Senator's Plan Could Spike Airline Costs, Slash Airport Jobs
A proposal to allow the government to set airport workers’ wages—including those of private companies—could lead to higher prices and job losses.
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A proposal to allow the government to set airport workers’ wages—including those of private companies—could lead to higher prices and job losses.
Certain programs end at a certain time, sooner than thought, it's not as if they're not going to be renewed or go away. so that is your concern. that is the concern of the business community, that it goes on and on and on. right? >> i have never seen a benefit given out that is taken back. go all the way back to health care and how that was used to offset when you have wage controls in place. they offering healthcare. it's never been taken back. a lot of these benefits, not commenting whether they're right or wrong, when you put them on the table, you and i have been around long enough to know...
Daily. this guy says let's abolish the free-market system with wage controls. it's illegal, unconstitutional, un-american, immoral. other idiots read the times and they say wow, abolished billionaires. that starts fair. this is the paper of record. this is what i call an idiot brushfire. everybody starts talking about abolishing billionaires and it spreads and then we have to come in and put the brushfire out. we get burned putting out the fire. you want to know why? we are sitting around defending billionaires and then we look like idiots who are out of touch sucking up to the billionaires. >...
Health care is because of government. it goes back to world war ii price and wage controls, that created this messed up system and of course obamacare makes it worse by taking individual choice out of the matter completely. there is no such thing as a right to birth control, there is no such thing as a right to health care f. employees of hobby lobby don't like the compensation offered, they should find another job. but religious freedom is freedom and that's what is the under attack with obamacare and the rest of what this administration is doing. >> they could drop it, they can give up healt...
states. >> hello, alip looking at seven battleground states and how the rate compares today with when he took office. nevada and florida, unemployment rate is higher than the national average. nevada and colorado the rate is above what it was when president obama stepped into the white house. rest of the battleground states it's interesting. the jobs marks are improving. they had been improving since when the president -- president went into office, still improving, iowa, new hampshire, low unemployment levels. 5% in iowa. new hampshire, 5%. virginia, 5.6%. in ohio, with 18 electoral...