Boeing shareholder meeting turns tense amid 737 Max crisis

Miloch wrote in
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In article , DAN says...

Mitchell Holman wrote:

I sm surprized top managers were not hauled
out of the meeting and hanged from the nearest lamp
poles. The worst PR blunder in the company's history,
airlines all over the world cancelling sales orders,
no one is flying their product, and Boeing cannot
even explain the problem much less post a deadline
for fixing it.

Well, IMO they should not even be walking the streets free.
They should be in the dock answering why they let their greed kill
people.

That is, of course, if the USan government wasn't in bed with
Business. Fat chance...

It's a relationship Eisenhower called the "military industrial
complex"...

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/13294...military-expan
sion-50-years-later

On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower gave the nation a dire
warning about what he described as a threat to democratic government.
He called it the military-industrial complex, a formidable union of
defense contractors and the armed forces.

Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general, the man who led the
allies on D-Day, made the remarks in his farewell speech from the
White House.

As NPR's Tom Bowman tells Morning Edition co-host Renee Montagne,
Eisenhower used the speech to warn about "the immense military
establishment" that had joined with "a large arms industry."

Here's an excerpt:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists, and will persist."

Since then, the phrase has become a rallying cry for opponents of
military expansion.

Eisenhower gave the address after completing two terms in office; it
was just days before the new president, John F. Kennedy, would be
sworn in.

Eisenhower was worried about the costs of an arms race with the Soviet
Union, and the resources it would take from other areas -- such as
building hospitals and schools.

Bowman says that in the speech, Eisenhower also spoke as someone who
had seen the horror and lingering sadness of war, saying that "we must
learn how to compose differences not with arms, but with intellect and
decent purpose."


I miss the days when presidents could face
issues with dignity and calm reasoning with an
eye toward the future of the country in the
succeeding decades.