Originally Posted by
MechEngr
Federal tax law has made American manufacturing what it is today. How should Boeing buck a trend designed to push manufacturing out of the US? Will Boeing overcome the poor funding and focus of American education? Airbus is a product of European socialism that America literally cannot match. I don't see why anyone has a criticism of Boeing when the country in which it exists has become so poisonous to manufacturing. Would a farmer reasonably blame corn for not growing in salted soil?
In recent years, the US has seen a lot of growth of manufacturing jobs that were previously thought lost. Aerospace is a high skill manufacturing business that is ideally suited to remain in the US, but other manufacturing has returned, through a combination of government incentives and offshore failure to perform.
I don't know why Spirit feels it best to offshore production of some structural components. Seems elaborate.
The US is anything but "poisonous" to business. More like obsequious to business. Boeing's problems are purely of Boeing's own making.