Bill;
Contrary to what you may think. I waited a month and tired to find a way to vote "yes" for this deal. I tired to look at it as you do. I do see some really good, and some decent items in it. It is not a total bust, but I cannot convince myself to vote for this TA. It does not address the wider issues on a longer term scale wrt to RJ's.

As I have said, if it had a road map in it for DCI, I would probably swallow really hard and vote yes, but it does not.

I can live with what I see as short comings with the JV language, and could quite possibly do the same with the RJET coutout, but the item count kept going.

We all have read and been told about future consolidation. I am looking at the effects of this TA down the road, the cost to fix the issues in the next two rounds, and decided its better to do it right now and not two, three, five years down the road, when the consolidation is done and there is no true motivators out there.

I am OK if I am on the wrong side of this vote. Its just one vote. I will be working within the system to find ways to fix its shortcomings though. Its not life or death to me, or my family.