Reply #3: Guess the Airline Industry hasn't given enough in campaign donations

[havocmom]

One wonders if We The Taxpayers will be called upon AGAIN to come up with $$ for them as the industry withers and dies a little faster.

Personally, I think most of the 'airport security' was aimed at getting the common citizen to stop using air travel. They always fail tests about smuggling weapons materials on planes while they use brown shirt attitudes to nit-pick about what law abiding citizens are carrying. Seems we have been more tolerant and patient than the policy makers figured on. We still want to travel. Time to surge against travelers a bit more?

How many pilots and other industry workers getting close to what's left of their retirement benefits? Could a breakdown of the industry get some airlines off the hook for retirement payments? Yes, I AM that cynical.

The powers that be don't care about our needs. They probably are uncomfortable with us traveling around freely. They have already been listening to our communications. Perhaps they don't want us sharing info and ideas face to face?

Policies seem to be set by what ever industry has the most pull now. No juice, no way to survive in the new corporate wars for the money. The guys running the airline industry seem to be S.O.L.

If We The People feel free to move about our nation, we might get the idea that we still have freedom. They want us to get over that notion.

It's win/win for the rich and powerful