Mamma
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So its OK for you to call names and point fingers. Hmmmm. The economy, to the best of my memory was pretty damn hot most of Bush's tenure. It went in the toilet over the last year and a half or so of his tenure. Did the Democrat majority have anything to do with it? Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and the sub-prime policies? Where were the Dems helping us out? I am not trying to make this partisan but I am tired of mindless lemmings like you pointing blame in only one direction. Do you run around in life with bliders on? Let me give you a little clue....they are ALL corrupt bastards. Focusing your finger in only one direction allows all the rest of the dirty corrupt bastards to get away.
Hey you idiot the man has only been in office one week. He didn't put this country in a recession. Fuel didn't go to a all time high under his watch. Foreclosures at a all time high didn't come about under his watch. Airlines didn't go into bankruptcy under his watch (Delta, US Airways, United, ATA, Frontier, Northwest, Aloha, Independence Air, Skybus, Champion).
I do know that under the previous administration we watched our industry get beat down. Pilots lost their pensions, labor contracts have been destroyed, and the National Mediation Board has used the previous administration guidelines to prevent managements from negotiating labor contracts fairly by stalling and finding loop holes against labor.
PLEASE don't make this a political topic. This countries ECONOMY has gone to HELL in the last eight years! Any airline pilot here who hasn't felt it is being very naive. You may not like who the next president is, but he is the president! He has a monumental task to turn this countries economy around and he needs the support of the american people. The problems with this economy stem from GREED and SELFISHNESS! Look at that piece of trash that gave millions of dollars in bonus' to Merrill Lynch executives, then had the nerve to ask us the tax payers to bail his ass out! Back in 2002 Stephen Wolf and his executives asked the government for a bailout through the ATSB Loans and then walked away with 35 million dollars. US Airways went into bankruptcy and the pilots lost their pensions.
Things will probable get a little worse before they get better. But at least we didn't hear that the economy was sound for a whole year before the previous administration would admit that we were in a recession. Don't make this about our president, it's about your damn CEO's that are stealing from the american people and the hard workers of this country! Now, back to my breakfast!!!!