With the sound of marching drums in Iraq, only one sound is sure to follow. Of course, I'm talking about the sound of...ringing cash registers?
House, Senate Approve War Appropriations
The number's are finally in folks, and the war is going to cost you and me over $80 billion smackers, which is about 7 billion more than President Bush's predictions. Now I don't know you handle your debts but I already have trouble coming up with the dough to split a bar tab on a Saturday night let alone having to come up with $40 billion to pay for a war? Does Congress think I wash my armpits with hundred-dollar bills each morning?
Two bills were approved by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and each included dough for the war effort, anti-terrorism and homeland security measures and appropriations for airlines. Now I know that a lot of businesses have been affected dramatically by the war, but no one has been hurt more than the airlines. After 9/11 and now a full blown war, airlines have had to meet federal mandates by not only hiring more airport security personnel, but this time, THEY HAVE TO ACTUALLY TRAIN THEM. They're only wasting the money. I mean before if the people who run and manage security at airports don't have the knowledge to spot a gun in a handbag, what makes anyone think they can spot a Boy Scout knife that's being hidden in someone's ass?
But the airlines are still in big trouble. Today, American Airlines, the biggest airline in the world, had to beg it's employees' unions to let them slash wages so they wouldn't fall into bankruptcy. And you can tell just how desperate they are in this story when the CEO says they hope to make up the money in "food sales." There's no way they're going to make all that money on airline food. I've seen people eat the leather on the seats than eat an airline meal. Hell, I wouldn't pay to eat one if it was being served off of Sarah Jessica Parker.
House, Senate Approve War Appropriations
The number's are finally in folks, and the war is going to cost you and me over $80 billion smackers, which is about 7 billion more than President Bush's predictions. Now I don't know you handle your debts but I already have trouble coming up with the dough to split a bar tab on a Saturday night let alone having to come up with $40 billion to pay for a war? Does Congress think I wash my armpits with hundred-dollar bills each morning?
Two bills were approved by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and each included dough for the war effort, anti-terrorism and homeland security measures and appropriations for airlines. Now I know that a lot of businesses have been affected dramatically by the war, but no one has been hurt more than the airlines. After 9/11 and now a full blown war, airlines have had to meet federal mandates by not only hiring more airport security personnel, but this time, THEY HAVE TO ACTUALLY TRAIN THEM. They're only wasting the money. I mean before if the people who run and manage security at airports don't have the knowledge to spot a gun in a handbag, what makes anyone think they can spot a Boy Scout knife that's being hidden in someone's ass?
But the airlines are still in big trouble. Today, American Airlines, the biggest airline in the world, had to beg it's employees' unions to let them slash wages so they wouldn't fall into bankruptcy. And you can tell just how desperate they are in this story when the CEO says they hope to make up the money in "food sales." There's no way they're going to make all that money on airline food. I've seen people eat the leather on the seats than eat an airline meal. Hell, I wouldn't pay to eat one if it was being served off of Sarah Jessica Parker.
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