Originally Posted by
No Land 3
Good, you can pay my share
Sure why not!!!
A lot of the Alaska EAS flying I did was incredible.
To address a very specific segment of the EAS traffic:
I do think that mostly native communities, without any road service, should be provided some form of EAS. The people residing in those communities have lived in those areas for thousands of years.
Thet did not "choose" too live somewhere based on market forces or any metric your average "American" can understand. They are from a group that became engulfed by our culture and our way of life. The Natives have lived in the same area for 10,000 years. That's 7500 years before classical Greece. Meanwhile we have obliterated their way of life.
I imagine if the US had gotten to Alaska a few hundred years earlier the policy of eradication and genocide that was carried out here in the lower 48 would have made EAS a moot point. But since we did leave some Native people alive in AK I think we should give the few that remain a ride.
I think between the poverty, alcohol, fetal alcohol syndrome, suicides, sugary diabetes diets and gutted education the problem will take care of itself in another hundred years. The best suited to assimilate will do fine and thrive and the ones that can't will die!!
Flying a few 207's back and forth won't put a dent in the 20 trillion in debt and the other countless trillions in unfunded liabilities the USA is on the hook for.