The Ghost of Spirit Airlines ｜ 05-03-26
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Summary
Spirit Air goes under, and the finger of blame is being pointed in all directions. But somebody that is getting a lot of heat is it? Yes, Liz Warren. She was an advocate for the government, the United States government, blocking a merger that would have taken place between Spirit and Jet Blue.
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And the finger of blame, oh, boy, is it being pointed in all directions.
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But somebody that's getting a lot of heat is Liz Warren.
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She was an advocate for the government, the United States government,
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blocking a merger that would have taken place between spirit and jet blue jet blue offered up
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3.8 billion with a b dollars in cold hard cash to buy spirit in 2022 shareholders flight attendants
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union literally everybody voted yes they wanted this to happen the insiders knew that uh uh spirit
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like other mergers between airlines, cuts down on the competition.
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A lot of different airlines and discount air gives the people that she so loves and adores, the people of America.
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And she said, nope, we got to move forward and block any merger.
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she wrote letters pressured a buddha judge biden's doj sued and a federal judge killed the deal
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in january of 2024 her argument of course the merger would have cost consumers one billion
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dollars a year she was saving the people one billion dollars a year my god what a wonderful
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person and uh now let's look at some of the collateral damage 510 pilots gone uh in the
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months after uh they uh they uh lost the deal 1800 flight attendants furloughed in december
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14 000 jobs in 2023 and 7 500 last week alone and that's just people in spirit uniforms
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catering goes fuel uh fuel guys baggage crews gate agents airport coffee shops hotels rental cars
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in 70 cities spirit flew to every airline job carries uh three or more jobs on its back
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40,000 people out at work because one woman had a moronic crusade against the market.
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Spirit abandoned 90 roots during the death spiral.
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And Senator Warren, Liz Warren, is the one that really pushed, her and Buttigieg, really pushed.
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and higher fares and then she talks about the department of transportation and the justice
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department they were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline
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consolidation this is a biden win for flyers another biden win this is what warren said
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right when they were trying to stop the merger.
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But those employees, while there probably would have been some layoffs and redundancies,
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there always is with a merger, it wouldn't have been this.
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They don't know all the peripheral jobs that come from that.
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Out there. Her battle to keep airlines competitive resulted in one less airline being out there.
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So now the airlines that are left can jack up prices on those routes, can take over those routes and do what they please.
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that's how it goes she's a a commie socialist whatever you want to call it that doesn't
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understand the free market they gotta get their mitts into everything these politicians
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mostly democrats they love commies they love you know uh uh getting getting their snouts
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into everything Americans should be able to do by themselves.
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The free market, your own companies, your businesses.
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They got to get in there and just shake it all up.
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So now there are a bunch of people out of work.
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This is him talking about blocking the merger back a couple of years back.
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Our department, the Department of Transportation, has generally not gotten involved in these merger cases, but that's changing today.
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It is so important to make sure that passengers have choices, that they have access to low fares, that they have access to competition.
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And yet we've seen less and less and less of that competition over the years.
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We are taking a step that, again, is unusual in terms of recent years, but we think is the right thing to do, supporting the DOJ's lawsuit and independently using our own authorities, which are a little bit different from the DOJ, starting our own investigation and taking other actions.
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wow that's that's what you want a competition you you eliminated jobs
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and uh she's taking credit or she took credit for it uh she says uh she she's never made out
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a payroll she's never run a business where she knows about the simplest economics like supply
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and demand and what have you she was selling it on saving you billions on
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imaginary paper that's what it is just this imaginary paper oh this is great
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we're saving you billions well where are the billions oh you'll see it no no
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they won't bunch of people out of work it's gonna cost ten times that much in
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in real life does she get this she don't she didn't protect consumers from anything
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14 000 jobs gonna go from working to perhaps welfare or unemployment and then she blames
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the billionaires the taxpayers capitalism rate ronald reagan trump uh higher taxes yeah fewer
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jobs that's uh that's what liz warren did that's what she did for you a lot of these
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numbers that i'm getting are from yogi house of yogi on x he posted um a bunch of stuff about
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what is happening with spirit and how senator liz warren is involved it's terrible and um
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