One More on Boeing

Boeing took a bit of a bashing here yesterday, so it's tempting to ease off a bit. I've got nothing against the company and would rather fly in a Boeing than in a EU-subsidized Airbus. But while, in the course of writing the Bank v. U.S. item, I was searching for examples of press scrutiny of wasteful government spending in amounts less than $519 million, I came across the news that Boeing had been granted a no-bid $15.9 million federal stimulus contract for environmental clean up and monitoring at a site that Boeing itself was fined in 2007 for polluting. Green jobs!