Not looking good for United (Reuters)

[CRJ's suck]

Obama will be a one term president. He may want a second but he'll be done in 3 1/2.

I hope so. Unfortunately we'll probably still be paying off his term when my kids (they aren't born yet) are my age.

 

[Afixedwing]

I hope so. Unfortunately we'll probably still be paying off his term when my kids (they aren't born yet) are my age.

No, we may still be paying for the Bush administration's catastrophe though.

 

[General Lee]

Obama will be a one term president. He may want a second but he'll be done in 3 1/2.

Thanks Nostradamas. Anyway, tell that to the majority of people who voted for him. The Republicans had better put a better candidate up there and sell him/her better. IF not, it won't happen. Hey, put Gov. Sanford up there, since he was an "up and comer" for the party. Better yet, have Rush Limbaugh speak for you guys. Yeah, you will win alright....


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[SennaP1]

The REP. "Party" can put a Golden Retriever on the next ticket and "GUNS/ABORTION" crowd will vote for the dog.

 

[GoPats]

" The REP. "Party" can put a Golden Retriever on the next ticket and "GUNS/ABORTION" crowd will vote for the dog. "

Sad but true.

 

[T3700]

The Democrats could run a banana slug for president and the Socialist Left would vote for it. And ACORN would make sure it won via voter fraud.

 

[IAHERJ]

The REP. "Party" can put a Golden Retriever on the next ticket and "GUNS/ABORTION" crowd will vote for the dog.

Yep, no kidding. But hey, they have lots of American flag stickers on their cars....

 

[JumpJetter]

Isn't it interest what the bond holders are demanding after the bond holders got the shaft with regard to the GM bankruptcy......

 

[eyeamthechosen1]

I'd proudly PFT to get a job in the porn industry.

That is not much different from how you get laid anyway.

 

[ableone]

To paraphrase what has been said of banks:

"If an airlines' too big to fail, it's too big".

I predict the return of regulation. Soon.

Failure to properly manage their business, their employees future, corporate greed and lack of fiscal responsibility on the part of airlines has attracted the attention and ire of the public and regulators.

Your thoughts, anyone?

None of the air carriers are too big to fail. Chrysler, GM and the large banks all had, and have, the potential to damage the economy as a whole.

There is not an airline out there whose failure will imperil the economy as a whole. In fact the opposite is true; a major failure would do more to shore up the survivors and stabilize the industry than anything else would.

I don't think President Obama is going to even give a failed major more than three minutes of thought. He has had to spend political capital to save GM and Chrysler, there is no way he is going to take a hit to keep a limping airline alive.

Remember when people used to hate the phone company? Well now they hate the airlines.

You can always tell when the airlines raise their fares because every news outlet with a camera starts doing five minute pieces about the "dramatic rise in airfares". This in an industry that has been on life support for ten years.

No politician in any party is going to do jack to save one of the evil, price gauging, worst service in the world - every other adjective you can think of - airlines.

 

[Benhuntn]

Energy and healthcare will do more damage to the economy than the loss of any auto maker or bank.

To the idiot on Bush costs: Bush left us 435 Billion in Debt. Obama already is pushing 3 Trillion. Add Energy and health it jumps to 8-9 Trillion.

 

[jimcav]

Yep, no kidding. But hey, they have lots of American flag stickers on their cars....

What I'm sick of is all the Obama tshirts I see in the airports. I wish they would stop rubbing it in that he won. I didn't run around in a Bush shirt after he beat Kerry. Just goes to show the level of class of some of his fanclub.

 

[Hair-on-Fire]

Energy and healthcare will do more damage to the economy than the loss of any auto maker or bank.

To the idiot on Bush costs: Bush left us 435 Billion in Debt. Obama already is pushing 3 Trillion. Add Energy and health it jumps to 8-9 Trillion.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/29/couricandco/entry4486228.shtml

On the day President Bush took office, the national debt stood at $5.727 trillion. The latest number from the Treasury Department shows the national debt now stands at more than $9.849 trillion. That’s a 71.9 percent increase on Mr. Bush’s watch.

The bailout plan now pending in Congress could add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt – though President Bush said this morning he expects that over time, “much if not all” of the bailout money “will be paid back.”

But the government is taking no chances. Buried deep in the hundred pages of bailout legislation is a provision that would raise the statutory ceiling on the national debt to $11.315 trillion. It’ll be the 7th time the debt limit has been raised during this administration. In fact it was just two months ago, on July 30, that President Bush signed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, which contained a provision raising the debt ceiling to $10.615 trillion.

 

[ableone]

Energy and healthcare will do more damage to the economy than the loss of any auto maker or bank.

To the idiot on Bush costs: Bush left us 435 Billion in Debt. Obama already is pushing 3 Trillion. Add Energy and health it jumps to 8-9 Trillion.

We already have a nationalized health care system. It's called the Emergency Room and it is incredibly expensive and inefficient.

A Bush supporter has ZERO credibility when it comes to deficit spending.

It was Dick Cheney who dismissed deficits as a political problem that was unimportant; "Deficits don't matter." Apparently they did not matter to the Bush administration.

 

[Whataburger]

damn, yall'er f'ed.

 

[nwaredtail]

Energy and healthcare will do more damage to the economy than the loss of any auto maker or bank.

To the idiot on Bush costs: Bush left us 435 Billion in Debt. Obama already is pushing 3 Trillion. Add Energy and health it jumps to 8-9 Trillion.

What a frickin idiot, 10 years of war and only 435 billion in Debt? Get your military head out of your butt and recheck your math.

"The Bush administration, supported by the Federal Reserve and congress, went on a spending binge after 2001 to pull the economy out of its tailspin after the stock market crash. The national debt was $5.5 trillion in 2001 when Bush took office and will be $10 trillion when he leaves. After the 2001 market crash, he will have doubled the US national debt in 8 years to prop up the financial markets. The money was spent on his Iraq war, tax cut programs and any other pork project congress could dream up. No spending bills were vetoed. Loan standards were dramatically loosened and consumers were induced to borrow money and spend it."

But, at least we were "safe"

 

[Hair-on-Fire]

and not a peep about deficits during the last 8 years from you guys.

 

[Flying the Line]

Exactly why I hate BOTH parties.

 

[NEDude]

Republicans are becoming more hypocritical every day.

Bush more than doubles the debt in office and the "fiscal conservatives" are silent. Obama is in office less than six months and they are already losing their voice over all the screaming about debt. Look in the mirror guys.

Family values and fiscally conservative Governor Sanford is being investigated for taking state money to fund trips to Argentina to see his mistress.

Ardent anti-Gay rights Senator Craig gets arrested for soliciting gay sex.

My favorite, defacto leader of the Republican party Rush Limbaugh mocks drug users and addicts on his radio show for claiming it is a sickness, only to get arrested for prescription drug abuse. His excuse - "its a sickness".

Of course there are many others as well.

I am becoming more convinced the more vocal you are in beliefs, the more likely you are to be hiding a skeleton in your closet.

 

[General Lee]

Energy and healthcare will do more damage to the economy than the loss of any auto maker or bank.

To the idiot on Bush costs: Bush left us 435 Billion in Debt. Obama already is pushing 3 Trillion. Add Energy and health it jumps to 8-9 Trillion.

Oooops, you forgot Iraq cost us $1 trillion.(thanks Bush) Your numbers don't add up. Go back to MAF.


Bye Bye--General Lee