Monday, April 12, 2010

Why does Schumer hate cute baby airplanes?

The trampling injuries have barely healed from Chuckie Schumer's last stampede to a TV camera in light of some perceived outrage on the part of the airline industry. He's as responsible as anyone alive for the airlines' current dire financial situation. So you'd think he'd just shut up when an airline does something, however stupid, to try to stay aloft.

But "Schumer" and "shut up" are not words normally found in the same sentence. He's at it again.

It's become as predictable as 1,2,3:
  1. Spirit Airlines announces idiotic plan to charge travelers for carry-on bags.
  2. Newsie covers the story.
  3. Ayatollah Schumer rushes to camera, declares jihad.
New York Sen. Charles Schumer calls the fee a “slap in the face,” and said he'll get the government to ban airlines from charging fees for carry-on luggage.
I know it's asked so often that the question has become a cliché. But for God's! Sake!

Where the rollicking hell does this asshat get the authority to even express an opinion, much less issue a ban, on what a private business charges for anything? How can any sane man even have the effrontery to say such a thing? And why in the name of cute fuzzy puppies does anybody pretend to take him seriously?

H/T to Tam, who owes me my appetite back for showing me this before breakfast.

2 comments:

Kevin Wilmeth said...

I think it was from L. Neil Smith that I first heard it, and at any rate it's a paraphrase, but:

Only government would steal your money to buy a two-pound sledge, break both your legs with it, and then fine you for not being able to run fast enough.

Ol' Chucky is just a product of his profession, plain and simple.

Tam said...

Note Well:

The airline's plan was to drop ticket prices by $40, and charge an extra $45 for carry-ons that wouldn't fit under your seat.

So the overnighter could actually have saved money by stuffing his duffle into a gym bag that would stow beneath his chair...

Instead folks want Nanny Congress to kiss their boo-boo.


WV: "guess". I crap you negative, that's what it was...