Originally Posted by
Earthboundmsfit
Geeze people I know it’s APC but the amount of defeatism is staggering.
Also…..why was NOTHING done in 2009-2010 when the dems had a supermajority in the senate and the presidency? What a wasted window.
As a notable Dem famously summarized: It's the Economy, Stupid.
Nobody who hopes to be elected again can torpedo the economy.
Also... many of today's Dems are fairly lukewarm on the more successful unions, by their success their members are comfortable middle or upper-middle class. That makes them more enemy than friend.
Not defeatism, but reality: we will not be allowed to willy-nilly shut down a major economic enabler or even a significant part of it on a whim. Not even in a localized geographic area... that's a problem with the airline industry, it's not like FDX, Arby's, or Riteaid where their competition is homogeneous across the land. Any of the top six airlines would have a devastating effect on their concentration areas if shut down. The SWA meltdown was actually mitigated by the fact that they don't really dominate any major metro areas.
Originally Posted by
SteamedHams
Additionally I’m still not buying that a bill to amend it wouldn’t be successful. I mean look at our neighbors to the north and how Westjet got a deal because they were about to strike less than a year after their contract was amendable.
Now THATs what you call results.
We aren’t talking France here where they strike every hour on the hour, we are talking Canada who’s cultural is most similar to the US compared to any other nation.
They get paid roughly half of what we do? But they make up for it because their taxes are double?