Originally Posted by
tinman1
No offense but I think you have been drinking too much of Barack's koolaid. Let's get off the Obama train for a moment and think about the harm this would cause to the industry...
Government operates at the very height of inefficiency and wasteful spending. Also take into account government hiring practices. They are less concerned with hiring skilled, highly qualified workers and more concerned with diversity and hiring based on ethnicity and demographics. "Uhhh yeah, you have an excellent resume but unfortunately we're only looking to hire Native American pilots to meet our quota to make the tax payers happy..." Is this the kind of red tape you want to put up with for the rest of your career?
Also the government doesn't need to go bailing pilots out of their loans. I mean, yes it would be nice but we all need to realize that we are accountable for what we borrowed, and hopefully we were all conscious when we signed the dotted line for x amount of $$$ to go to flight school. We have to be responsible for we committed ourselves to.
Government intervention would take an already crippled industry and obliterate it into a wasteland of PC and endless paperwork (as if there isn't enough of that already).
So you are saying that diversity isn't a good thing? Your comments reek of racism and bigotry.
As for the debt forgiveness, most regional pilots who are saddled with huge student loans had no choice but to sign for the loan. It was their only way of reaching their dream of becoming an airline pilot. Are you willing to crush so many pilot's dreams? They are currently living with the burden of making a student loan payment that takes up the majority of their pay. They need help and it's insensitive to ignore their plight as they are constantly living in fear of defaulting on their loans and having that negative stigma haunt them when they try for a position with the major airlines.