Boeing shareholder meeting turns tense amid 737 Max crisis

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...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."


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