"Whats the difference between 600 hrs. and 1000hrs.? Nothing.."

400 hours, when you only have 600 hours, is almost twice as much experience as a pilot. I hardly call that nothing.

"I am sick of some of these guys thinking they are KING OF PILOTS"

I guess I resemble that remark, though I don't think of myself as "KING OF PILOTS", as you state. I'm just someone who worked his way up through this career and, as such, know what a liability low time F/O's are. I'd rather see us raising the bar with the profession rather than lowering it. It's that simple.

"Flying is not rocket science. Actually its quite easy"

Well...glad you think so. If it was so easy, I don't think they would pay me 200K a year to make critical decisions effecting the safety and efficient operation of the airline. And the F/O can be a huge player in that.

Having the attitude that "this job is easy" isn't going to lead to a better contract at the bottom feeder of regionals. I hope most guys at Mesa don't have this kind of attitude.

"The whole debate about 250-500 hr wonder kids in the cockpit is not a question about whether they can pass training, or even perform their routine job satisfactorily. I'm sure they can. The question is what will happen if an emergency arises, and the captain is extremely overwhelmed"

I would partly disagree. Emergencies are all you do in the sim so I would expect someone fresh out of training to do okay. It's the real life stuff, like working the radios into LAX without screwing up, that's I'd worry about. You can't train "experience". You can only get it by spending time in the air and learning from your mistakes. That's why the 400 hours, at the beginning of this post, are important.