The Boeing Fairy Tale

The Boeing Fairy Tale.

 

The citizens of Washington State, especially Greater Seattle, gave the Boeing company one tax break after another.  They paid for water, sewer, power, access roads and many other support systems that benefitted Boeing over the local neighborhoods.  But we were told over and over, until we believed it, that as Boeing prospered, so did Washington state.  We put up with congestion and noise pollution, because we knew there were thousands of men and women making a decent living.  The trade off seemed tolerable.  But Boeing kept pressing for more and more favors until finally the region could not be squeezed any longer.  How did good old Boeing handle this?  Well they just picked up their corporate offices and moved to Chicago, where we can only imagine what kind of a deal they made. 

All these years folks around here talked about needing to be loyal to Boeing because of all they did for us.  But when the shoe was on the other foot, Boeing did not feel any sense of loyalty to the Pacific Northwest.  We had been deceived by our own Fairy Tales. 

 

Curious Carl