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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (167873)	4/15/2003 5:37:41 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576626

Yes I do or at least a lot of it. (I wouldn't consider extra money for the security measures to be pork). Besides, any additional aid to airlines is a mere drop in the bucket when compared to the "subsidies" they get in the form of airports, runways, FAA, flight controllers & facilities, etc. The point being that we, as a nation, deem air travel to be important enough to have the government spend billions on these items anyway -- adding a few billion more here and there clearly isn't going to be the straw that broke the camel's back...