Eleven days after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Congress rushed through a $15 billion bailout of the airline industry.

It's August, and vacation beckons.

Remember back a few weeks to the holiday season, when you and millions of other Americans shared the joy of digging deep to pay for airline tickets to visit family?

• Amount of miles 90-year-old great-grandmother Doris `Granny D' Haddock walked per day during her trek across the country to raise attention
  
  

STUFFING THEMSELVES AT OUR EXPENSE