And it couldn't have happened to a "nicer" company.

The Air Force announced that it will buy 179 refueling tankers from Boeing’s rival, Airbus.

Boeing is practically "affirmative action" Hades. Look at just part of the crap loaded on it's employment website:

Trotting around to the blacks only women only DI-versity employment events:
http://www.boeing.com/employment/employment/events.html
Are you a white male? Uh, errrr, get lost.

Photos of people they want to hire: women, minorities, indians who weren't born in this country. Also
Boeing leads the list of 52 Top Corporate Supporters of Black Engineering Schools
Boeing Ranked in Top 100 Diversity Employers 2006 by the Universum Ideal Employer™ Survey
The message is clear - white guys need not apply. ( Now watch - some dork is going to say "Drooooool....the CEO is a white guy!")
http://www.boeing.com/employment/col...ers/index.html

The corporate quota committment:
http://www.boeing.com/aboutus/divers...firmative.html

Executive white uncle toms taking the anti-white racism pledge:
http://www.boeing.com/aboutus/diversity/commitment.html

The "affinty groups" this is a dressed up "respectable" version of what would be called in the 20th century south with white guys "the klan meeting"
http://www.boeing.com/aboutus/diversity/groups.html

There's lots more of this garbage. Well now, these clowns who have played the government's game of anti-white racism, find themselves on the losing end of a gigantic historic company-preserving deal.

Maybe now they'll hire some people on the basis of merit to work on something new? But better would be the Racism Palace of Seattle just collapse and fade into history.

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http://politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=27847

this thread is so wrong, to its core.

From what I remember reading, the planes being built by Boeing’s rival are going to be bigger and better. Boeing missed out. Too bad for them.

and european, and paid for by the us government. so what blade is trying to say is that not only did government intervention (AA) keep a company from becoming productive, but they're also not willing to own up to their mistake and pay the company.

Actually it's still being examined by the Government Accountability Office. As of now it looks like they went with the better plane. We'll see I guess.

I have to say that my first reaction was disbelief that the AF would go with an EU product; but then after close examination its clear that it is leftist PC run amok.

We were discussing the critical necessity of understanding the meaning of words in another thread and many felt the point insignificant; but it should be noted that diversity is rooted in division... strength is not found in division; celebrating diversity celebrates our differences.

Reading those sourced urls made me physically ill.

I wouldn't doubt that Airbus is providing the better deal. Let's face it, our subsidized sectors (yes I'm aware that airbus is heavily subsidized by their government) tend to do very poorly and do not take accountability. Just look at the US auto industry. You have tons of people with pensions you could only dream of and extremely high wages for work that is largely simple. We thrived only because we were one of the few countries with an auto industry to even provide vehicles. When a country like Japan started providing cheap, quality, fuel efficient vehicles the American Auto Industry as went downhill, while their unions continually fight for wages that are just not sustainable and rather ridiculous to say the least. Now we the taxpayers are paying for them to hold those wages. What could the United Auto Workers Union possibly say in defense, that Japan another 1st world country is underpaying their workers?

As I've said in one of my other posts this idea of entitlement in our country needs to go. I see far too many lazy, unmotivated, unintelligent people who expect to have just as much as someone else strictly because they were born.

On a more specific note related to the OP, their diversity stance does seem to be ridiculous. I don't understand how people get this idea that diversity spurs growth and ideas. Intelligent, hard-working people spur growth and ideas, which could be anyone from any race or background. Diversity for the sake of diversity is just stupid when it takes precedence over merit.

Agreed. The attention to race in this manner works towards division. I really don't understand how people come up with some of their ideas. If you want to truly speak out for equality and toss out the -ism's, then why pay so much attention to them and then come out and try to make it a big deal. This approach is just backwards. It also ruins the motivation of people who actually focus on the important things for jobs like education and skills, NOT race.

lol, i actually live next door to the former president of the UAW. i've been taking care of his house while he was gone.

What particular evidence do you have that Boeing's corporate-standard diversity efforts were behind the loss of the deal, and not simply normal market competition?

Especially because overall Boeing is doing just fine, and indeed had record sales last year.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...ingsale14.html

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