It's never us that are greedy! It's always the other guy, right?
I also love the altruism, self-righteousness shown by most pilots not nearing retirement.
Ol'
Andy would have run circles around most of you back in the day with respect to why Age 65 should have never seen the light of day, and he would let the supporters of raising the retirement age have it double-barrel. Want a nice, well-articulated argument that today would have elicited more likes than most of us can count to? Andy was our guy.
After all, he's had the same arguments as most of the anti crowd:
- you knew the rules when you got into this business and you benefitted from age 60 your whole career.
- 5 year stagnation plus extending the furloughs for thousands of pilots.
- we owe it to future generations to preserve status quo.
- your pi$$poor financial planning early on in life doesn't entitle you to take away from me and my family.
- lost your A-plan? Well sucks to be you, but my family/career shouldn't suffer because you lost your A-plan.
Here we are almost two decades later... It's amazing how ol' Andy changed his tune and became a huge age 67 supporter. Wonder why Andy's perspective changed..... or did it? Could it be that Andy was always about Andy?
See, Andy taught me a lot and opened my eyes. You can start with all your emotional pleas about retaining age 65 vs. going to 67, and in my mind, you're just as full of doo-doo as Andy was back in the day. You can list every reason you can think of with the assistance of ChatGPT or Grok to keep Age 65 and list studies that prove your point... to me, you're just as full of doo-doo as Andy was back in the day. And not just Andy.... so many anti's back in the day even older guys, and overwhelming majority stayed until 65. Chances are, you will too to 67, unless something or someone convinces you to leave early, but believe me... ideology of status quo won't be it. So the chest-thumping for the sake of righteousness won't be it....
Pilots are loudmouth *****s. Always were, always will be and will ALWAYS engage in mental gymnastics to advance their agenda regardless of what it is. Once you accept that... you can begin to laugh and not give a damn.