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Title: "THE UNITED STATES HAS NO DIVINE RIGHT TO OUR STANDARD OF LIVING" - Alan Mulally, President of Boeing
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The News Tribune
URL Source: http://www.tribnet.com
Published: Feb 07, 2002
Author: John Gillie
Post Date: 2005-11-22 17:26:45 by Uncle Bill
Keywords: President, STANDARD, Mulally,
Views: 180
Comments: 21
The News Tribune Competitiveness demands that the new, more global Boeing Co. share its work and its wealth with workers around the world, the company's highest-ranking Pacific Northwest executive said Tuesday in Tacoma. Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, said Boeing can't act like British colonialists extracting wealth from other countries and exporting it all back home. Mulally, speaking to The News Tribune editorial board, said that with 70 percent of Boeing's commercial airplanes sold to airlines operating outside the United States, Boeing has an obligation to build parts of its aircraft overseas. "We just operate everywhere," he said. "We need to include everybody around the world in the asset utilization. They buy our products and pay up. We can't just extract wealth from other countries and pay ourselves. "And the United States has no divine right to our standard of living," Mulally added, defending Boeing's overseas parts production. The issue of performing work overseas is a sensitive area with Puget Sound Boeing workers who have made limiting out-sourcing one of their top priorities in ongoing labor negotiations. The Boeing executive said the company wants to concentrate on what it does best: design, sales, marketing and large-scale integration of complex products. "Competitiveness is at the top - the very top - of our agenda. Whatever we choose to do, we have to do it and add value better than anybody else in the world. "Because that's what we believe in. That's capitalism. That's market forces." Mulally said Boeing's skill at large-scale system integration is unique. "Very few people in the world can build an airplane and make it safe. So the most important thing that we do is product development, sales, marketing, new airplanes, new services and taking care of our customers." Mulally said doing what the company does best may well mean farming out more parts production elsewhere. "We just operate in this very global enterprise. Does that mean over time that we'll make less parts? We keep gravitating where we can add more value. "Does that mean we can include everybody that we can? Absolutely. Does that mean we will keep nurturing our business with China and Singapore and Japan? Absolutely. Is that good for business? Absolutely. Do we want to include everybody that we can? Absolutely." The Boeing chief said he's eager to see the Puget Sound area solve some of its infrastructure and competitiveness issues so it will be more attractive to businesses. Mulally headed a statewide competitiveness council that recommended solutions to the Legislature. The penchant for government to repeatedly study what to do and how to finance those improvements and then fail to act is particularly frustrating, he said. "The most important question is not about transportation, it's not about permitting, it's not about regulation. It's about whether we, the people of the state of Washington - not Boeing - are going to keep pulling together and have great debates, and at the end of the day move forward together. "I've never seen a set of people who want a proven solution all mapped out before we can more forward with it." Mulally said he hopes Boeing's layoffs are nearly done. The company has laid off or issued warning notices to more than 28,000 workers. Mulally in September said the company would lay off about 30,000 workers because of the aftereffects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But even if aircraft orders return to more normal levels, Mulally predicted, the company's payroll won't return to former levels. Boeing will add workers very conservatively. Increasing productivity will ultimately mean fewer jobs, he said. John Gillie: 253-597-8663 john.gillie@mail.tribnet.com 
Mulally: Global Boeing
must share
By John Gillie
February 7, 2002
"Americans are duty-bound
to share
our wealth
with poor nations"
George W. Bush - Source. 
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#1. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
Mr. Mulally has no right to live in America. Let him live where he offshores.
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld
The U.S. may not have a divine right to its standard of living, but it surely does have a right to expect that a corporation incorporated in one of the United States will think first about the welfare of Americans.
Funny thing, I was just thinking that about the CEO's of American corporations. As far as I'm concerned they have no divine right to their feudal lord standard of living either. Funny how that all works out...
"And the United States has no divine right to our standard of living," Mulally added, defending Boeing's overseas parts production.
#2. To: robin (#1)
#3. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
"And the United States has no divine right to our standard of living," Mulally added, defending Boeing's overseas parts production.
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#4. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
Before Alan Mulally, Boeing had Philip Condit. Globalist thought = New World Order.
#5. To: Elliott Jackalope (#3)
that was exactly my thought Elliott.
Funny thing, I was just thinking that about the CEO's of American corporations. As far as I'm concerned they have no divine right to their feudal lord standard of living either. Funny how that all works out...
#6. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
Good find. Check this out. On the Question of Free Trade MECW Volume 6, p. 450; Works of Karl Marx 1848 Speech to the Democratic Association of Brussels at its public meeting of January 9, 1848 Excerpt: Lost Or Unrecognized Multi-National Economic Principles And Slavery One can see temptations in the paragraphs above, at various levels, to make short term individual financial killings at considerable long term overall cost to the economic entirety. In fact, the brokers become permanently wealthy while everyone else gets destroyed after a delayed period. The broker has financial motivation to destroy the country. Other people want something for nothing, providing similar motivation. The long term economic cost is disastrous." Marx was horrificly mistaken in his belief that he could construct an alternative communist utopia, but in his analysis of the socio-economic consequences of unbridled free trade, he was in complete agreement with Adam Smith and David Ricardo. If there is anything clearly exposed in political economy, it is the fate attending the working classes under the reign of Free Trade. All those laws developed in the classical works on political economy, are strictly true under the supposition only, that trade be delivered from all fetters, that competition be perfectly free, not only within a single country, but upon the whole face of the earth. These laws, which A. Smith, Say, and Ricardo have developed, the laws under which wealth is produced and distributed — these laws grow more true, more exact, then cease to be mere abstractions, in the same measure in which Free Trade is carried out. And the master of the science, when treating of any economical subject, tells us every moment that all their reasonings are founded upon the supposition that all fetters, yet existing, are to be removed from trade. They are quite right in following this method.... Thus it can justly be said, that the economists — Ricardo and others — know more about society as it will be, than about society as it is. They know more about the future than about the present. If you wish to read in the book of the future, open Smith, Say, Ricardo. There you will find described, as clearly as possible, the condition which awaits the working man under the reign of perfect Free Trade. Take, for instance, the authority of Ricardo, authority than which there is no better. What is the natural normal price of the labour of, economically speaking, a working man? Ricardo replies, “Wages reduced to their minimum — their lowest level.”... Either you must disavow the whole of political economy as it exists at present, or you must allow that under the freedom of trade the whole severity of the laws of political economy will be applied to the working classes. Is that to say that we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon a greater extent of territory, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions into a single group, where they stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletarians.... ~Frederick Engels, The Free Trade Congress at Brussels, October 9, 1847
By Karl Marx
January 9, 1848;
First published: as a pamphlet in Brussels, February 1848. 
