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Normally you’re supposed to make money off of pork though.
Those jobs and money buy houses and put kids through college, despite not delivering astronauts safely.

Ultimately, it's what we collectively decided is more important.

Sounds like broken window fallacy to me. We pay for projects with the expectation that they will not provide value, but somebody gets paid. That’s the same as breaking windows across town so some people can get paid to fix them
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The communities where Boeing employees live did indeed make money.
Eh, I don’t think thats true either. Here in Washington it’s not exactly secret Boeing is trying to hollow out their local workforce.

Unless you’re at the executive level, Boeing is “heads we win, tails you lose.”

Will someone think of the share-holders?!
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