Boeing Plants Sold -- Workers Screwed

Announced today in the Wichita Eagle newspaper, Wichita, KS, that Onex corp., a Canadian equity capital firm has purchased the Boeing Aircraft Plants at Wichita, Kansas, McAllister, Oklahoma and Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a cool $900 million and assumption of debt. The workers have been informed that they will have to reapply for their old jobs. [chuckle]. Same management team will stay on.

Simple math:

(1)Boeing get cash and lowered contract costs.
(2)Onex gets a handy percentage of the increased profits and turns around and sells in a yeaar or so, maybe even back to Boeing.
(2)Workers get their paycheck cut in half.

Welcome to the new form of U.S. government in the new millenium --its called "Cashism." Its like facism, only instead of the government running the corporations, the corporations run the government as a wholey owned subsidiary.

BY LAW, our most esteemed citizens (yes, according to the Supreme Court coprorations are persons), are required to put their naked self interest above anything or anybody (see Dodge v. Ford). Sure, they can be charitable, BUT ONLY if it can be shown in a court, that these acts of benevolence contribute to their botttom line. This is established case law. If they fail to put greed above all else they can be sued by their shareholders.

We can now see the end result of this corporatocracy. Where our most influential citizens are multinational corporations. No, you´ll never hear about this on the news, because the corporations pay the tab for the media. Sure, we have Martha Stewart, the sacrificial lamb for the brokerage crimes of Merill-Lynch. A stern lesson for anyone who might accept a tip from their broker and not be intimately familiar with securities law, and then try and blame the behemoth.

And, most are familiar with Eisenhower´s warnings of the dreaded "Iron Triangle" the lethal combination of defense, their lobbyists and the pentagon. The revolving door is spinning at warp speed. Every General worth his salt is forming or managing a private group of mercenaries who receive multiples of their former service pay. Need I mention Haliburton and the outsourcing study showing how much the Pentagon would save if it outsourced logistics. Funny, it turneed out just the opposite.

But relax folks, this is just object lesson #665 in a long string of experiments in government.

I know many will beg to differ, but it really is this simple. Take Jesus out of the picture and capitalism doesn´t look real pretty from underneath. Throw his teaching out of the schools. Teach people to put their own interests above others. And you reap the rewards.

Communism was actually based on Jesus´s principles "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs," but it was one of the cruelest and most inhumane government system in redorded history, far, far, worse than the excesses of the Czar´s regime which it replaced. Likewise, capitalism, without a Christian moral basis, is simply naked greed, screwing the poor so the rich can have more.

So get out your notepads and get ready to learn as THE teacher imparts to us this truth.