The Downfall of Boeing – An Insider's Perspective (2003) (airliners.net)

This is incredible, what a harbinger. This is a great dissection of how things went wrong. A number of other companies have also followed this narrative, albeit not as memorably

Countries need laws to protect against outsourcing, offshoring and to encourage vertical integration of building things inside the country. It gives the nation and its people a great sense of pride when this happens, a sense of pride and ownership Boeing has apparently not had for at least 21 years.

Due to the high cost of labor it is also something that is missing in the United States.

We need laws like a U.S. firm can only hire us citizens or that only products developed by citizens or by a visa holders can be consumed in the us.

love the white knights jumping to their corporate overlord's defense in the first couple comments