Random Nuclear Strikes

The Seattle City Council’s newest councilwoman-elect, Kshama Sawant, went to a rally being held by the Boeing Machinist’s (who just turned down a decent contract proposal from the company), where she called Boeing’s thoughts on moving the 777X production line out of state because of the union’s frequent labor disruptions “economic terrorism”.

She proposed that if Boeing does decide to move production out of state, that the machinists should squat the current production facility and take it over.

“The only response we can have if Boeing executives do not agree to keep the plant here is for the machinists to say the machines are here, the workers are here, we will do the job, we don’t need the executives. The executives don’t do the work, the machinists do,”

She neglects to think about the engineers who design the planes and the rest of the company infrastructure that sells the planes. But hey, she’s a Socialist. She wouldn’t know how a company works.

“We can re-tool the machines to produce mass transit like buses, instead of destructive, you know, war machines,”

When she says “war machines” she is referring to the drones that none of these workers build. But hey, she’s a Socialist. A plane is a plane, right?

And a mass transit bus is just like a plane too. It carries people from Point A to the rest of the alphabet, except it doesn’t have wings, right? I am sure that Boeing is already tooled to build heavy duty diesel engines, right?

She’s a Socialist. What difference does it make?

I have a feeling that this woman is going to lend herself frequently to RNS Quote of the Day post.