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.
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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.
How dare you post actual quotes.
You fail to explain why Boeing
shouldn't have manufacturing facilities overseas. You also fail to explain how you would
prevent Boeing from establishing those facilities in the first place.
That's the problem with the we-are-doomed argument. It is half-baked.
"is moving Boeing commercial aircraft production out of the country." - RLK
You've confused Boeing's obligatory establishment of manufacturing for a single component (out of millions per aircraft) in each of its overseas customers - with Boeing moving ALL AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION overseas.
Boeing is still building its aircraft here in America. Now, in the future, and as always in past, Boeing continues to set up small manufacturing operations in each client country, such that the client country can legitimately say that they helped build the aircraft in their fleet. This is an age-old Boeing policy.
But in no way, shape, or form does it mean that Boeing is no longer going to be building its aircraft here in America.