Fat Cats and the rest of us
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., said issued a
statement Saturday noting that before the attack the airlines were claiming
insolvency but giving their executives $120 million in salaries and bonuses.
Incredibly during the confusion of the World Trade Center attack some of
the airline industry stooges in congress, led by Transportation Committee
Chairman, Don Young, tried to grab BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars! Rep. Lloyd
Doggett, a Texas Democrat, complained "Now before all the bodies are
removed, all the dust is settled, all the fires extinguished, there are
those lining up here at the Capitol door, at the public treasury, asking to
receive some public subsidy"
Surprising?