Originally Posted by
globalexpress
It's A LOT different than the government giving the US airlines money.....because the US government didn't give the US airlines any money when they went through bankruptcy. And even if you want to stick to your "not much different" argument, it certainly isn't 40 Billion dollars worth like the Big ME have received.
Semantics. Whether a government gives cash to an enterprise, or allows it a system to eliminate tons of debt, the end result is the same. However, since you are so bent on seeing no evil where you don't want to see it, I doubt you will admit that.
And even if the U.S. airlines' total isn't "40 billion" as you say, you are now saying that the ME airlines' offense is worse, just because of the magnitude. Silly, because if subsidies are wrong, then they are wrong, period.