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  • Mayor Daley urging President Obama to bail out airlines

    04/21/2009 4:26:35 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 13 replies · 575+ views
    Chicago Sun Times ^ | 4-21-09 | Fran Spielman
    Mayor Daley is urging President Obama to bail out an airline industry that has “weathered one extraordinary challenge after another” since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In an April 10 letter to the president, Daley referred to the “precarious state of our nation’s airports and airlines” and argued that the airline industry is every bit as deserving of a federal bailout as the banking, insurance and auto industries. “In contrast to the hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars directed to the banking and insurance industries during the past few months and the tens of billions funneled into two...