Ren,
Yes, we've heard all of that rehtoric about 'the country's best interest'. But think about this for a minute. It is a known fact that this administration is openly hostile to organized labor; it affects the 'bottom line' too much. Not that they have come out directly and done anything to the labor groups, other than the draconian accounting requirements that companies like Enron et. al. still don't have to comply with. Until you've seen it, you probably wouldn't understand.
So you have an administration that has created an enviroment that management can easily exploit (Freedumb, NO-Jets, Repubic, etc.). These carriers were created with one purpose in mind, and that is to drive down the wages of the rest of the carriers. Notice that I said carriers; this goes all the way up to the majors.
So by lowering yours, along with everybody elses' wages, is this really in the country's 'best interest'? It makes it difficult to pay your bills, make major purchases (without accepting large debt), reduces tax revenues to pay for things like the war in Iraq, the deficit, the national debt, and others. Plus, the bill he just signed the make it far more difficult, if not impossible, to declare personal BK (while corporations have had no change, and I always thought that corporations were treated as individuals under the law). Just something to think about.
Oh, and by the way, before you bash me as some liberal, I am registered republican, voted for W. in 2000, and wished for a true fiscally conservative republican in 2004. But with the damage that W. is doing to this country fiscally, morally and economically, I will say that I did not vote for Kerry, but rather voted against Bush.
Rekks