Originally Posted by
ewrbasedpilot
I'm certainly betting that you certainly don't think YOU make too much money, do you? After all, you sit up in the cockpit, read a magazine (or flight manual) for a few hours, look at the gauges every now and then, and make around $175 or more an HOUR. The laborers at the auto manufacturing jobs actually WORK all day and bust their rear ends. I'm sure they'd LOVE to have a job like you making the money you do and having the days off you do. That's the problem here..... too many think the little guys make too much, and the top level too little. Sorry to rain on your parade, but heavy pilots aren't the only ones who deserve a LIVable wage.
I made less than the average assembly line worker for 60% of my career. In the meantime I paid for two four year degrees and all my ratings completely on my own (well over 60K) without any government help and am responsible/accountable for more than my work station on the assembly line. If they want to do the same, they're free to do so. By that same yardstick, you may well be the overpaid one.
Besides, what I'm talking about is the incoming gang's (especially the new W.H. Chief of staff) plans to "fix" everything. Some people just have to turn everything into class warfare.