Boeing is going to find out, and it's looking like some shipping companies might as well.

The trend for years now has been to cut staff, squeeze remaining employees to do more with less, and reward shareholders with dividends and stock buy backs.

But of course both political parties will make sure it's you, the taxpayer, who picks up the bill in the end.

Private profits and public losses.

Too big to fail!

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

I hope their bean counters make mathematical sense out of their past moral lapses and start doing right not because it's right but because it costs too much in lawsuits to keep doing wrong. It's not morality but it works sometimes.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

This is a perfect example of why capitalists need regulatory oversight.

When there's profit motive, you can't allow the wolf to be in charge of the hen house.

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti