I’m a little late to the party on this – it took me a while to stomach looking through it – but I couldn’t help but notice that in Sunday’s print edition of the NYT, the special section commemorating 9-11 features a host of full-page ads from the financial sector (natch)…and also full page ads from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman.
As the tag line for the Lockheed ad says, “We are not defined by tragedy, but by how we carry on.” Indeed.
Have you been following the NLRB debate about Boeing moving jobs to anti-union South Carolina?
Very much so. It’s a local story in Seattle, since this is where the union jobs are being moved from. And the head of the NLRB was correct in that the law didn’t really give them any wiggle room to avoid ruling against Boeing. Boeing execs openly bragged that relocating to SC was a retaliatory move to punish workers for exercising their collective bargaining rights. That’s illegal. Period.
Nothing, however, seems to interrupt the gravy train of overpriced federal contracts in the Pentagon. Not something like that, not contractor fraud, not systems that don’t work properly or come in even close to on time or at budget, not even the egregious wastes of taxpayer money the Tea Partiers claim to be so concerned about. Not all crime is created equal. Congress is ostensibly the solution, but instead they’re busy foisting boondoggle weapons systems on the Pentagon that the generals don’t even want.
within five years, 9/11 will be used to sell cars and mattresses.
“We’re flying planes into high prices this September 11 holiday weekend! Honor YOUR first responder with a new Ford F15. Exercise YOUR freedom from HIGH prices!”
It’s already happening/
Patrick Smith, who writes the “Ask The Pilot” column at Salon made this week’s column about reflections on 9/11 from a pilot/airline industry point of view.
A key thought:
Worth reading the whole thing especially if airlines/travel/TSA are of interest to you.
Have any of those corporations donated to Obama? To the Democratic Party?
Your party and your president are as pure as the driven tar sands.
I think they contribute to anyone who might approve their contracts, regardless of party. But most will give more to the R’s because the R’s are basically easier whores to buy.
What I love about the Democrats: they are whores, but not easy.