Check the date. This was released almost 2 years ago.

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Ltes meet and confer on this and see if you and I agree.

Dow up over 12,000 on Greek bailout plan. GDP up 2.5%. Glad I didn't go to all cash over a month ago like some on here were doing.
The market always wins.

Not true. DCI is the "100 seat" airplane management alleges they've been looking for during the last decade and have been unable to find. As long as we've outsourced jets with MD88 economics we have set a floor of about 142 to 160 seats on what management will fly at mainline.All very true. Not only will the various pilot groups undercut each other from within ALPA (even Comair underbid ASA to steal their flying) but the Teamsters and non union carriers will actively undermine the others.

When the President of ALPA unveiled his alliance plan it was obviously unworkable and destined for instant failure. The same guy touts the advantages in outsourcing for mainline pilots ... .That is the correct conclusion.

Unity is structural. One airline, one bargaining agent, one contract. When any pilot has a problem ALL pilots have a problem.

PM sent.

There are some real problems with UHC that threaten the financial security of our pilots. Since we co-insure ourselves you are exposed to WHATEVER rates UHC negotiates with providers. In most cases those rates are lower than standard self pay rates and closer to Medicaid reimbursement (WellStar for instance is allegedly a "non profit" provider). Most of the time we happily see a 70% discount and go about our ways.

But what if UHC decides to enter into a contract which pays much MORE than you would owe otherwise? You will find that under law you owe it. In our case the procedure was billed at just under six times the Medicare rate, which was more than four times UHC's own "usual and customary" rate for non network providers.

UHC is exempt from the laws which regulate insurers, as well as anti trust and consumer protection regulations. A fight with these guys could easily leave a Delta employee bankrupt and given the depth of their abuses there probably are some examples out there to be found.

I agree, it's just a sad commentary that Chuck Norris was the first thing that popped in my head.

I'm really glad I got to read that post before you removed it. Excellent job of how to handle this. Very well done. I wish you wouldn't have removed it.

Carl

Thanks Carl, but it was a little too personal and it still really upsets me.

One funny aspect of it was that TWO MONTHS later, while non reving back from a hike in Banff the Royal Canadian Mounted Police detected "bomb making materials" on our infant and considered taking her into custody until we explained the whole story. Those sniffers at the airport work amazingly well.

Dude that made me mad.

Nice work with threatening service of process in a personal setting. Funny how people get motivated to do the right thing when they might have to be held personally accountable for how they put food on the table, rather than hiding behind a lawyer.

It was some rapper, I think JayZ, who in an interview said he preferred the illegal drug business to the music industry. He said on the street, a handshake and your word meant something... and if you broke your word there were consequences. Not so in the music industry, he said people lie to your face and hide behind lawyers. It seems that's pretty much how business in America works.

I have a lawyer in the family, he calls this behavior the "flinch test." Most people bend over and pay. Once you engage a lawyer, your letters go to a whole different level in the company and they do a quick cost benefit analysis of the case, and at least come to the table with an offer.

At any rate, It's too bad you had to go through all that.

Who wrote this again? Oct 2:

"If you haven't set up a brokeragelink do it first thing monday morning. Put all available investable assets there (sitting in a tax exempt moneymarket trust). The market is going to fall off a cliff within the next 2 weeks... sooner rather than later.

Wait for the market to hit bottom...by 3rd week in Oct. Buy a good 3X etf like tna or erx. Plan to sell in april sometime and shift your holdings to a 3X inverse etf like FAZ. Rinse repeat. Not much babysitting required.

FWIW, from the guy who bought erx monday (not friday) at 30.80 and sold tues for 38, a 25% gain in two days in full view of you folks.

Again, not investment advice, do your own due diligence, your mileage may vary, you are responsible for your own actions, etc."