Originally Posted by terks43

What do you notice about the co-sponsors? Not a single Democrat. Like I said, already dead on arrival. Will never get through the Senate. Probably will never even see the floor of the Senate either. Don't get your hopes up for those who had poor financial planning. Essentially you are going to need 60 GOP seats in the senate which is never going to happen, just as 60 Democratic seats is never going to happen again in the senate.

Not only that but it would be easy to convince Republicans' to abandon this bill by pointing out that signing it would result in the furlough of thousands of young pilots, destroying jobs, which is something they do not want on their record. Once again, dead on arrival. The politics of it is nothing but negative for those who back it. Because fact of the matter is the shortage is in the left seat at the regional level and extending the retirement age won't do much to fix that as the younger CA's are already gone.