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    24 months ago

    What would the FTC do? Boeing builds aircraft for the US military. Breaking up the company or allowing it to fail jeopardizes the US’s strategic interests.

    Nationalization is an option but the political climate in the US is extremely hostile to that option. Instead what I expect will happen is a massive bailout and a forced reorganization of management to fix all the issues. The government will dictate the changes the company needs to make but otherwise will remain hands off. This is how the US has done these things in the past.

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      44 months ago

      What would the FTC do?

      Break it up. So it won’t be “too big”.

      Breaking up the company or allowing it to fail jeopardizes the US’s strategic interests.

      Ah. So you see the problem with capitalism.

      The government will dictate the changes the company needs to make

      And what will happen if nothing changes? Another bailout?

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        14 months ago

        Ah. So you see the problem with capitalism.

        It’s a double-edged sword. Boeing developed these aircraft. They’ve given the US the military advantage they’ve enjoyed since the Second World War.

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          24 months ago

          Boeing developed the aircraft with taxpayer money, they build the aircraft with taxpayer money, and then they get a ton of money as profits from our taxpayer money, and lastly we bail them out with our taxpayer money.