Originally Posted by
Brand X
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.
Don't even go there with the race argument. I am not a racist in the least and I want to work next to the best and most qualified individuals out there regardless of race of ethnicity.
We're not crushing dreams here, and as others have said it is not the government's problem right now. It sucks that it is outrageously expensive to go through training for a low paying job, but maybe the young up and coming flight school students need to be educated on the harsh realities of this life and steered away from the airlines. I know quite a few pilots who, had they been better educated on the matter, would have stopped after getting their private pilot cert so they could fly for fun and do something else for a living.