{"id":519,"date":"2003-12-08T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:19:41","slug":"519","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/08\/519\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike &#8216;Em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing&#8217;s trying to flex its corporate extortion privileges.  If the government spikes the ill-conceived contract to &#8220;lease&#8221; tanker aircraft, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komotv.com\/stories\/28654.htm\" target=\"new\">Boeing will lay off 500 voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blow it out your exhaust vent, Boeing.  I grow weary of the influence you peddle over taxpayer dollars with the threat or offer of jobs.  Sorry to the 500 who&#8217;ll have to find other jobs (which they will; it&#8217;s time they learned you ain&#8217;t the only fish in the sea, just the biggest plankinton-and-krill sucking sea denizen of the blue).  But Boeing, you&#8217;ve been taking tax abatements to come into a community and then being a &#8220;good corporate citizen&#8221; by throwing some crumbs to good local causes and supporting other local corporations&#8211;particularly sports teams (Heaven forbid we are deprived of your glowing logo during the <i><b>national anthem<\/b><\/i> at hockey games). <\/p>\n<p>Me, I pay my taxes to be a good citizen.  And then I go to hockey games.  You just have to go to hockey games.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s my point?  Oh, yeah.  Big corporations sux, and so do the governmental playas who coddle them and who then hump big corporate legs.<\/p>\n<p>500 jobs for $200 billion tax dollars.  A pox on the politicos who thought this was a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing&#8217;s trying to flex its corporate extortion privileges. If the government spikes the ill-conceived contract to &#8220;lease&#8221; tanker aircraft, Boeing will lay off 500 voters. Blow it out your exhaust vent, Boeing. I grow weary of the influence you peddle over taxpayer dollars with the threat or offer of jobs. Sorry to the 500 who&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22262,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/22262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}