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Kasz216 on 06 May 2009
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dsister44 said:
Kasz216 said:

17 billion down... 1.5 trillion or so to go.

And he claimed those savings weren't there in the campaign.

Nice to see he was wrong.

 

You know also... I think it's a dick move to cut our contracts on the Fighter planes boeing made... just from like a fairness standpoint.


I mean we promised to buy like 450, and we're going to end up buying less then a dozen... and it's not like Boeing can sell those planes to anyone else due to national secruity.  They got screwed.

 

 

and that will probably lead to some major lay offs as well

Oh yeah.  People will definitly lose their jobs.  Like 5,000 people.

Not as massive as you might expect really... but that's not the issue so much as those 5,000 people were basically assured jobs because of a deal the US government made... and now the US government is going back on it.

For example,  I'm in charge of the shipping and receiving for the college I work at's book store.

We're bout to be aquired by Barnes and Nobles.  If we agreed to buy 200 math books a semester for 6 semesters.  Barnes and Nobles would still be on the hook for those books.  They couldn't go... "We're the new bookstore administration all those old guys have been fired... we aren't buying these."

Or at least I don't think they could.  I'm no corporate law expert.  It bothers me when the government doesn't follow the rules.  Because if your government doesn't follow the rules, why the hell should anyone else.