The president is getting an $80 billion package from congress to pay for the war. We knew that, but there is an added provision tacked on by congress that helps the airline industry. The provision allocates additional unemployment funds for laid-off airline employees and sets salary caps on airline executives to their 2002 levels. Granted, those salaries are still way high, but at least there is bipartisan support for short-term relief and allowing the market to push for the airline industry to return to profitablility instead of just bailing them out.

The war chest will not be handed over to the White House to spend willy-nilly, either. For the majority of the funding, Bush has to tell congress first before he spends it. Ain't checks and balances a bitch? (Giggle.)

While we're on the subject of the war budgets and corporations, here's a harrowing statistic. While Bush is getting $78.5 billion to pay for his lovely war, overseas corporate tax shelters are bilking the economy out of $70 billion in tax money every year. Another Arianna Huffingon pet cause (she's behind a lot of the SUVs Support Terrorism stuff), it couldn't have come at a better time. We need to point out this sort of hypocrisy before the post-war guzzling of oil and cum really kicks in.

However, will the networks report on it? Of course not. They're owned by corporations who are doing the same thing. (27% of Viacom's 960 subsidiaries are in overseas tax havens.)

We have to keep fighting, though, for what we believe in before the Department of Homeland Security, DARPA, and the Attorney General start to really Big Brother us.