Maybe a reson to vote Dem.

[SilverandSore]

If you give the tax cuts to the middle and lower classes (pilots fit nicely in this group), guess what they're going to do with that money? They're going to go buy more stuff and stimulate the economy. When you give all the breaks to the top income earners, yes, they reinvest some but also shelter, outsource and remove it from the US economy.

Just had to put my $.02 in...

Oh, and that's not what Obama is going to do anyway, get ready for a tax increase. The Bush cuts expire in the next few years and there is no way Pelosi et al would ever pass up a free tax increase.

 

[labbats]

So you quote an article from prior to 9/11/01 about high pilot salaries. I'm relatively certain he wouldn't say that now.

I'm going to vote for whoever has the guts to chase down terrorists instead of talking them to death. Someone who spent time for our country in a POW camp is the best of the three IMO.

But it is a free country and the right to vote as you please is the best part of it. Just make sure that you do vote when the time comes.

 

[txpilot1974]

All three candidates suck. We will have to choose between a giant ****************************** and a turd sandwich in the end.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

It's NOT a reason to vote Democrat. It's a reason TO NOT vote Replublican.

Time for a new direction.
http://www.lp.org/

 

[Abernathy]

So you quote an article from prior to 9/11/01 about high pilot salaries. I'm relatively certain he wouldn't say that now.

I'm going to vote for whoever has the guts to chase down terrorists instead of talking them to death. Someone who spent time for our country in a POW camp is the best of the three IMO.

But it is a free country and the right to vote as you please is the best part of it. Just make sure that you do vote when the time comes.

Instead of "talking them to death"? Diplomacy as an alternative to sending more young troops into fire seems like a great idea to me. If you don't talk and negotiate with your enemies, they'll always be your enemies and you'll be making more in the process. But you don't think like that. You're "shoot first" without realizing the consequences.

And yes, he would say that now. As long as we have pilots making 6 figures and "working less than 80 hours a month" (the moron thinks the actual flight time is the only work we do), he's going to have a chip on his shoulder. And guess whose side he will be on when contracts are up in '09? Yours and mine?

Democrats are labor friendly, moreso than the GOP will ever be. Let's not kid ourselves. I know it's "manly" and "badass" to be a Republican, but let's grow up and look at what's going to help our profession.

I'd rather make more money and pay a slightly higher % of tax than make a lot less under an administration that would quell any sign of a strike when management decides to dock us 20% more. GOP=Management's side, always. It's the Republican way.

If McCain comes in and gives another tax break, he's going to manifest the fact that he already admitted. The economy is not his "strongpoint." His way of saying he doesn't know sh*t about it. Tax break + spending more money we don't have (because of said tax breaks) = even bigger deficit.

I know Republicans hate paying for social programs and keeping the welfare system alive, but that's a small price to pay to keep your profession from tanking. Might have to let that one go.

And you need to drop the fantasy that just because Democrats typically don't have gun-toting, NRA lovefests means they aren't into defending America.

 

[labbats]

Actually I'm pro small government. I also believe in walk softly and carry a big stick. We haven't been walking softly, but that can change.

I don't own a gun, but support the choice of people to do so. Please don't tell me how I think.

I don't trust Hillary (who does?) and Obama is as good a pick as any, I'm just leaning more towards McCain because he seems to be the most straightforward about his views.

 

[Abernathy]

I'm just leaning more towards McCain because he seems to be the most straightforward about his views.

You're right. He was pretty straightforward about his views on pilots.

I also believe in walk softly and carry a big stick. We haven't been walking softly, but that can change.

With McCain?

 

[HA25]

Obama has my vote.. nothing is going to change that.

 

[coonass]

Dont get me wrong, I hate all the people running in the race. But why should I have to pay for someone else medical insurance when I have to pay my families. why do I have to pay more taxs because of social security, when I want be ale to use it when I get older. I disagree with war and I beleive in talking but talking to Hamas and other terriost org. is not going to work at all. They want us dead plane and simple. you can talk all you want to them they still want you dead. You can give them all the money you want and they will use that money to kill you. Talking doesnt work. Iam a Dem and I hate to say it but i think iam going to have to vote Rep

 

[PCL_128]

Obama has my vote.. nothing is going to change that.

Maybe you're not so bad after all.