Bailing out the airlines

Is it just me or should the ailines that are about to receive several BILLION dollars of taxpayer “bail-out” money not be allowed to fire 100,000 taxpayers? If they fire that many people, what the hell do the need all that money for?
Maybe the gummint should just BUY the damn airlines… The service surly can’t get worse and with no profit margin to maintain, tickets would (well, should anyway) come down a little. Sounds pretty naive, I know, but WTF?

And the ironic part is, we’re going to get all that money back once the lawyers and insurance companies start going after them. We’re being paid off with our own money.