End the bailouts and Protect Capitalism Politicians are apoplectic that American International Group (AIG) executives received $165 million in bonuses. AIG's Financial Products unit engaged in credit-default swaps that put the insurance giant on the verge of insolvency before the feds bailed them out. Politicians are steamrolling forward with an initiative to tax their bonuses. Conservatives are outraged by the bonuses, but know that bonuses aren't the problem the bailouts are.
armed pilots, yes, i was one of those, and i know the training that we went through before we were carrying weapons on the aircraft in the post-9/11 world, so and i concur with him. it is not uncommon at all to have law enforcement officers on flights and so that there s multiple levels of protection from a security standpoint. okay. let me reiterate for anyone just joining us what we are covering here. the good news is we don t have any injuries or passenger safety concerns at this point at atlanta hartsfield international airport. however, we know at 1:30 p.m. today, a weapon accidentally discharged. it happened at one of atlanta s security screening areas. there is no active shooter right now at the airport. atlanta police department is on the scene. we are getting word about many passengers who have gone out on to the tarmac. we re getting some video in here
doors, armed pilots, crew self-defense training as well as air marshals. rene, thank you. let s talk about this video. why did you decide to do this? because nobody is moving quick enough. it s 13 years later. and we seem now to have airlines we had one airline, united airlines had installed these secondary barriers on a lot of their aircraft. now the merger happened between united and continental, the new ceo has decided to remove the secondary barriers from the oncoming aircraft and it sets a dangerous precedent. we have our airline companies that are minimally complying with what is recommended by the tsa for procedures and by removing the secondary barrier the only thing that is prove on the protect the cockpit during those times when the door is open, if that is being removed from the aircraft, we have no form of protection during that
you are all for security. let me read this, this is part of your cnn.com opinion piece that jumped out at me in this post-9/11 era. you said i was never a fan of armed pilots. another flight attendant might have felt insured, but when i walked into a cockpit to find a pilot with a gun on his lap, i was rattled. i had met the guy before, had no reason to distrust him, but even the thought of an incident was enough to question my safety. is it about people or is it about guns? it s a little bit of both, when you re adding you can screen people, but you don t know what s going to happen later in their lives or in the work place, as we have seen a lot of things do come from workers attacking their own coworkers in the work space. also, accidents. when it comes to arming pilots, there s a whole different, level. many people are for that. we have seen a few small accidents, which i think is the
passengers would come back. and i think that s a huge security problem now, and that is that the public is not on the same payabge as the tsa. and that needs to be brought together. what s the difference between now and 10 years ago? why is it ok to bring a knife on a plane now that it wasn t 10 years ago? locked cockpit doors. air marshals. passengers who will rip your head off if you try to do something. there are thousands, many thousands of armed pilots. there are thousands of armed federal officers. the pipilots themselves are in the cockpit? yeah. on their own initiative? they apply to the tsa under the air marshal s program. and they have the world s smallest law enforcement jurisdiction. their cockpit. these are commercial airline pilots packing heat up in the cockpit? yes, yes. and you have fbi agents, other