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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts) Thu Jan 5, 2012, 10:05 PM Jan 2012

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Boeing's free-market move is going to cost Kansas big-time [View all]

Boeing's free-market move is going to cost Kansas big-time

Boeing workers in Kansas
So, tired of high taxes? Want to see big federal budget cuts?

Congratulations. You're getting your wish.

And you just cost 2,160 people in Kansas their jobs.

That's because Boeing Co., bracing for cuts in the defense budget over the coming decade, decided that "we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto," announcing Wednesday that it will close its facility in Wichita.

A plant that it's operated just since, oh, the 1920s.

http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2012/01/boeing-job-cuts-wichita-defense-cutbacks.html

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Boeing's free-market move is going to cost Kansas big-time [View all] Liberal_in_LA Jan 2012 OP

I can only assume the plant has been deemed obsolete OmahaBlueDog Jan 2012 #1

Boeing has added several thousand people to its west-coast operations... bhikkhu Jan 2012 #2

but, but, but gov. Brownback says he's the great job creator for KS! That corps. and RKP5637 Jan 2012 #3

I get regular right wing emails from an inlaw of my sister's who works at that Boeing plant. rgbecker Jan 2012 #4

it is going to hurt us, but it could have been worse demtenjeep Jan 2012 #5

Wichita-Home of wicked Koch Brothers- ErikJ Jan 2012 #6

Massively Funny kurt_cagle Jan 2012 #7

Didn't Obama just sell a lot of planes? EC Jan 2012 #8

That was a heavy iron defense plant ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2012 #9

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