To clarify my opinion. I feel that the labor groups which have been discussed already exist on false pretenses being that our government restricts trade with other countries that can supply the same products made by their unskilled labor groups for far lower prices. These far lower prices would benefit each and every American. If fare trade were allowed, which is blocked by lobbying by their unions, our unskilled labor groups would be freed from their artificially inflated incomes to receive higher skills and education. With these new skills and education these workers would be able to grow our economy in areas that the U.S. is in a prime position to lead the world economy and bring in money from other world economies. You see I don't believe any person is superior to another. I simply believe that these unions have been a detrement to their represented laborers and more importantly to every American citizen.

"Why can't ALPA be a non-union professional society, it would make way more money that way...." -sorry Mesabah couldn't get it to quote like normal.

I have been thinking about this quite a bit. It would seem to me that ALPA has done a lot more for the profession in terms of safety and standardization than anything else. If we took them out of pay negotiation and decided how much they were worth to us on an individual basis I think we might get a lot more value out of them i.e. AOPA. Just a thought.