Multiple Mishaps Reveal Boeing's Dirty Money Deregulation

After a door plug blew off during a Boeing plane during a flight recently, questions have been asked about how this could have happened. All you have to do is follow the money and it becomes crystal clear how Boeing bought Washington DC so they could get around safety regulations. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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After a door plug blew off during a flight recently, questions have been asked how this could have happened. All you have to do is follow the money and it becomes crystal clear, doesn't it, Farron, about what Boeing's up to. They're just paying off regulators. They're paying off pros. Uh, I was gonna say, I started say prostitutes.

You didn't get it wrong.

Prostitutes. I was going, I was thinking Congress, congressional prostitutes. So they're paying off, they're paying these people off. I mean, huge money. Mega $40 million, $60 million kinda money.

Yeah. Boeing, and just for anybody who's not aware of it, even though it's been national news, you had that door in the middle of a flight, you're 35,000 feet in the air, door plug blows, door comes flying off airplane. And this is the latest in a string of mishaps, we'll call them, that Boeing airplanes have suffered in recent years. We've had two very fatal crashes. We had the woman that almost got sucked out of the plane and now the door plug. And so a lot of people are wanting answers. And well, if you want answers, go to the Lever because the Lever put it all together as per usual.

As usual. I mean, these guys are great.

And they followed all of this dirty money that bought them deregulation.

It's just amazing, the capability. I don't think in corporate media there's such a thing as investigative journalism anymore. But you have people that are doing it. You've got the Lever, you've got some folks just like that. I mean, we've got about five sources that we go to, and this is one of them. And they just always get it right. Look, Spirit, what happens, there's Spirit corporation which supplies, I think it's 70% of the parts for Boeing. In other words, they basically build the airplane.

And it's a spinoff of Boeing. So they are tied right at the hip there.

Exactly. So you have employees that are saying they know what they're doing. We're complaining all the time about defects. We're complaining all the time about shoddy workmanship. And they're telling us to shut up. Don't say anything, conceal it. This is coming from their own employees. The Lever was smart enough to get a few of them understatement and this is what they're saying. How about 2018 and 2019, what 346 people killed? 346 people killed by the very kind of thing, it was something wrong with the airplane, some defect with the airplane. Somebody didn't do their job in making the part, whoever it was that distributed the part covered it up, concealed it. It's the same thing, man. Every time.

And when these things happen, what Boeing does is they get their lobbyists, they get their checkbooks out, they go to Washington, DC and they say, hey, listen, we've got the FAA or whoever it is, sniffing our tail right here. We need them to not be. Uh, hey, you've got this rule right here that says we're not allowed to do this, or we have to go through X number of safety checks. Cut that down. Cut it down to one safety check or maybe we just fill it out ourselves and send it into you. That's all we have to do. You don't even have to send your people, oh, by the way, I totally forgot. Here's your $5 million. And these lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, both of them, they make the phone calls to these federal agencies and they say, get off their backs.

Ron Estes from Kansas Republican, pressures the Federal Aviation Administration say, look, you need to have, you need to move this faster. You need to deregulate some so Spirit who supplies the parts can continue making defective parts. That's just one Republican. Here's Democrat, Democrat Maria Cantwell. Well, she holds herself out as this really.