Originally Posted by
seamonster
You are right.
Houses cost more now.
Gas costs more now.
Groceries cost more now.
College costs more now.
Cars cost more now.
Need I continue?
To top the change theme you started. bNow we have to take care of our own retirement.
Everything has changed.
If you didn't change your spending habits after 9-11 and a BK, then you are way behind the power curve. This isn't 1994 anymore. Ask the AA pilots if they will now change theirs? You are right though, those things are more expensive now. Think how much more you could buy with a 20% raise in only 3 years, compared to delays if the company doesn't want to renegotiate and we ask the NMB for help.