Originally Posted by
DaveNelson
I'd say that's only fair, because pilots as a group generally support banks, fertilizer companies, and aircraft manufacturing companies (NOT their employees) when it comes time to cast a ballot or register a political opinion.
I noticed that the centerfold of the most recent ALPA magazine, an ALPA-PAC solicitation, proudly informs us that the ALPA-PAC contributed the third-highest amount of money, after NATCA and the International Union of Operating Engineers, to
Republican candidates--and that ALPA-PAC contributed
zero dollars to any of Barack Obama's campaigns.
So, if corporates are going to be freed from regulation, why not airline pilots? We're loyal, patriotic citizens of the great American corporatrocracy. Good point, APC225! (While we're at it, could I get my pilot pay taxed at the capital gains rate?)
Yup! What could possibly go wrong? B787 battery fires, explosions in fertilizer plants built next to the children and elderly, and economic meltdown. If an airline's planes crash because pilots weren't being fully forthright in their self regulation, then passengers will simply buy away from that airline to a safer one. Could get rid of three federal agencies: FAA, NTSB, and uh uh, one other but I forget. A fed giving a checkride is actually
unpatriotic! It is not allowing the marketplace to work and thereby
socialistic. Please write your congressman to stop these
unAmerican over-regulated
unAmerican evaluations.
Let the marketplace work! People dieing in foreign ghetto garment factories so we can have cheap underwear, no universal health insurance so the poor have to go to the ER for
the most expensive medical possible which we pay for with ever higher premiums. Invisible hand, every one act in their own self interest, Howard Roark statues everywhere, one for all all for one, (for "the producers") rah rah rah, go team.