran, so don't worry, your friend will probably get his job back soon enough. *sarcastic laugh*.

**angels355** · 01-05-2012, 01:53 PM

80 years in Wichita, I can't understand the closing. The cost of living is far less in Wichita, I presume the transportation in and out of Wichita can't be beat, taxes must be much lower, and if I'm not mistaken Cessna, Beechcraft, Learjet/Bombardier have their plants there so Boeing could come to ask them questions if they need any advice on for example those thingybobbers that stick out from the body, those wing thingies, and if Boeing needed to borrow a cup of rivets, they would not have to walk far!

Boeing makes the best planes in the world, bar none. There's no other plane I would rather fly or be a passenger on than a Boeing plane.

**Raptor22** · 01-05-2012, 02:14 PM

At one time Unions were a good thing. they kept the workers from being abused, now they're just a way too make
money by collecting dues. It's sad about Boeing they have a long aviation history. Unions aren't always a good thing.

**angels355** · 01-05-2012, 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by Raptor22

At one time Unions were a good thing. they kept the workers from being abused, now they're just a way too make
money by collecting dues. It's sad about Boeing they have a long aviation history. Unions aren't always a good thing.

Unions have a history of violence, and aren't outrageous demands from unions the reason behind airline failures in some cases and jobs going overseas? After Reagan said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down these walls!", and E and W Germany were reunited once again, it was found that there were companies and products that could only exist in a closed Socialist economy in E. Germany. For example there was a bathtub manufacturer in E Germany that churned out cast iron bathtubs, a design dating back 100 or more years? When Capitalism took over that company vanished along with many others because of natural market forces. Unions and Socialism stifles innovation. There's an all American (Union run I presume) company that produces appliances in the US, made in America, and while it is good that the US is producing something on American soil, the quality and design of their products are so bad three of us in our neighborhood will never buy another. Unions and Socialism stifle not only innovation but also jobs. W. Germans commented that the E. German citizens were pitiful, and horribly poor, that's what a Socialist Utopia will get for you. Tom Clancy in one of his books said that before the end of the Soviet Union, you could recognize a "Moscovite" by how they walked with their heads hanging down. Do you know that one worldwide union actually uses as their slogan "Workers of the world unite!" Where have I heard that slogan before?