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Boeing Won’t Even Consider Moving HQ Back to Seattle
t’s been a brutal six years for Boeing, with two fatal jet crashes kicking off a series of safety crises — and raising concerns about the quality and safety of the planes rolling off its assembly lines. As Boeing scrambles to repair its reputation, some critics and shareholders are asking: Why not move headquarters away from the shadow of Washington, D.C., and back home to its roots in Seattle? But Boeing has now made clear: We are not interested. (edition.cnn.com) Ещё...
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Keeping a shareholder proposal off an annual meeting ballot doesn’t lock the door forever on moving back to Seattle. (As we all know, sometimes Boeing doors open unexpectedly!) A new CEO and a new board chairman will be in place within a year, they may have a different view.
.........can you say MISTAKE?!
You're overlooking the main reason the Lazy B moved to start with ... TAXES !
City, County and State taxes drove them out to begin with. They got taxed out of town. The local powers that be thought they could milk that winged cow forever, they were wrong. They could have the Ceremonial Key handovers and such in Seattle, but the real signing of the paperwork where the financial matters was done, was done in Oregon where the tax rate was lower. It was that way for years. Considering the current situation in Seattle I don't see them ever moving back and for the same reason. Tax wise nothing has changed, it's only gotten worse.
The ONLY thing that will save Boeing is a complete changing of the Guard from the top down. All of the Board Members and Chief Officers need to go. New ones need to be found with no connections to the past or to McDoug or GE and they should have a basic Engineering understanding if not a Degree in some form of mechanical engineering to even be considered. Yes, you still need the bean counters, but not at the expense of an understanding of good, basic engineering. Otherwise the Death Spiral will continue.
City, County and State taxes drove them out to begin with. They got taxed out of town. The local powers that be thought they could milk that winged cow forever, they were wrong. They could have the Ceremonial Key handovers and such in Seattle, but the real signing of the paperwork where the financial matters was done, was done in Oregon where the tax rate was lower. It was that way for years. Considering the current situation in Seattle I don't see them ever moving back and for the same reason. Tax wise nothing has changed, it's only gotten worse.
The ONLY thing that will save Boeing is a complete changing of the Guard from the top down. All of the Board Members and Chief Officers need to go. New ones need to be found with no connections to the past or to McDoug or GE and they should have a basic Engineering understanding if not a Degree in some form of mechanical engineering to even be considered. Yes, you still need the bean counters, but not at the expense of an understanding of good, basic engineering. Otherwise the Death Spiral will continue.
Septic tank or not, Seattle is home to the real core of Boeing--engineers and machinists and mechanics. The filth that the woke government of what was not so long ago one of the nicest cities the U.S. promotes doesn't begin to compare with the filth of the deep state in Washington. Mr. Ryan had a very good suggestion, but of course the corrupt bean-counters of Boeing would have none of that. If I were Mr. Ryan, I'd sell my 10,000 shares as soon as he could, because Boeing is in a death spiral.
Politics has nothing to do with this; corp greed and out-of-touch CEOs is where you can point your finger.
Politics HAS EVERYTHING do do with it! In fact, EVERYTHING can be drilled down to a "room cause analysis" either "politics or sex"!
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