Democrats want to take all our money and return to us one dime out of each dollar.
Republicans want to take all our money and give it to corporations and the wealthy.
Neither is acceptable!
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The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
Between March 27, 2008 and April 12, 2008 American Airlines voluntarily grounded 300 of their airplanes, canceling 3,300 flights. The grounding of the planes was to perform inspections of wiring harness that were mandated by the FAA. American Airlines failed to perform these inspections as scheduled for reasons yet unknown. The cancelation of these flights in the last week of the groundings stranded hundreds of thousands of people during a normal work week. The financial losses as a result of these hundreds of thousands of people being stranded is incalculable. American estimates their losses was easily more than $30 million. Continue Reading » »
A couple of weeks ago Southwest Airlines was forced to ground several of their planes to perform government required safety inspections that had been overdue for as long as 30 months. Southwest was fined over $10 million for the violation. Since then several other airlines have voluntarily grounded hundreds of their planes to perform overdue inspections. Continue Reading » »
According to the Pentagon, China spent as much as $139 billion on their military in 2007. A large chunk of this was spent on trying to steal information from the United States. Continue Reading » »
CNN filed a report tonight on the status of United Airlines’ outsourcing of the maintenance on their airplanes to China. In China, only supervisors are required to be licensed. China does not require drug & alcohol testing, and no background checks for security are performed.
A new airlines “Passenger Rights Bill” is supposed to take effect January 1, 2008. There is a lot of talk about this on the news and in other sources. All of the airlines are fighting to prevent the bill from passage.
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