It's A Travisty And A Tragedy.

A truly important issue has boiled up to the surface. As if Congress didn't have enough on it's plate, this happens along. I hope and pray for all of our souls, that we can come to bi-partisan support for a solution to this most pressing difficulty that threatens to disrupt our whole way of life. Nothing of this magnitude has come along since congress was forced to enact a law that required a limit of no more than three riders per horse, back toward the end of the nineteenth century. Okay, Okay, that never happened, but it should have, because then there would have been a more monumental crisis than this new one. Here's the thing. Most airlines are charging for checked baggage. That's right, can you imagine? Charging for checked baggage on top of the price of a ticket. Why the mere thought of such an outrage sends tremors up my spine. No wonder Congress has weighted in on this egregious issue. Many, if not all passengers have taken to claiming their baggage as carry-on. A simple solution, or at least it should be, except for two things. It's difficult to consider crates and luggage chests as carry-on. It takes several people to carry them on and how in the world do you get them up and into the overhead storage compartments? Secondly there are certain restrictions as to size that all airlines ascribe to. The problem is, just like all laws, these are not followed to the letter of the rule. Not even the spirit of the rule. Therefore the United States Congress has entered the fray with the full force and integrity of our national governing bodies. There is nothing so important or pressing as this potentially catastrophic inconvenience. Neither war nor Recession nor backbreaking debt nor global warming nor floods nor earthquakes nor pestilence of any kind can keep our Representatives and Senators from resolving this over-arching and looming disaster. Check-in baggage fees must be curtailed.