We still have about 700 spots left from the 824, hardly ½ way through!

"OOO--BAAA--MAAA, OOO--BAAA-MAAA", Hope and change, yea baby, redistribute that wealth!! COMMUNISM FOR EVERYONE!!!

-oh yea, but you can't own anything either...

Well, slaves can be happy too...

long legged mac daddy

Your short term memory is failing you.
Bill Clinton left with a balanced budget. George Bush doubled the national debt and military spending was up to almost $800 billion. 1/2 of the worlds total.
If you rack up $100,000 in credit card debt then pass it on to your kids, it grows to $125,000. Is it really your kids fault?

With Russia rattling their sabre that military spending doesn't look so bad.

1. Credit card debt dies with the debtor, but is chargeable to the estate.
2. National debt $9.99 trillion 2008, and projected $20 trillion 2016.
3. Public debt $5.8 trillion 2008 projected $14.7 trillion 2016.
Blame that on Bush if it makes you sleep better. IMHO they are both embarrassing fiscal managers.

if your state allows homestead then file the papers now and build your credit card debt after the homestead and the credit debt will not be applied to the estate.

Point missed.

Rand Paul 2016!!!!

I'll take my chances, I'd rather be pro free market in a strong economy a sound currency, then this bull crud now of lies and schemes. No one is pro people or labor anymore. Big business owns it all, with the fed as their right hand man, this is an awful system setup for,the greedy right now.

You realize society has been structured this way since the dawn of civilization...

Not even close to describing to whats coming down the pipe. We are in heavenly times in comparison to how bad it really gets.

The "824", do they have previous #'s at AA or are they given #'s once they get hired on property there? I ask as a US guy, where I stand in relation to those guys, if we can ever get the SLI worked out.

My understanding is that those in the 824 get new numbers when they start class at AA. Basically they are treated as new hires for seniority purposes.

I hope your tin foil hat fits snugly. Wouldn't want the govmnt reading them there thoughts.

Are you volunteering to be first in line to the fema camps? ;) Get a clue man. Saying that something isn't right in america should be pretty obvious by now. Do some research.

I think people lack an education on what's going on. Something has to give with the high debt and printing of money. The logical simple answer is pending hyper inflation. The more complex answer is when you include most of the us dollars are over seas being used as the worlds reserve currency and many counties now are or,trying to opt out. Put the two above together at once and the Great Depression will look good.

The ace in the hole for the bankster state is the military and the petro dollar. As long as oil is traded in dollars only, there is artificial demand for the currency. Anyone who decides to try and trade out of the currency like Saddam or Qaddafi meets an unfortunate end.

Iran and China have been prevented from building a pipeline due to the US presence in Afghanistan. The Chinese aren't dumping the dollar because they are being allowed to buy up gold at cheaper prices due to Goldman-Sachs suppressing paper gold prices through massive shorting. As long as there is a world demand for oil, the US dollar can survive on the backs of the rest of the world.

Since this thread is wandering, I'll throw this in the mix ;)

I recently learned about an internal report that was written toward the end of the Clinton administration which detailed the negative effects of actually paying off the national debt (which was projected to occur in 2012). It's called "Life After Debt" and the author was Jason Seligman.

LifeAfterDebt.pdf

The problem is basically that the entire world uses US Treasury Bonds (our debt) for so many functions that eliminating them all together would cause all sorts of problems. Seligman admits that the world financial market would adapt, but that the issues introduced by eliminating the US national debt completely are pretty significant.

Food for thought..

The Russians are opting out including oil, Iran has for a long time. The last two years has seen a wave of countries in the Asian and Middle East area trading off the dollar and it's growing.

Thanks

filler

Shrinking Envoy by 47% is not as easy as it sounds.

The labor cost structure depends on a certain amount of pilots making the lowest wages to offset the pilots that make the highest wages.

From Unions and Airlines

Consider two regional airlines where new pilots earn $20,000 per year and pilots who've been with the airline for 20 years earn $80,000 per year. Airline A and Airline B fly the same types of planes, have exactly the same cost structure, and have the same percentage of junior versus senior pilots. Suppose now that a fluctuation in demand causes Airline A to have slightly fewer customers and Airline B to have slightly more customers. Airline A will have to furlough a few pilots and Airline B will hire a few.

Airline A would naturally like to furlough its most senior pilots, the ones costing $80,000 per year, or perhaps cut all pilots' monthly hours slightly. Union agreements, however, force it to furlough the most junior pilots. Airline A is thus left with a pilot group that, on average, has more years with the airline than before and therefore has a higher average cost. Airline B, by contrast, just hired a bunch of new pilots and is paying them just $20,000 per year. This means that Airline B's average cost for a pilot is lower than before. Airline B can now move into Airline A's region and offer lower fares. Customers start choosing Airline B over Airline A and the furloughing and hiring intensify.

Union agreements add positive feedback to an already unstable industry. An airline that is successful and growing will enjoy lower costs because of the new pilots being hired for almost nothing. An airline that is shrinking will see its labor costs spike as nearly all flights are operated by highly paid senior crews.

a la Comair

Based on approx 2000 or 90%, it doesn't sound like a reduction in manpower would be an issue. It sounds more like the reduction at Eagle will almost take care of itself over the next 5+yrs through flow/attrition.

Despite what the company is saying, I don't believe they can or will furlough. Downgrades do not seem likely either, as we're losing 20 CA a month to AA alone, that's not counting anyone leaving for other jobs.

Well, you do have someone's talking points down.

Clinton did NOT have anywhere close to a balanced budget,,, until Newt and his 'Contract with America' took over. Look it up.

Clinton even said himself that the budget would not be balanced, but the short lived fiscal responsibility that ended the Clinton administration was not of Clinton's doing. He was too busy putting out fires he lit with his pants down. The Republicans, not of the RINO variety which seem to be the only kind that exist today, were in charge of both houses of Congress if memory serves.

But that certainly doesn't keep Bill from trying to take credit for it.

/\THIS/\

IF Russia and China do dump the dollar in trading oil, this could trigger a bad sequence of events. The end of the petrodollar would bring all those dollars home, where they would manifest in inflation and rising interest rates. That is when things get interesting...

Six months from now could be a whole different world.

The BitCoin intrigues me. If it can recover from the Mt Gox disaster, it could be seen as a refuge or lifeboat for wealth that will otherwise be ****ed away as inflation hits double digits.

They might dump it along with everybody else when it collapses and since its the world federal reserve there will be nowhere to run.

Well, then you have no other choice than to go head long into the PMs.

Building up my gold and silver collection.

Will people voluntarily downgrade to FO or most take the displacement?

What’s the need of posting in a 2014 thread?

What's old is new again.

It's not possible to bid FO from a captains seat give current contract, correct?

It'll be a displacement bid. A large one.

What you talking bout' Willis?

furloughs to follow?

the other way around
if there are furloughs, there would be a displacement bid where some CA get to be CA on different equipment or FO on same/different equipment. All depending on the size of the furlough and what the new relative seniority could hold. FO could probably be displaced from base and or 175 too.

do you grasp what’s going on?

Irinically, you quoted a post from 2014

Can we let this thread die again? It's going to be really confusing to keep posting here

lol. Didn’t realize. Stressful times.