Originally Posted by
nwaf16dude
I didn't say anything about my budget, or my level of financial need. I'm doing fine, thank you. My retirement check and other govt bennies put my income above most of the captains I fly with.
You stated that your money buys the same thing it did ten years ago, and I gave one example of why I think you are wrong. Nothing personal.
Nothing personal taken. I just don't buy the "inflation" crap. Everyone talks inflation but no one ever expands or explains it. I mean I kind of get it but it's all about living within ones means. My friends who gripe most about gas drive gas guzzlers and go through 5 tanks a month. I'm sorry if I don't have much sympathy for them. Everyone mentions "gas" prices but other than that I don't hear much on the topic of inflation. At current book Delta pilots earn way more than 90% of Americans. What we are dealing with is an entitlement issue, not an "inflation" issue.