Hard to feel sorry for anyone but the employees, the bosses all tell us, the planes are cleaned between every flight now before it’s your seat clean it. The US carriers all got money from the Rump Ranger supposedly for salaries, guess their essential if you fly for business? But what happens if their business doesn’t come back after the summer?
Why aren’t these cash disbursements for the airlines, oil companies, cruise-ship lines and other large corporations given as low-interest, long-term loans? Oops! How silly of me. Momentary lapse of synapses. Sorry!
Several comments here and there over the past 6 weeks or so pointing out that at least in the US, airlines and other giant corps have plowed almost all the money they saved on taxes into buying back their stock, thereby to increase the value of the stock still outstanding, which is often held by top corporate officers and the other very rich. And therefore putting themselves into a position where a few weeks’ loss of income will drive them under. The folks making this point were universal in their condemnation of the idea that the government should bail out huge companies who _could have _ been building up a nest egg with which to make it through difficult times.
VT8/VF84 almost 4 years ago
Hard to feel sorry for anyone but the employees, the bosses all tell us, the planes are cleaned between every flight now before it’s your seat clean it. The US carriers all got money from the Rump Ranger supposedly for salaries, guess their essential if you fly for business? But what happens if their business doesn’t come back after the summer?
moosemin almost 4 years ago
Why aren’t these cash disbursements for the airlines, oil companies, cruise-ship lines and other large corporations given as low-interest, long-term loans? Oops! How silly of me. Momentary lapse of synapses. Sorry!
Radish the wordsmith almost 4 years ago
Alms for the testing poor?
Concretionist almost 4 years ago
Several comments here and there over the past 6 weeks or so pointing out that at least in the US, airlines and other giant corps have plowed almost all the money they saved on taxes into buying back their stock, thereby to increase the value of the stock still outstanding, which is often held by top corporate officers and the other very rich. And therefore putting themselves into a position where a few weeks’ loss of income will drive them under. The folks making this point were universal in their condemnation of the idea that the government should bail out huge companies who _could have _ been building up a nest egg with which to make it through difficult times.