An Open Letter to Delta Air Lines

August 20, 2011

Melissa Lee
Bellaire, MI 49615

Mr. Richard H. Anderson, CEO
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
P.O. Box 20706 Atlanta, Georgia 30320-6001

Dear Mr. Anderson:

Your company needs to get it together; and I don’t mean straighten your shirt, brush off the dirt kind of “get it together.” I’m talking about the going to rehab, kicking the habit, changing your life around kind of “get it together.”

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

I really don’t understand the excitement over voting to raise the debt ceiling before America defaults. This isn’t great, it’s tragic.

I can guarantee you that for the next week our news stations are going to be devoted to airing clips of lawmakers high-fiving and praising each other for reaching this bipartisan agreement - but these celebrations should be treated like a slap in the face to American citizens. This vote isn’t a solution, it’s just prolonging the inevitable and giving government more room to spend money it doesn’t have. We will find ourselves back here once again with even more debt.