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Economy
Blame the Wealthy, Not the Left, for Seattle's Coming Decline
2020-09-04
[TheStranger] It seems Seattle is on the path for a very bad 2021 and 2022. This possibility will become all the more real if Boeing decides to concentrate its production of the 787 Dreamliner planes in South Carolina.

The decision, the Seattle Times reports, might be made as early as next month. And if Boeing does move two of its assembly lines over to South Carolina, which is very likely, then an estimated 30,000 employees in Everett are "expected to be the loser[s]." This job loss would extend and deepen the recession that greater Seattle is presently experiencing.

Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin to the Times: "Losing the 787 assembly line 'would be devastating for our local economy.'" Not only that, but the jobs that would go to South Carolina would never come back.
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#14  understood, Raj
Posted by: Frank G   2020-09-04 22:54  

#13  Sorry - I can't figure out why I'm doing double posts; not my intention.
Posted by: Raj   2020-09-04 21:18  

#12  Desecrate a statue of Chris Cornell (leave aside all the others for a moment)? These are clearly not thinking people. I trust I don't need to elaborate on this.
Posted by: Raj   2020-09-04 21:17  

#11  Desecrate a statue of Chris Cornell (leave aside all the others for a moment)? These are clearly not thinking people. I trust I don't need to elaborate on this.
Posted by: Raj   2020-09-04 21:17  

#10  Yes, just as whitey is solely responsible for all of brown peoples' problems, the rich are solely responsible for all the poor's problems. I mean, none of these downtrodden folk would ever make a bad choice on their own...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-09-04 17:50  

#9  Suffer.
Posted by: Regular joe   2020-09-04 15:40  

#8  We always welcome good jobs--and good employers--here in SC. Perhaps that is why people move here from locations that are less welcoming.
Posted by: Tom   2020-09-04 14:33  

#7  Why not blame both? I call them Bourgeoisiesheviks.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2020-09-04 13:05  

#6  The wealthy left because of the left policies. This article is ignorance piled on bullcrap.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-09-04 11:14  

#5  About the author: Charles Tonderai Mudede, The Stranger’s film editor, is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer.
Posted by: Matt   2020-09-04 09:34  

#4  Because the right is not offering a real solution to the city's economic problems,

It's call the invisible hand of the market. You screw over the market, the market and people go elsewhere. Being a commie, you can't comprehend that.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-09-04 07:19  

#3  Cranes are associated with elevated Land values which tend to be associated with rent-seeking which is unearned income which will attract the left (and country-club repubs).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-09-04 07:06  

#2  Do like Biden suggested: Learn to code!

Yeesh, am I the only one who can figure these things out?
Posted by: gorb   2020-09-04 01:48  

#1  Yes, it's all the Right's fault.

And the wreckers and the splittists!

Because the right is not offering a real solution to the city's economic problems,

What actual "Right" even exists in Seattle?

Anyway, given the overlap between "rich" and "left" in blue areas, I'm fine with them all sinking with their Titanic.
Posted by: charger   2020-09-04 00:17  

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