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Subject: Re: Boeing shareholder meeting turns tense amid 737 Max crisis
From: Mitchell Holman <noemail@verizont.net>
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Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:qaaads0iaf@drn.newsguy.com:
> In article <9a8hcehhutm84v3k923ubafhh9i39e2if4@4ax.com>, DAN says...
>>
>>Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>
>>> I sm surprized top managers were not hauled
>>>out of the meeting and hanged from the nearest lamp
>>>poles. The worst PR blunder in the company's history,
>>>airlines all over the world cancelling sales orders,
>>>no one is flying their product, and Boeing cannot
>>>even explain the problem much less post a deadline
>>>for fixing it.
>>
>>Well, IMO they should not even be walking the streets free.
>>They should be in the dock answering why they let their greed kill
>>people.
>>
>>That is, of course, if the USan government wasn't in bed with
>>Business. Fat chance...
>
> It's a relationship Eisenhower called the "military industrial
> complex"...
>
> https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244/ikes-warning-of-military-expan
> sion-50-years-later
>
> On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower gave the nation a dire
> warning about what he described as a threat to democratic government.
> He called it the military-industrial complex, a formidable union of
> defense contractors and the armed forces.
>
> Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general, the man who led the
> allies on D-Day, made the remarks in his farewell speech from the
> White House.
>
> As NPR's Tom Bowman tells Morning Edition co-host Renee Montagne,
> Eisenhower used the speech to warn about "the immense military
> establishment" that had joined with "a large arms industry."
>
> Here's an excerpt:
>
> "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition
> of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
> military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
> misplaced power exists, and will persist."
>
> Since then, the phrase has become a rallying cry for opponents of
> military expansion.
>
> Eisenhower gave the address after completing two terms in office; it
> was just days before the new president, John F. Kennedy, would be
> sworn in.
>
> Eisenhower was worried about the costs of an arms race with the Soviet
> Union, and the resources it would take from other areas -- such as
> building hospitals and schools.
>
> Bowman says that in the speech, Eisenhower also spoke as someone who
> had seen the horror and lingering sadness of war, saying that "we must
> learn how to compose differences not with arms, but with intellect and
> decent purpose."
I miss the days when presidents could face
issues with dignity and calm reasoning with an
eye toward the future of the country in the
succeeding decades.
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