Boeing Manager or Stockholder Speaks?

I noticed a link to this blog on my page this evening.  Although the author has posted a picture, he omitted mentioning his name.  I am sure many of you will find this predictable and laughable.  I post it here for your entertainment along with my reply.   GFS

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Coastcontact’s Postscript Weblog

Link:  http://coastcontact.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/the-lowest-cost-means-the-highest-net-income/#comment-425

 

October 28, 2009

The Lowest Cost Means the Highest Net Income

Filed under: Business, Happiness — coastcontact @ 9:46 pm

The average hourly pay rate in the state of Washington is $22.32.  The average hourly pay rate in South Carolina is $17.33.  So Boeing Company has decided to build their new 787 Dreamliner in a North Charleston facility in that Southern state.  Of course there is also an incentive package by South Carolina that sealed the deal.

The lesson learned is that free enterprise always looks for ways to lower its cost of doing business.  The state of Washington does not own Boeing.  There is no pact that requires their allegiance to that state’s population.  Lockheed moved from Los Angeles to Atlanta.  Technicolor has moved its CD and DVD manufacturing facilities that was located in Virginia and California to Mexico.  Many companies have outsourced their manufacturing to other countries. 

Let me put this another way.  Stock holders are not interested in providing welfare.  They are interested in net profit.  This too is part of America Incorporated.  Any questions? 

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 Dear nameless “Coastcontact” blogger:

It is my considered opinion upon observing what is currently happening, Washington State is no longer interested in providing welfare to greedy, ungrateful and self-serving corporations either.  How about Boeing buck up, pony up, and pay all the back taxes they’ve deferred over the decades?  And while we’re on the subject, stop flying customers out of WA airspace to sign the sales contracts, and pay the WA state taxes for planes made here?  

By the way, your lack of consciousness to any other ethical element, (beyond “profit for profit’s sake”), that should go into decision making regarding business decisions is quite illuminating about your own values and frame of reference.  Remember what goes around, comes around; it is not necessary for you to believe for that process to occur. 

 GFS

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1-18-10    Don Evans, Coastcontact blogger, replies:

Greetings

I appreciate your interest in my blog

My response to your posting is as follows:

First, I do not understand why knowing my name will improve reader knowledge.  Ham radio operators have “handles” too.  I am not trying to hide.  Second, the purpose of this entry was to explain how business works.  I did not say I supported this behavior.  If you take the time to read other entries in my blog you will realize I am a “bleeding heart liberal” on most social issues.  I am also a fiscal moderate.  I understand exactly why the government gave money to American auto manufacturers and banks.  The consequence of not taking that action would have been even more devastating to the nation’s economy.

Don Evans

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1-18-10    My reply:

Thank you for your reply.  I will look at the rest of your blog.  Time did not permit that yesterday.  I am not primarily about focusing on criticizing the bailout, but am committed to supporting government and industry whistleblowers.  I have more knowledge about government and defense contracting  due to my many friends and associates in that arena, both in the government and at defense contractor corporations.  You very much sounded like some of the people who post, who are managers or sometimes co-opted employees of Boeing, who usually post anonymously and who spout the company rhetoric and attack the honest people in Boeing who are trying to address problems and getting beat up for trying.

I do not know what your background and experience is specifically, but if you had the knowledge I currently have about that company and it’s business dealings and how many open investigations are being conducted at all levels of our government oversight, you might better understand my mission and postings.

I do not accept the “that’s the way it is” attitude you presented.  In fact that company often says “It’s just a business decision” when questioned about some of their actions.  It is not necessary or required for things to operate that way, and in fact, that kind of unethical business behavior is taking our country down.  There is a long line of government and corporate whistleblowers who have tried to do the right thing and have had their careers, lives and families decimated for doing so.  And they’ve gotten very little support and help from our government oversight, elected politicians, or frankly the legal community due to the economic power, influence, and intimidation ability wielded by that company.   It must stop.  I will post your response on my blog with the original information.  Thank you for taking time to write.  GFS

Douglas Kinan expresses disgust with a corrupted federal system, Ken Pedeleose’s victimization

Here is a heartfelt and sincere statement from Douglas Kinan on behalf of a number of whistleblowers  including Kenneth Pedeleose.  Mr. Pedeleose is in need of support from all of you.  He needs more people to apply pressure to assure a real investigation and a real prosecution of those who who break laws and abuse whistleblowers happen now.  Please contact Mr. Kinan for copies of pertinent information.  (See his email contact below.)  Thank you!  GFS

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Another major cover up, a fraudulent report and scapegoating of lower level supervisors. Same old M.O.

In view of Admiral Mullen’s knowledge of military cover ups, he should be ashamed of the conduct and the record of the DoD Inspector General’s “dysfunctional,” criminal operation.

My bet is that DoD Inspector General, Gordon Hedell and his dysfunctional group are directly involved because cover-ups are what they do best.

