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KT2000

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3. that's the way Boeing does it -

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 03:41 AM

Nov 2013

extortion all the time.
Rumor had it that back in the 90s there were a lot of workers injured by working with new composite materials. People had really serious damage that turned them into poverty stricken people who could never work again. Boeing did not want their illnesses recognized and threatened to leave the state if they were paid workers comp. A few of the workers were so desperate they killed themselves.

Washington has been blackmailed by Boeing for decades.

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