"Clyde Slick" wrote in message
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When Boeing got ****ed on the SST it put 50% of Seattle out of work.

Boeing got saved from that potential fiasco.
Waht happened all of a sudden to your devotion to free market economics?


Nothing, I just excercised my freedom and moved.
I didn't have time enough to wait.



Wait a minute!
You said Boeing got ****ed.
What Boeing got ****ed out of, was government subsidies to
buiild a commercial SST.
Now, ADDRESS THAT ISSUE.in light of your
free market economic beliefs.


What's to address? I had no control over who the government spends money on
and I'm solidly opposed to it.

I mean they got ****ed because they were promised the money to do the
research, (something I oppose, but a deal is a deal) then it was withdrawn,
not because the project was not going well, but because of the worry about
"noise pollution."
If you're going to stop the subsidies, it ought to be for a rational and
verifiable reason, not a made up one.

I suppose you could also rationalize it by noting that any information that
came from the research funded by those subsidies might be applicable to
military uses, but I don't know, and it still is funding that I oppose.

I could also rationalize further by pointing out many people were being
employed and paying taxes back and once the project was finished (had it
been allowed to) there would be people employed and paying taxes from wages
and from their spending, not to mention the taxes collected on sales of the
aircraft, had they ever gotten built. Still companies ought to do their own
research financed from their own money.

Certainly I don't want government spending money in such a way, the aircraft
companies should do research on their own dime. The system that allowed
them to receive the subsidies was already in place and there was nothing I
could do about, other than oppose it.

No matter how much I oppose it and would not allow it under the system I
advocate, the fact is it was being done and then the funds cut off and the
result was disastrous for the people of Seattle.

They were actually getting aid from their "sister city" Kobe, Japan. It was
like the Depression, only localized.