Spoken just like a guy who believes new hires are expendable.

BTW: helps if you READ the thread. I posted earlier: "My entire family has been in aviation, both military and civilian for three generations. I am an airline pilot and work with a very broad spectrum of airline pilots through my military reserve job from long before Sept 11th. I've seen my friends lose their jobs and come back to the reserve snivelling for every man-day they can get just to pay the bills. Many of them are still furloughed. I have heard both sides of the story from the jumpseat and over a beer (I'll drink a beer with anyone...I might even buy)."

But feel free to:
a. Assume or generalize to try to typecast me as uninformed or unimportant -and-
b. Then accuse me of making this argument emotional