HERE’S HOW Fark summarized this KOMO-TV report about Boeing’s latest job-blackmail shenanigans: “Washington State approves $3 billion tax cut for Boeing. Boeing responds by laying off more workers.”

Need more be said?

Actually, at least a little more.

The company that, as much as any, made modern global business possible insists upon re-imaging itself as a global-age enterprise, no matter how costly or inefficient the move may turn out to be. Management is out to permanently eliminate as much of the old Boeing culture of middle-class American working-stiff stability as possible. The 7E7 assembly line, for which Washington’s politicians would sell all our souls, would only employ as few as 800 people. Big components and subassemblies, even the all-important wing work, will be parceled out to subcontractors, non-union states, sweatshop countries, and nations whose government-owned airlines might consider buying a couple of the finished planes.

There comes a point when a state’s just gotta say it won’t play the coddle-the-CEO game over such low payoffs. Let’s hope in this state it’s soon.