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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work for American Airlines and I hate everyone. All this talk about small business has made me almost suicidal. I'm going to lose my job, but because you all hate my employer, you're celebrating.

That's my confession. [/quote]

unless you are in senior management at AA, you are very much the "average" worker who will get screwed if the bailouts are not conditioned. I despise the ranks of senior management at all these companies (from banks to airlines to everything in between) that use bailout money to enrich themselves (stock buybacks) and refuse to use that money to pay employees (the "average worker"), contractors, service providers, etc.[/quote]

AA is not going to use bailout money for a stock buyback. That’s something you do when you are flush with cash, not when you have a cash flow problem.

- Senior management at a large travel company, not AA. [/quote]

I'm sorry- my DH works in aerospace and it's awful right now. I think people who are gleeful do not realize the destructive economic impact to our nation's economy if the aviation and aerospace industry was to collapse. I get why people dislike these industries and expect that on the other side, they will be better behaved, but letting them bankrupt-- that's a really bad idea. [/quote]

no one is gleeful and the issue is that bailouts need to be directed to help the workers, not the executives. experience and history show that the workers have rarely been helped by bailouts but the executives get their golden parachutes.

and who was in favor of the bank bailouts in the 2008/9?  the tea party and republicans were all vehemently against this and were advocating to let the banks fail and because  that's what is supposed to happen in a free market/capitalist economy. and since it was done under Obama, he was labeled a socialist.

are these same people now for the current bailout or are they principled and opposing the bailout?  complete bs.  the point is if you want this to work, the bailouts have to go to the workers, but that's not what R's like.[/quote]

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