David Shemano:
> 1. Why, with the exception of United Airlines, did every major interstate
>airline testify against deregulation? And how come the legislation passed
>notwithstanding their opposition?
Because they didn't recognize their own long-term class interests as well
as bourgeois intellectuals such as Alfred Kahn did. This is the role of the
intelligentsia, to raise such ideas. It is the role of the bourgeois state
apparatus to then act upon it. FDR functioned in the same manner in the
1930s when he pushed for regulation. The last of the "New Dealers", Ted
Kennedy, was responding to the same class interests when he fought for
deregulation.
> 2. With respect to your criticisms of the present industry, nowhere do you
>point out that while the demand for air service has dramatically increased
>since deregulation, the supply or airports has not been increased to meet
>the demand (and airports are publicly controlled and owned entities in the
>United States).
Even if this were feasible, it is not what we need. We need an expansion of
high-speed rail. We also need to cut down on business travel. These fucking
idiots sitting all around me on the airplanes every trip I take tapping
away at their laptops are just an annoyance anyhow. Teleconferencing and
high-speed trains, that's the ticket.
> 2. The following were the members of the "Ad Hoc Committee for Airline
>Regulation Reform":
>
> a. American Conservative Union
> b. American Consumer Action Project
> c. American Retail Federation
> d. Americans for Democratic Action
> e. Common Cause
> f. Cooperative League of the U.S.A.
> g. DHL Corporation
> h. Ford Marketing Institute
> i. Libertarian Alliance
> j. National Association of Counties
> k. National Association of State Aviation Officials
> l. National Consumer Congress
> m. National Retail Merchants Association
> n. National Retired Teachers
> o. National Student Lobby
> p. National Taxpayer's Union
> q. Public Interest Economics Center
> r. Ralph Nader's Congress Watch
> s. Sears & Roebuck Co.
> t. Western Traffic Conference
No Marxist organizations, I see.
Louis Proyect
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