The current state of the airline industry Options

[Hartmann]

Things are getting really ugly, really quick.

United has reduced capacity, is cutting staff, and is killing of their low-cost carrier TED.
US Airways has not fulfilled its order for two planes that could fly their new route to China, so they'll lose the route and they're reducing capacity.
The Delta/Northwest Merger isn't complete yet, so who knows the outcome.
Continental announced this morning that they are reducing capacity and cutting some staffing.
ExpressJet (who Continental employs to fly their little jets) is on the verge of Ch11.
Southwest has raised fares considerably.
JetBlue has cut a number of routes.
AA is nickel and diming customers to make up the costs.


yikes.

[Oasis]

I admit I think a LOT of shit needs to be changed with the government. I think someone is going to rise up and take down certain corrupt elected officials...and of course the government will write it him off as a terrorist and tell everyone so. Only difference between this time and previous times (McVeigh, etc) is that I think people will actually listen to what the guy has to say and maybe, just maybe, agree with him. I keep reading more and more stories about these corrupt government assholes who misappropriate public funds, lie, cheat and steal, etc....and all they're given is a proverbial slap on the wrist. If an American citizen did those things we'd be in prison. That's the thing that bothers me - elected officials answer to no one for their indiscretions. Do you really think their fellow government cronies they're in cahoots with are really going to take them down for the good of the American population? Of course not. Who should be holding them accountable? Us. Of course everyone is a chickenshit and uses the convenient excuse that it's our fault because we elected them in to office. Doesn't fly with me. I'll only hold myself accountable for electing an official in to office if I know exactly what he's going to be doing for the next four years. Of course that's impossible. Using my Chisum example, even in the bible belt of Texas, do you think he would have been elected if he ran on a platform that supported a two month waiting period for battered wives to get a divorce? People in West Texas are pretty ignorant but they're not completely retarded. He would have lost the election in a landslide. That's my point. We elect people people then have to wait four years while they pass through ridiculous laws and fuck up god knows what else and we can't do anything to remedy it. WE should start holding them accountable. Be it through violence or something else. Teach these fuckers a lesson that they do have someone to answer to and they can't get away with whatever they want.

Call me whatever you want. Anarchist is fine. A lot of my views probably are anarchistic. The only difference is my way of fixing things and what I want to see done is completely opposite of what "normal" anarchists want. The only thing we have in common is we both want change.