Originally Posted by
Funky Twins
Call me a socialist or even a commie, but maybe the government should chip in to solve this problem. The bottom line is that none of the regional first officers can afford reasonable and legal (which meets all the fire codes and building codes as ABC NEWS pointed out) accomodations in many of these places while supporting a spouse and a couple of kids, so we are being forced in to situations like these. This problem is real, it is here, and the government should do something about it now.
Yes, complete social answer. "Make the gubbmint pay for it!"
How about this... you pay people what they need to be safe, and what they're worth. If you can't do that, and provide a product that can make money, then you fail. You have to let the system work, government as gotten completely out of control and the LAST thing I want to see my tax dollars doing is subsidising yet another broken system. It's why we're in this mess. Capitalism works, let it.
That said, as long as there are chumps willing to work for those wages, the problem won't go away. Make all the excuses in the world about how and why, not a single pilot at any regional ever had a gun to their head and was forced into servitude. If you willingly take that job for that pay, you have no leg to stand on. If you have a wife and kid, and opt to take a $20K/year job, THAT WAS YOUR CHOICE. The lack of personal respobsibility and entitlement makes my eyes bleed.
Amen sir. I believe that down to my bones. Capitilism does work! It may suk initially, but it will take it's course eventually. Chrysler survived the great depression but not this recent recession. Why because there was less economic movement or less sales? Hell no! It's cause there are too many unions and awful management. I think pilot unions are silly as well. If you run the company right, people will work for you. If you don't, people will leave. Free market econemy!