Skygirl, I sympathsize with your appraisal of dubya, but already I see this thread going off track. The point is, if you knew how many of the legislature fly around on our corporate jets with the associated 1v1 lobbying opportunities you wouldn't believe it. Combine that with all the pac money FDX gives to BOTH party's and it's hard to counteract. That's why I'm in the President's Club in ALPA's pac; not to brag, but I believe it's more important than my regular dues. I've told everyone that will listen that it's not the legislation that we get through on our behalf, it's the legislation they get stopped from attacking us. It's below the radar screen and few people ever know that some stupid word or sentence gets killed in the hall by a staffer.