CBreezy

No roads lead to Juneau. Not even the ice one.

CBreezy

I'm more concerned that almost 300x that much is poured into maintaining an aging and irrelevant nuclear arsenal. And was shocked that we pay more for food stamps than we do for the entire department of education.

send a check

Sure why not!!!

A lot of the Alaska EAS flying I did was incredible.

To address a very specific segment of the EAS traffic:

I do think that mostly native communities, without any road service, should be provided some form of EAS. The people residing in those communities have lived in those areas for thousands of years.

Thet did not "choose" too live somewhere based on market forces or any metric your average "American" can understand. They are from a group that became engulfed by our culture and our way of life. The Natives have lived in the same area for 10,000 years. That's 7500 years before classical Greece. Meanwhile we have obliterated their way of life.

I imagine if the US had gotten to Alaska a few hundred years earlier the policy of eradication and genocide that was carried out here in the lower 48 would have made EAS a moot point. But since we did leave some Native people alive in AK I think we should give the few that remain a ride.

I think between the poverty, alcohol, fetal alcohol syndrome, suicides, sugary diabetes diets and gutted education the problem will take care of itself in another hundred years. The best suited to assimilate will do fine and thrive and the ones that can't will die!!

Flying a few 207's back and forth won't put a dent in the 20 trillion in debt and the other countless trillions in unfunded liabilities the USA is on the hook for.

No Land 3

We could fix most problems if we threw every politician into debtors prison.

jcountry

Good.

You can spend your $2. I'll happily keep mine.

CBreezy

That's not how taxes work thankfully. You don't get to choose. I vote and am politically​ active.

Nevjets

We have chosen but the politicians don't follow the constitution...and we let them get away with it.

CBreezy

Don't be hyperbolic.

HighFlight

He was actually just stating a fact. Only a liberal would use your argument.

Sent you a PM a while back.

CBreezy

Yeah, PMs don't show up on the mobile interface. I just responded. And I do lean liberal and am 100% okay with the Federal Government having a larger role. That being said, I also think government waste needs to be addressed. I just don't think eliminating the entire EAS program is the way to do it. Maybe try by eliminating a percentage off the funds. Study the economic impact of those areas and maybe encourage states who utilize EAS to get rid of subsidies to unprofitable routes within an hour of another airport.