So you choose to ignore the fact that Mr. Obama, without so much as a phone call to ALPA, went ahead and approved the merger which completely eliminated an opportunity for a quid pro quo to drop the TRO which currently ties the hands of sUAL ALPA, and pay scale improvement but instead point to the Age 65 Rule change as an example of Republican anti-labor positions. Brother, our economy is in shambles, mostly as a result of the Community Reinvestment Act and to a lesser extent by the Bush Administration. Now we have a Democrat in office and we have a 16 Trillion debt and a President who has made some unsound bets in green technology (Solyndra, Fisker, A123 writ large). We have the Dodd-Frank bill that attempted to fix the mortgage market but left the door open to ambulance chasing lawers because of the "open to intreptation" what a "bad loan is" and as a result the banks are slow to loan on homes. You want to blame Bush, go right ahead, but you still have to wake up in the morning and live in this economy