The title is a bit click baity, but the point here is that Boeing isn't the one paying for the current shut down. The way the industry operates is that suppliers, like Spirit, don't get paid until 90 days after the airplane is delivered. No deliveries in over a year yet until recently they were still expected to deliver parts. Boeing is also taking payments on the airplanes every time they paint them, 1/3 on order, 1/3 on paint, and 1/3 on delivery.

It's the optics that are bad. Boeing CEO creates a culture where the 737MAX was designed and delivered, and failed.