What do you think about income inequality?

emeraldkity4
Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:42:57 +0000

I’m seeing wealthy entrepreneurs bypass the US, starting their new companies in places with lower cost labor and good tax rates and incentives.

You might talk to Boeing about that.
Re the article I posted earlier- when you have your manufacturing in countries that do not have the needed experience/work ethic ( Italy) or even in other states where cost is lower but the same lack of experience etc. applies- then maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that it isn’t quite the money saving venture they thought it would be.

The 787 Dreamliner is the most technically advanced commercial aircraft ever built, and its cutting-edge information technology systems have been a selling point for Boeing, along with the jet’s lighter, largely composite structure, which promises greater fuel efficiency and creature comforts like higher humidity in onboard air. Boeing also outsourced a far greater degree of its design and manufacturing than on any other of its aircraft, a move intended to slash development costs.

But with the recent systems failure, the measures that made the jet ground-breaking have all contributed to its production woes. The 787 is running nearly three years late as Boeing dealt with a litany of problems: shoddy supplier work, a shortage of titanium fasteners and unanticipated structural weakness in the plane’s composite fuselage.

“The manufacturing didn’t work as planned; the materials and now the systems architecture didn’t work as planned,” said aerospace blogger Jon Ostrower. “The three main foundations that are driving development and innovation on this program have given them enormous heartache.”

[787 Dreamliner proving bedeviling for Boeing - Chicago Tribune](787 Dreamliner proving bedeviling for Boeing)