But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
Karl Marx, "On the Question of Free Trade" - January 9, 1848
"There is a tendency for people arguing that unlimited free trade will provide cheap goods to employ the same type of vague superficial unquantified non-followed- up logic used to argue for perpetual motion machines which always look like they work in terms of superficial verbal constructs, but don't work under detailed quantitative analysis.
#7. To: aristeides (#2)
From what I've read over the last few years, the average CEO lasts 2.5 years and cares only for how golden his golden parachute becomes. Using Mr. Mulally's rationale, does he also see no reason not to sell WMDs to any nation he so desires?
The U.S. may not have a divine right to its standard of living, but it surely does have a right to expect that a corporation incorporated in one of the United States will think first about the welfare of Americans.
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld
#8. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
How about if we revoke their corporate charter and put all of their "Intellectual Property" in the public domain (Same for the Micro$oft monopoly). That should take of their desire to not be American corporations.
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#9. To: Coral Snake (#8)
And withdraw our troops, police, public utilities, university grants, military research and Constitutional property rights and that ever allowed Mr. Mulally's corporation to exist.
How about if we revoke their corporate charter and put all of their "Intellectual Property" in the public domain
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld
#10. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, said Boeing can't act like British colonialists extracting wealth from other countries and exporting it all back home. Fine.. Now, since you're just another useless eater, sucking on our collective tit, you can pay more in taxes. No more breaks, we're gonna make you tow the line. And don't even talk about a taxpayer bailout if you get in financial trouble. (Ask China to do it) Don't like it? Tough. You have no "divine right" to preferential treatment in our market.
Competitiveness demands that the new, more global Boeing Co. share its work and its wealth with workers around the world, the company's highest-ranking Pacific Northwest executive said Tuesday in Tacoma.
Zogby Poll- "By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq."
#11. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
You know it's a damn shame that Hugo Chavez is willing to do more to help Americans than Boeing. Hugo Chavez.. Imagine.
Zogby Poll- "By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq."
#12. To: Coral Snake (#8)
The problem is these multinationals have our politicians in their back pocket. They've been buying legislation via lobbyists for years, and they're now feeling their oats. Nope, don't look for a political solution to our troubles. It's time to pray for the defeat of this corporate/nation called AmeriKa.
How about if we revoke their corporate charter and put all of their "Intellectual Property" in the public domain
#13. To: robin (#9)
Haven't you ever noticed how these so called billionare "capitalists" are actually such SOCIALISTS. They are ALL into gun grabbing, depopulation, eugenics, wealth redistribution (other than theirs) and every other socialist scheme in the books. They should have to play along too then maybe they would QUIT being such socialists.
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#14. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
Bastards.. the image with the hammer and sickle is perfect.. the idiot Americans have NO clue that's what this is ALL about.. Marx thought that the unmovable force .."unstoppable revolutionary force of world capitalism".. if the American people ONLY knew.. God help us.
#15. To: Coral Snake (#13)
They're also into protected markets.. There was an article here a while back about the big names in oil supporting increasing regulations and restrictions.. Why? Because they can afford the cost of compliance and are already well established. Go try to open a refinery why don't you.. See what mess you end up in. Say, have the "Free Traders" sent you any Low Cost Canadian Lumber or Prescription Drugs lately?
Zogby Poll- "By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq."
#16. To: Jethro Tull (#12)
It is time to start Jury Nullifying all gun grab laws with a strong warning that those guns will be used if they go after them with door to door confiscation. And it is time to start learning the Linux OS too. No matter what one may think of a "revenge" factor in pirating Micro$oft products and Jury Nullifying the copyright and patent laws concerning them this only helps to continue to support and spread the Micro$oft monopoly and that's a bad thing.
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#17. To: All (#10)
And from what I recall, Boeing has no "divine right" to government contracts, either. None what-so-ever. And remember.. You better pay those taxes! Fail to do so and I'd cut off a finger for the chance to put your assets on Ebay.. you POS.
Zogby Poll- "By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq."
#18. To: Coral Snake (#13)
They're not socialists Coral.. they're outright Marxists..
Haven't you ever noticed how these so called billionare "capitalists" are actually such SOCIALISTS.
#19. To: Elliott Jackalope (#3)
Ahhh. That's better.
the CEO's of American corporations have no divine right to living .
#20. To: Jhoffa_, Elliot Jackalope (#17)
Boeing has no right to a profit..
#21. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
Boeing has no divine right to continue existing on American soil. Send the traitors packing, or to the electric chair, but don't call them Americans whatever you do.
"And the United States has no divine right to our standard of living," Mulally added, defending Boeing's overseas parts production.
God is always good!
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02]
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