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White House seeks to fix ailing airline industry- Transportation Secretary LaHood holding forum...
MSNBC ^
| 11/11/09
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Posted on 11/11/2009 1:33:02 PM PST by Nachum
WASHINGTON - Prodded by labor unions, the Obama administration is taking its first step toward trying to fix the ailing airline industry, which could lead to a partial return to economic regulation.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is holding a forum with aviation stakeholders on Thursday to discuss the state of the industry and ways government can help provide economic stability for air carriers. The industry has been rocked by repeated crises in recent years, including the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States; the global SARS virus in 2003; skyrocketing oil prices in recent years; and the current economic downturn.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airline; house; industry; white
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To: Don Corleone
The first steps toward Nationalization (AMTRAK) of the airways. It has to happen under this Communists watch. Yup.
And they'll call it...
AMWAY
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posted on
11/11/2009 1:44:42 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: Nachum
Everytime the government goes to fix something, it costs me more money.
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posted on
11/11/2009 1:44:49 PM PST
by
rawhide
To: Nachum
No sector of the economy is safe from this administration’s claims that it is broken and in need of fixing by the government.
To: Nachum
So the Obama, who couldn't fix a traffic ticket, is now going to GM and Lehman Brother the airline industry? A man has got to know his limitations. Obama should be working on nothing more complex than improving the foot traffic pattern at a Chicago soup kitchen.
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posted on
11/11/2009 1:45:36 PM PST
by
hflynn
(The One is really the Number Two)
To: Nachum
More plums for unions.
This fool president is like a kid at Christmas, with so many new toys he doesn't know which one to play with first...so he goes from toy to toy, destroying each and moving to the next one.
Someone needs to photoshop Zero's "joker" head on the "MASK" body shouting "Somebody Stop ME!!!!"
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posted on
11/11/2009 1:45:43 PM PST
by
FrankR
(To Congress: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10!)
To: Nachum
Amtrak will soon be joined by Amsky.
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posted on
11/11/2009 1:50:53 PM PST
by
Publius
(Do you want the people who run Amtrak to take out your appendix?)
To: VRWCmember
No sector of the economy is safe ... That is why a recession/near-depression is like a candy store to the statists. Every sector is a nail to their hammer, that they can rationalize to their robot supporters to rally behind in another nationalizing/socializing takeover.
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posted on
11/11/2009 1:51:16 PM PST
by
C210N
(A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
To: DonaldC
I’ll just book flights out of Toronto or Winnipeg. I’m only 12 hours away from both cities.
To: Nachum
I can fly from Philly to Denver on Southwest for about $240, round trip. Dirt cheap - just the gas to drive one-way to Denver would cost more than that.
By the time the feds get done, kiss that goodbye.
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posted on
11/11/2009 1:57:18 PM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Nachum
I can fly from Philly to Denver on Southwest for about $240, round trip. Dirt cheap - just the gas to drive one-way to Denver would cost more than that.
By the time the feds get done, kiss that goodbye.
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posted on
11/11/2009 1:57:27 PM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Nachum
Barack Hussein Obama
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posted on
11/11/2009 2:00:15 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
To: Nachum
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
11/11/2009 2:01:32 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: Nachum
All those idiots have to do is take the Empire Builder train from Seattle to Chicago to see how the airlines should treat their passengers. If the airlines treated their customers just one-tenth the way AMTRAK treats theirs, people would be scrambling to fly ..... on the Empire Builder you couldn’t ask for a better group of people to serve you .... they are fantastic!!!!!
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posted on
11/11/2009 2:03:23 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Nachum
OMG, haven’t they ‘helped’ enough.
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posted on
11/11/2009 2:06:38 PM PST
by
Carley
(OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
To: Nachum
Can anyone say Aeroflot? Anyone remember the 1994 Aeroflot crash that was caused because a pilot allowed his 15-year old son to take the controls of the plane? How about the official response to intoxicated pilots of, “It’s not such a big deal if the pilot is drunk?
I can hardly wait for Obamaflot!
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posted on
11/11/2009 2:08:33 PM PST
by
ushr435
To: Nachum
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
mmm...mmm...mmmm
Barack Hussein Obama!
To: Nachum
--
and ways government can help provide economic stability for air carriers. --
Shutter all of them. They're bad for the environment. As for stability, the buggy whip industry is as stable now as it ever was.
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posted on
11/11/2009 2:12:03 PM PST
by
Cboldt
To: Nachum
This is absolutely great! After all, they’ve done so well with the stimulus package, unemployment, and the banking,auto, and housing industries! /sarc
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posted on
11/11/2009 2:12:23 PM PST
by
Real Cynic No More
(The only thing standing between us and complete victory over the evildoers is POLITICS!)
To: ushr435
“Obamaflot?”.....HA, we already have OBAMAFLOP!
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posted on
11/11/2009 2:16:11 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Become a Precinct Committee Person/Officer....in the GOP...or do NOT complain.)
To: Nachum
Unfortunately the airlines are the only industry in America where consumer service could be no worse if they were staffed with time-serving government drones.
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posted on
11/11/2009 2:22:45 PM PST
by
Notary Sojac
("Goldman Sachs" is to "US economy" as "lamprey" is to "lake trout")
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