Who cares about the poor? I used to work at a rent to own store when I was in school. 99% of the customers were from the hood. Within 3 seconds of walking in the front door you can tell why they are poor trash. Poverty is a mental disease in the U.S. With all the opportunity we have available to us here the only reason you are poor is because you choose to be.

Poor people need to quit whining pal. I have been into hundreds of section 8 houses and apartments. They live better than most working families. I have seen these clowns in the line at the grocery store buying steak and expensive name brand stuff I dont even buy due to the cost, then they pay for their beer and smokes with cash. Screw the poor and their sympathizers. You need to get out in the real world pal. That libtard liberal arts college crap doesn't fly with me. American poor live better than the middle class in many countries.

 

OK, way to be racist. Being poor affects more than just African Americans. You're limited view of poverty is only a small slice of the reality. And yeah, some of those "poor" people aren't as poor as they would claim because they are selling drugs, prostituting and doing other illegal activities to get cash with out having to report it. But that is a separate issue that needs to be addressed and much more harshly than is currently done.

All I'm saying is that a flat tax would make it even harder for those who do want to make it out of poverty to succeed.

As for your argument that people choose to be poor, I don't think anyone WANTS to be poor. Are there people who want to be lazy? Sure. Are there people that don't do a good job and don't deserve to make a lot of money? Sure. But there are plenty of people in poverty who were just unlucky and had the perfect storm hit them. Could some of them have made smarter choices? Probably but we're all only human. I'm not saying there shouldn't be poverty. Some poverty will always exist, because some people don't want to work. Fine. Let them be poor if that's their choice. But let's not make the rules in such a way that we make it harder for them to get out from that situation if they chose to.

 

Way to put words in the guys mouth. I was unaware that talking about the poor was racist, oh that's right, here in America if someone says something that offends you then they are automatically a racist and a bigot. He also never mentioned African Americans in his post, just the poor. Now if when you think of the word poor and you automatically think of African Americans, then maybe you are the one with racist tendencies.

 

Amen Brother... but good luck getting a Liberal to believe it

 

Where did he say anything about Blacks? What don't poor whites peps live in the hood too? It's how he perceived it and he's entitled to his opinion...les not forget we still have freedom of speech...for now

 

How does any of the last two pages relate to fines against AE and CO? Mods should close this thread.

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AMR is pretty much subsidizing the FAA Budget with all the fines they have paid out in the past years.

 

I'm amused at the opinions of pilots, who after watching our business get decimated over the past 10 years STILL side with the "rich"... You know, the Glenn Tiltons of the world who cut 50% of the pay of their workers, but reward themselves with a fat 40% payraise.

So my radical right wing friend who is on his second furlough from a major airline living off unemployment because the only job hes qualified for is a $17k copilot regional job is "stupid"? Because he is now pretty freaking poor! He is finally seeing the light, that casting stones in glass houses is a pretty dumb idea for someone who works as a pilot.

Hope you never get furloughed or lose your medical and find out that your life's work is ruined and your options are quite limited in this crappy economy. I'd hate to have to call you "stupid".

 

Well, people who stick to their philosophical principles, even when it's no longer in their economic interest to do so, "elicit the same sort of admiration that one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria's funeral."

(stolen from a Bill Buckley endorsement of a Hunter Thompson book)

 

Ha!! Thanks for the visual!

Probably easier said when retired. Ive spent my whole life training for a very specific skill set. Starting over now would certainly not be economically ideal.

To the gent who posted that 40% of Americans don't lay taxes... What source are you using for THAT claim? And how do 40% of Americans avoid sales tax? All go shopping in Washington State?

Finally, before we all just slam poor folks as all being worthless, dumb, inadequate trash, you might want to remember that you are posting this on a regional airline pilot board. Unless Daddy is rich, there are a LOT of Pilots who are definitely poor who are reading this