Gates, Mullen and Mueller know or should know about their criminal activity.

The “investigation” is a total sham on the American public and the victims of Fort Hood.

Is there anyone that believes the chain of command was not aware of Hasan’s conduct? If so, send for my affidavit.

As a former DoD employee responsible for monitoring 29 CFR 1614 investigations, the directives are clear: cover up at all costs. I refused and reported criminal activity, including frame-ups of innocent employees to the IG Hotline Director, Leonard C. Trahan, Jr., and the chain of command. Secretary Gates says that the military needs to deal with danger “openly and honestly,” yet he is ignoring a record of continuing criminal activity by his subordinates.

Concerning the criminal activity and frame-ups, the Defense Contract Management Agency’s Chief Counsel, Bruce Krasker stated, “We (the Legal Directorate) can do anything we want. It’s called gaming. We can deny, we can delay…dismiss. We can manipulate the system any way we want.”

Krasker knew he could make this boast because he had cover from Trahan and the IG chain of command.

Krasker and his former Deputy Jerome C. Brennan insisted on framing innocent employees and engaging in other criminal activity, using millions of tax dollars to do it.

Trahan rationalized the frame-ups this way: “There were two EEO cases in the District in which Mr. Kinan disagreed with the decisions made by [the Equal Employment Manager] and the [DCMDE Chief Counsel.] Instead of accepting those decisions “as reasonable people can disagree”, they became a ‘cause celebre’ for Mr. Kinan.”

Thus far, Trahan has been unable to produce that “reasonable” person who thinks framing an innocent person is okay except for his cronies.

Trahan, a “retired Army CID agent” with approximately 40 years experience, should know that framing two innocent people is not “two EEO cases” – it’s framing two innocent people. It’s a felony. Trahan watched two innocent individuals anguish for 50 – 60 months and allowed them to be stripped of their career and full pension.

The most recent frame up, using the same M.O., is that of Kenneth Pedeleose. Pedeleose is a senior industrial engineer with the DCMA who objected to, and blew the whistle on the Lockheed C-5 parts scandal: $744.00 for washers, $714.00 for a rivet, $5,217 for a 1-inch metal bracket and $2,522 for a 4-inch metal sleeve. According to a Federal Times April 5, 2004 story, Pedeleose’s whistle blowing “resulted in government savings of $34 million according to the [Department of Defense] estimates.” In 2008, his peers named Pedeleose “Employee of the Year – 2007.”

In a June 28, 2006 sworn interview with the NSA, Trahan describes Pedeleose this way: “disruptive, disloyal and counterproductive.” Trahan’s false statements suggest that he is at the front of Pedeleose’s retaliation. Trahan has demonstrated that he is impervious to DoD rules and regulations and the law. Trahan’s conduct is a serious contradiction to what the DoD IG represents to the government and is un-American.

In a conflict of interest, the AIG for Policy and Oversight, James L. Pavlik, covered up for Trahan by conducting a fraudulent investigation, making false official statements and issuing a fraudulent report to deceive Senator Grassley.

After he reviewed my 30-page affidavit, Pavlik writes: “We found that Mr. Kinan has repeatedly distorted the factual record by asserting only some of the relevant facts in order to convince others that he was wronged by the system.” Pavlik even lied about lying.

One of the worse aspects of the DCMA’s retaliatory frame-ups is the promotions given out in exchange for false testimony, which cheats all federal employees out of merit based promotions.

The public should be outraged at this sham. The victims and the families of the Fort Hood massacre deserve better than this.

Covering up frame-ups is one thing – covering up murder is another.

Mr. Kinan is an Officer of the Court – an Assistant Deputy Register with the Massachusetts Trial Court. He is on the Board of Directors for the Boston State Hospital Project and Treasurer of the Boston Community Trust. Mr. Kinan’s affidavit, Trahan’s official cover up statement and his request to Senator Lieberman to be a government witness is available on request at dougkinan@yahoo.com

Washington State Wants Boeing to Pay Lip Service

Bill would make Boeing say it cares about

Washington

 

An interesting piece appeared recently in the Seattle Times regarding a new Bill which would address some of the frustration Washington legislators are feeling with the Boeing Company.  Seattle Times deputy business editor, Rami Grunbaum, quotes WA Representative, Brendan Williams as making this statement after Boeing turned their back on WA as the site for their new 787 line:

“Every time one of their demands is satisfied,” he says, “all of a sudden they have another bill. And at the end of the day, they move production to South Carolina anyway.”

Williams, who was joined by 16 other House members in proposing H.B. 2316, says he’s “not motivated by some sort of hostility towards Boeing.” But he asserts there’s “a sort of economic terrorism that’s going on” with the aerospace industry’s continued pressure for tax and regulatory changes.”

 

Link to article: 

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2010807161&zsection_id=2003907475&slug=sundaybuzz17&date=20100116