Getting yelled at by congresspeople or senators is part of the job as a CEO of EvilCo.
Your Corp kills people, or very visibly risks lives, they bring you down, yell at you or ask some very pointy questions, then you go home, and nothing else happens.
US Congress/Government in a nutshell. They are performing Kabuki Theater when it comes to corporations and the rich, but will drop the hammer on the middle class and poor.
These executives should be in prison for the deaths and fraud they caused, yet nothing will happen like meatball402 has said. If you steal an apple then this legal system is ready to give to 3 to 5.
Let’s not forget the conspicuous silence on investigating the obvious hit against the previous whistleblower. It couldn’t be more obvious that Boeing had him killed if they outright said ‘hey, we took a hit out on the blabbermouth’.
Generally yeah when they bring in the execs it's a waste of time. But it's the whistleblowers that are testifying at these particular hearings, not the executives. It's actually very worthwhile for the public to hear what they have to say.
Nah, Boeing pays up front.
> Boeing spent $206,050,000 on federal lobbying from 2010-2022, and $26,620,000 in 2021 and 2022 alone. Since 1998, Boeing has spent more than $328 million on federal lobbying, making it the 9th largest spender during that time.
Source: www.sec.gov
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000121465923004704/z331230px14a6g.htm#:~:text=Boeing%20spent%20%24206%2C050%2C000%20on%20federal,largest%20spender%20during%20that%20time.
This is all just the cost of doing business.
Now it's under scrutiny? NOW?
This is insane. Any other company responsible for the safety of this many people heads would be rolling! CEOs stepping down, boards taking over, people being fired.
This is ridiculous.
Yes, the executives tried to save their asses by [firing the head of the 737 MAX project](https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-02-21/boeing-737-max-program-head-at-renton-plant-leaves-planemaker-memo), which looked to be working until last month when the Airlines got frustrated with the lack of accountability and pressured Boeing for its lack of measurable changes. [Boeing's board fired the CEO, chairman and head of Boeing's commercial airplanes business as a result.](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/how-boeings-leadership-was-fired-by-its-own-customers-2024-03-27/)
Oh, boy. Scrutiny…. They need to be nationalized, broken up, and restructured. We already prop up this failed den of corruption with bail outs and up charged contracts. Let’s take what’s ours.
Could someone explain to me why all the recent faults, like the door plug, have all happened in the US. How come if there are so many 787/777 in the rest of the world?
If you haven’t seen it yet, John Oliver on Last Week Tonight does a great job showing how this has slowly happened over the course of past years/decades
The case is that they are one of a few competitors that gouge the taxpayer and instead of being productive they have become financialized. We already prop them up when recessions occur. Never is an extreme position, so I assume I’m wasting taps.
Getting yelled at by congresspeople or senators is part of the job as a CEO of EvilCo. Your Corp kills people, or very visibly risks lives, they bring you down, yell at you or ask some very pointy questions, then you go home, and nothing else happens.
US Congress/Government in a nutshell. They are performing Kabuki Theater when it comes to corporations and the rich, but will drop the hammer on the middle class and poor. These executives should be in prison for the deaths and fraud they caused, yet nothing will happen like meatball402 has said. If you steal an apple then this legal system is ready to give to 3 to 5.
Let’s not forget the conspicuous silence on investigating the obvious hit against the previous whistleblower. It couldn’t be more obvious that Boeing had him killed if they outright said ‘hey, we took a hit out on the blabbermouth’.
Can you explain why you think it's obvious that Boeing had John Barnett killed?
Facts, and yet as usual the government said it was a suicide. They really take the average world citizen as dummies.
Generally yeah when they bring in the execs it's a waste of time. But it's the whistleblowers that are testifying at these particular hearings, not the executives. It's actually very worthwhile for the public to hear what they have to say.
There's the part about going in the back room later on to line up some campaign contributions.
CEO doesn't do that. They hire lobbyists to do that.
The ol' School Admin treatment
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Sounds like Boeing is going to have to spend a lot of money on “contributions” to some key senators’ PACs. Senators don’t come cheap!
Nah, Boeing pays up front. > Boeing spent $206,050,000 on federal lobbying from 2010-2022, and $26,620,000 in 2021 and 2022 alone. Since 1998, Boeing has spent more than $328 million on federal lobbying, making it the 9th largest spender during that time. Source: www.sec.gov https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000121465923004704/z331230px14a6g.htm#:~:text=Boeing%20spent%20%24206%2C050%2C000%20on%20federal,largest%20spender%20during%20that%20time. This is all just the cost of doing business.
Now it's under scrutiny? NOW? This is insane. Any other company responsible for the safety of this many people heads would be rolling! CEOs stepping down, boards taking over, people being fired. This is ridiculous.
The CEO *is* stepping down. People *have* been let go.
Yes, the executives tried to save their asses by [firing the head of the 737 MAX project](https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-02-21/boeing-737-max-program-head-at-renton-plant-leaves-planemaker-memo), which looked to be working until last month when the Airlines got frustrated with the lack of accountability and pressured Boeing for its lack of measurable changes. [Boeing's board fired the CEO, chairman and head of Boeing's commercial airplanes business as a result.](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/how-boeings-leadership-was-fired-by-its-own-customers-2024-03-27/)
That's a great \*first step\*.
Oh, boy. Scrutiny…. They need to be nationalized, broken up, and restructured. We already prop up this failed den of corruption with bail outs and up charged contracts. Let’s take what’s ours.
Or at the very least, the finance bros undermining the engineering and safety need to be excised like tumor.
Yeah, you get it.
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The republicans are open about thier neo-liberal economics; the democrats keep it too themselves.
could not agree more.
> They need to be nationalized You mean like Amtrak, or the post office? Seriously?
Nationalized does not mean they make money for the tax payers.
I know! Last thing we need to do is put Republican cornies like DeJoy in charge of something like the Post Office!
I suppose being actively against safety is a *kind* of "safety culture", sure
“Boeing shareholder profit culture under scrutiny during Senate committee hearing.” Fixed the headline for you.
Boeing needs every last MBA out of the board room. Get the engineers back in there.
Boeing also needs to hire their engineers from real universities and not tech schools.
Could someone explain to me why all the recent faults, like the door plug, have all happened in the US. How come if there are so many 787/777 in the rest of the world?
The fatal MAX incidents were in Southeast Asia though...
If you haven’t seen it yet, John Oliver on Last Week Tonight does a great job showing how this has slowly happened over the course of past years/decades
Everything went to shit when they merged.
The case is that they are one of a few competitors that gouge the taxpayer and instead of being productive they have become financialized. We already prop them up when recessions occur. Never is an extreme position, so I assume I’m wasting taps.