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I talk about something pretty deep and serious later this hour and that is this unbelievably

large IOU we have as Americans with the massive federal budget deficit and the projections

going forward are really nasty.

The politicians aren't talking about it because they know you don't want to hear it.

I'm sorry.

I'm not running for office.

I tell you the things you need to think about with this and how it affects your future

if you have kids their future.

That's coming up later.

I want to give you a tip that you got to be fully aware of and it is a bait and switch

from American and United and then to a lesser extent from Delta.

The three full fair airlines are having a difficult time dealing with the mid price

carriers that offer vastly superior service to them.

Airlines like JetBlue, Alaska, Southwest and then they are being twisted into a pretzel

by the really, really cheap fairs offered by the hard discounters that don't have a great

air product and that's a spirit frontier and a legion.

If I'm a full fair airline with my massive cost structure, I'm having a tough time figuring

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