<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by pdjcrawford:
While I'm certainly no fan of unions of any kind (though not as militant about it as some here 
), I feel for anyone who is thrown out of work through no direct fault of their own.
Having said that, and not wanting to sound callus, I don't want to see government money (read: my money) going to "prop up" or "soften the blow" any more than the mechanisms in place for anyone else in any other company or industry that goes under. I know that there are precedents to the contrary here, which may be why the pilots are holding out waiting. I just don't want to see it happen again.</font>
But money is money. The way I look at it is the feds can invest a little now to help AC through this storm or pay potentially much more later in E.I. claims, lost taxes, etc not to mention the net economic damage as the ripple effect spreads outward.