I'm actually pretty much OK with the Boing deal. But then again, I'm a post liberal, so I don't really have a problem with a state deciding that particular industries and companies are strategically important and therefore "above the law" (to a certain degree). The government's main job is to protect the country, and Boeing (the only maj…
I'm actually pretty much OK with the Boing deal. But then again, I'm a post liberal, so I don't really have a problem with a state deciding that particular industries and companies are strategically important and therefore "above the law" (to a certain degree). The government's main job is to protect the country, and Boeing (the only major aircraft manufacturer in America and thus effectively a national-flag company in the same sense that Airbus is a EU flag company) is a huge part of how they do that. It is thus strategically important militarily and economically, and destroying the company in court would weaken both of those.
I'm actually pretty much OK with the Boing deal. But then again, I'm a post liberal, so I don't really have a problem with a state deciding that particular industries and companies are strategically important and therefore "above the law" (to a certain degree). The government's main job is to protect the country, and Boeing (the only major aircraft manufacturer in America and thus effectively a national-flag company in the same sense that Airbus is a EU flag company) is a huge part of how they do that. It is thus strategically important militarily and economically, and destroying the company in court would weaken both of those.