Just read that now that Spring has purchased Clearwire, it will be laying off 161 people in Belleveue and Kirkland, Washington. I don’t pretend to know anything about economics, but I must say that it seems like every time a large company decides to lay people off, it always chooses the Washington or Oregon portion of its work force. Hate sounding like a conspiracy theorist, but this is what seems to happen ever single time.