Armed Pilots Program News Today

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.

Hasnt been an incident but it looks like every time an american aircraft that gets hijacked there hasnt been any air marshals or both planes that have in iads on board most of them didnt have armed marshals on them and i dont think there were any armed pilots on them either. so, the air marshall program alone is a billion-dollar program. and the armed pilots program is a lot of the pilots believe its a real difficult. there is too much to qualify for. they have to go on their own time. so, just ...