Face it, boys... we were whupped. To the victor goes the spoils.
(I just wish we could hire some of the APAAD lobbyists over to ALPA. Or maybe the AOPA guys that fought the user fee proposal.)
Now it's time to just lay down the narrative that'll help us all get to sleep at night. "Spoiled little rich kids" helps a little. Thinking about the purple nuggets must help alot - they went straight to a widebody right seat. Yeah, it would help the old folks at the top if they could wrap us all up into a mental image of an early-thirties flat belly with a Corvette, a fighter job in the Guard and no kids in sight.
Whatever gets you through the night.....