Nothing the government has done seems to have slowed the world wide economic contraction under way.

McNerney said Boeing will cut about 10,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its work force, this year because of the global recession and industry downturn. That's up from the 4,500 commercial job losses in the Puget Sound area in 2009 that Boeing announced earlier in the year. The additional 5,500 job cuts, to come mostly through layoffs and attrition, will be across the company, including Washington state, where nearly half of Boeing's 162,000 employees worked at the end of last year.