Boeing Is Also Leaving Chicago Because Of Rampant Crime And High Taxes: Mass Exodus Includes Chicago Bears, Citadel, Tyson Foods...
In the last several months, three large companies have announced they are moving their headquarters out of the Chicago area — and the latest one has cited growing crime in the city as one of the primary reasons for leaving. Boeing Co.’s decision to leave C...
The left always collapses under the weight of their own stupid policies.
Then they blame Republicans and their voters keep the same people who causes the collapse in power.
It’s truly insane.
The crazy thing to me, is how many leftists still go along with radical left policies in large cities.
Stupid is not going to stop being stupid
The model city for leftist is Detroit. We're not far from a lot more Detroit's, not just Chicago.
What does Beetlejuice have to say about this??
Hmmm…what noise does a fish make?
These same companies bought into all this crap several years ago. Most of them get big tax breaks anyway putting more pressure on residents. The problem is there are no consequences for most residents as they rent and it is almost impossible to evict in Crook County. I could write a ten page post on the bull shit of property taxes alone, but typical property owners and small businesses leasing on triple net get screwed.
The move to Chicago was in 2001. Obama did not become president until 2009. It was a deliberate move to distance corporate headquarters from the commercial airplane business in Seattle (which some board members thought "cramped" Boeing's business strategy) and to be less time-zone sensitive to business operations on both coasts. There was also the suspicion that the top brass wanted to show off a skyscraper for headquarters.
The new move to the Washington DC area is a reflection of the "Government Suck-Up" business model that the largely legacy McDonnell management prefers.
I worked 40 years for Boeing in Seattle and the 1997 merger was the worst thing that happened to us. We were the victims of the General Electric / Jack Welch theory of business management.
MacDac (as we called them) had nothing to bring to the table. They had lean-sized their operation so much that when orders began to increase for their DC-9s and DC-10s, they had no production capacity with which to increase the output. When the merger happened, it meant the doom of the former Douglas aircraft component.
The bright idea was that by merging, the Company would be more "balanced" with respect to civilian and military production, one side going up to balance the other going down, in the characteristic waves of the industry. The only problem is that the work forces were not co-located, so there was never any benefit of real balance.
The article said they're going to Virginia.
Shrunken heads never make good mayors.
Good. Defund Chicago
McDonalds will be next
Florida is happining for aviation.