[Vision2020] A few statistics

Tina Cunningham kittz_cat@yahoo.com
Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:07:18 -0800 (PST)


I agreed with the government the FIRST time they
bailed out the airlines......but this is getting
ridiculous!

Tina Cunningham



--- Bill Strand <strand@pacsim.com> wrote:
> I’m a bit uncertain as to why we are suddenly
> picking on the airlines. You
> can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a subsidized
> entity. My tax dollars
> help pay the salaries of a lot of people on this
> list. How about farm
> subsidies? Who pays for the roads you drive on?
> 
> But like the farming industry, the road
> infrastructure and the educational
> system - the airline industry is a strategic part of
> the American economy.
> Many times, strategic decisions are made that are
> independent of the “bottom
> line”. That doesn’t make the airlines an “automatic”
> for receiving
> government aid, but we need to think a little more
> holistically then just
> the profit margin.
> 
> Bill Strand
>
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