McCain Hates Pilots

[71KILO]

I don't know if McCain still flys, but his wife (Cindy) owned a C-172 back in the mid-eighties. I used to fuel and wash her plane (sorta speak). With that said I would say he likes pilots. If his son flys for AA, that just adds to the fire. He doesn't like unions, thats the issue. Especially well paid unions. Arizona is not a big union state, never has been. There are unions there but not like back east. Military officers are conservatives by a wide majority and the McCain family is very military. With that said, I don't think anyone needs to worry about McCain, he's done. Unelectible really. Rudy McRomney is over. It's Rudy Rompson now. McCain's campaign is imploding, read drudge. So who cares really, what his thoughts are on unions.

 

[CitationLover]

I don't know if McCain still flys, but his wife (Cindy) owned a C-172 back in the mid-eighties. I used to fuel and wash her plane (sorta speak). With that said I would say he likes pilots. If his son flys for AA, that just adds to the fire. He doesn't like unions, thats the issue. Especially well paid unions. Arizona is not a big union state, never has been. There are unions there but not like back east. Military officers are conservatives by a wide majority and the McCain family is very military. With that said, I don't think anyone needs to worry about McCain, he's done. Unelectible really. Rudy McRomney is over. It's Rudy Rompson now. McCain's campaign is imploding, read drudge. So who cares really, what his thoughts are on unions.

i wonder if cindy kept her medical from all the drugs she did in the 1990's.

 

[Green]

Wait...senior United pilots make $342,000?

They did before 9/11 hit. Contract 2000 had end of contract top payrates of 345/hr. It's sad that so many pilots have already forgotten where our pay used to be. Everybody thinks current Fedex pay is the be all end all yet it's WAY below prior pay at Dal and Ual. We're our own worst enemies....

 

[Cardinal]

Bumpity, lest we forget.

 

[apache]

You think that Bush/Clinton were bad for this "profession", just wait until McLame gets his hands on the controls......

And in the interest of equal time. Hitlery will be no better.

 

[skiandsurf]

You think that Bush/Clinton were bad for this "profession", just wait until McLame gets his hands on the controls......

And in the interest of equal time. Hitlery will be no better.

Maybe its all politicians dont like pilots. I was at an FBO and Obama walked thru. He shook everyones hand, but not ours.

 

[PCL_128]

Maybe its all politicians dont like pilots. I was at an FBO and Obama walked thru. He shook everyones hand, but not ours.

Did you walk up to him? If you hung back in the shadows, I wouldn't expect him to seek you out.

 

[skiandsurf]

Did you walk up to him? If you hung back in the shadows, I wouldn't expect him to seek you out.

We were at the counter talking to the rampers waiting for his arrival. His parade of SUVs drove him straight to the plane, and he came inside to take a leak. On his way inside, he stopped 5 feet from me to shake hands with the FBO employees. He made no effort to shake my hand, so as he started walking away, I thru my hand out there, and he had to shake my hand.

If any of you have met him, you can back me up, that he has very small hands.

 

[PCL_128]

Probably not intentional. I wouldn't think too much of it.

 

[scarlet]

McCain thinks pilots make to much..He makes now 164,000.00 a year for maybe 6 months of work IN Which HE DOES NOT HAVE TO SHOW UP==

Just ask HILL and OBAMA,,GOD Obama been there what 2 years in Senate and maybe been there 7 whole months...=what a joke....Say the PLEDGE of allegiance to the flag..look it up=he does not cross his heart..check out the church he attends=YOU have to be BLACK....and middle name HUSSEIN? How many Americans do you know with Hussein?

Change==Change to what==tell us=No SUBSTANCE!
He doesn't show up now for change. Like the Iran vote?

 

[PCL_128]

Was that English?

 

[outtahere]

Sorry all but Mcain won Florida, go to the AFL-CIO website and review all of the candadites there. They have the voting records for all that were in the house and senate, as well as their views on labor and unions. McCain is definately the wrong canadate, as well as all of the other republicans. As BAD as I hate to say it, if you are looking for carrer support Hillary would be better than any repub. For what its worth I just re-registerd as a democrat, I can't afford another four years of republican rule. Edwards is my first choice, but he can't win, then I guess Osama, I mean Obama, and then.....ughhhh Bilary.

 

[GFunk20]

Obama '08

 

[apache]

There is only one decent choice for '08.

 

[outtahere]

Don't see that one happenin. Paul has radical ideas, he is just to weird to get elected.

 

[FlickerFade]

I never understand the single-issue voter. I mean Clinton's cutbacks of the military in the '90's cost me my Navy flying gig. Since Hillary supposedly was co-President should I also blame her?

Anyway, I wouldn't choose who I support for President based solely on my airline job.

Plus, why would you want to elect a democrat who might help with that pay raise, only to take it away with higher taxes? Just asking.

 

[PCL_128]

Plus, why would you want to elect a democrat who might help with that pay raise, only to take it away with higher taxes? Just asking.

None of the Dems are going to raise your taxes unless you're a UPS or FedEx Captain. Every other air line pilot would fall short of the taxable income levels that the Dems are proposing tax increases for.

 

[Green]

Plus, why would you want to elect a democrat who might help with that pay raise, only to take it away with higher taxes? Just asking.

are you serious with that? Let's see....A UAL 747 captain is much better off making 342k per year with a generous pension and paying taxes under the Bill Clinton days than he is making the current rate of 180k with the Bush tax cuts. Say what you want but there is no way that airline pilots would have taken it in the shorts so severely post 911 if a dem had been in office for the last 8 years. If your personal creed dictates voting republican then power to you but don't kid yourself into thinking that you wouldn't be better off professionally with Obama, Clinton, Edwards, or Kerry in office. The war on the middle class is real. It is nothing more than a transfer of wealth from the working class to the ruling class.

 

[FlickerFade]

None of the Dems are going to raise your taxes unless you're a UPS or FedEx Captain. Every other air line pilot would fall short of the taxable income levels that the Dems are proposing tax increases for.

Yet, since they don't support making the '03 tax cuts permanent, their inattention would in fact raise my taxes.

 

[PCL_128]

Yet, since they don't support making the '03 tax cuts permanent, their inattention would in fact raise my taxes.

The only part of the marginal tax rates that they don't want to make permanent is the very top rate. None of us fit into that rate (again, unless you're a Captain at UPS or FedEx). They want to make the rest of the rates permanent, and some of them propose even further reductions for middle class taxpayers.