tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post7452379960629756792..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Socialist Sawant: Workers Should Take Over BoeingRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-66951061022362446952013-11-20T18:48:27.392-05:002013-11-20T18:48:27.392-05:00Uh, no, it doesn't make sense "for the wo...Uh, no, it doesn't make sense "for the workers to take over the company." Also, it's not clear that Boeing claims "free market principles". Your remark reads like a straw man attack fabricated entirely from your uneducated juvenile imagination.<br /><br />Now, it does make sense to cut Boeing loose from government subsides in the form of contracts for equipment and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-71503911117527432442013-11-20T15:17:03.159-05:002013-11-20T15:17:03.159-05:00Somebody has to supply the knowledge required to b...Somebody has to supply the knowledge required to build a plane, or a bus, or any product with commercial value. What socialists consistently fail to mention is that "Labor" is useless without knowledge and (as Anonymous above suggests,) someone to ante up the capital to get started. But we're supposed to rally around the idea of an idle factory full of idle workers as some kind Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-7258834737334343372013-11-20T13:17:03.154-05:002013-11-20T13:17:03.154-05:00I am trying to understand how a crony company like...I am trying to understand how a crony company like boeing has the right to claim free market principles? Since they lobby for special government privileges, it makes sense for the workers to take over the company. After all, if the company practices socialism, so do the workers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-74249003345725763272013-11-20T05:15:16.156-05:002013-11-20T05:15:16.156-05:00What would be kind of interesting is to see these ...What would be kind of interesting is to see these commie lunatics make an attempt to take over the means of production. With Boeing being a customer in the military industrial complex, i wonder what the military would think of a bunch of pinko's screwing with one of their own. And the hilarious thing is: the majority of American citizens would probably love to see the army go in there and Tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-44342732223940663772013-11-19T20:27:00.569-05:002013-11-19T20:27:00.569-05:00We don't need the executives? Say, isn't t...We don't need the executives? Say, isn't the city council filled with executives? Why don't the people of Seattle take over the city council and retake their rightful ownership. paul tenneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-57800851973478834442013-11-19T19:25:25.798-05:002013-11-19T19:25:25.798-05:00It might not even make it that far. Someone's ...It might not even make it that far. Someone's got to pay for production inputs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-48348471375263394912013-11-19T19:19:22.379-05:002013-11-19T19:19:22.379-05:00It will be entertaining to watch Boeing show up wi...It will be entertaining to watch Boeing show up with the riggers to haul the machines off.Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-87827408063012371042013-11-19T19:17:23.672-05:002013-11-19T19:17:23.672-05:00Yes! "We can re-tool the machines to build Tr...Yes! "We can re-tool the machines to build Trabants and Riga-55 washers."Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-59826157933020130782013-11-19T18:45:51.407-05:002013-11-19T18:45:51.407-05:00A bus in every garage! Ahhh, paradise.A bus in every garage! Ahhh, paradise.Micnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-12003923107125553912013-11-19T17:43:20.206-05:002013-11-19T17:43:20.206-05:00I think they ought to do it.
What could possibly ...I think they ought to do it. <br />What could possibly be better than a real life example of socialist action on a micro-scale?<br />Without hierarchy, no difference in pay. With no difference in pay, no incentive to outperform any of the slackers on the workforce. A nice race to the bottom. Resentment all around. Company down the toilet.<br />Ayn Rand couldn't make this stuff up. Oh wait a Tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-14541184512746496542013-11-19T16:43:54.260-05:002013-11-19T16:43:54.260-05:00This would proceed swimmingly until the paychecks ...This would proceed swimmingly until the paychecks don't show up in the mail. Then, the workers will be rioting wondering how that could happen when they took over the plant like they were told.Pandemichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02315340208949970292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-72765720228282473352013-11-19T15:28:50.200-05:002013-11-19T15:28:50.200-05:00Wow, just like Atlas Shrugged! Good luck with mak...Wow, just like Atlas Shrugged! Good luck with making that work!Miguel D'Anconiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15650695642051943261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-20053290120111565202013-11-19T15:20:18.000-05:002013-11-19T15:20:18.000-05:00Yeah, I can totally see Jeff Bezos bowing down to ...Yeah, I can totally see Jeff Bezos bowing down to this lady. It's more like whatever Jeff Bezos says goes. That's the whole fantasy with these believers in socialism like they can actually tell powerful people what to do. In reality, it's the powerful establishment that corals them. <br /><br />It's like the time when the Coyote finally caught the Roadrunner. Except that the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-16269083542587397422013-11-19T15:08:14.932-05:002013-11-19T15:08:14.932-05:00I guess this dumb bimbo doesn't realize that t...I guess this dumb bimbo doesn't realize that the Soviet Union already tried this idiot Marxian silliness. Result? They ended up with tens of millions dead. Clueless moron.Mikehttp://www.antiwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-59083031581318278982013-11-19T14:57:35.786-05:002013-11-19T14:57:35.786-05:00that would be magnificent to watch, its always gra...that would be magnificent to watch, its always grand to see a part of the elite at war with another yet pretend that nothings going on.Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15417060063126394938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-3968122370454308252013-11-19T14:55:10.494-05:002013-11-19T14:55:10.494-05:00After being alive long enough, it is becoming abun...After being alive long enough, it is becoming abundantly clear that there are very different kinds of people in this world. Our hierarchical specie of hunter/gatherer monkeys is divided into the alphas, betas, and omegas. Our brains are still wired to be living in related groups of about 100. It's the only way this kind of thinking makes any sense to me at all. I can see the need for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com