Support Free Republic FReepathon Day 58.
Posted on 11/27/2012 4:58:10 PM PST by Libloather
In return I’m guessing those same airlines will pimp the climate change garbage to the rest of us.
She would care? ;-)
I’m as free market as Rush, but when you have a system where the government exists to indemnify one powerful lobbying group from the mountain of suffocating laws that everyone else has to play under, the system’s broke, and little more than a protection racket.
Exactly what I was thinking. The airlines aren’t getting the exemption for nothing.
Okay, what’s wrong with this picture? He just took a pass on making our airline industry less competitive. He WHAT?
Let me guess, the Europeans or the U. N. have already assured him the airlines can’t get out of this, and the hit is already scheduled to be someone else’s fault.
eco-nuts
eco-nuts will riot?
no?
Obama must have misread the bill. It was meant to PUNISH U.S. carriers, not help them.
Since before Hamurabi. Government has always been a protection racket.
/johnny
“Obama must have misread the bill. It was meant to PUNISH U.S. carriers, not help them.”
Whoops, got that backwards. The EUROPEAN scheme was meant to punish US carriers.
This will be in return for allowing foreign airlines to fly domestic routes in the US.
I remember back in the 70’s that the french SST didn’t meet U.S. noise requirements, so they somehow reached “an agreement” to allow it to land at JFK only. Not an exact parallel, but interestingly similar.
Kinda like Jenny Granholm giving tax breaks to the film industry. She could have come off as a hero if she had given those same breaks to all.
In a former life I flew for Pan Am, during a stormy summer day at JFK, traffic was backed up for hours. The BA Concorde took off at night. It was an amazing sight to see all 4 afterburners on takeoff and departure.
Makes sense. The dems want the money for this carbon crap not providing a free gift to the EU.
Support Free Republic Welcome to libertarianism.
Correct. I agree with the decision, but not the 19th century mercantilist logic that got to the decision.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.