HUD- Some Airline Pilots may qualify for section 8.

[airplane wizard]

Walmart has allowed families to buy clothing and shoes and food who otherwise could not have afforded the same quality or quantity. Walmart has saved families thousands of dollars so they can buy books and other necessities for their kids. Walmart has provided thousands of jobs to people who otherwise would be on welfare. Walmart has done far more good for this country than bad.

Yes....they create jobs, but they are only $8-$10/hr jobs. You can't live on that. They have also cause jobs to move overseas by demanding the lowest possible price from their suppliers.

 

[AvroJockey]

Ya know what folks,

I am sick and tired of this whining. Why on earth are pilots entitled to some higher standard of living than the rest of the population, just because we're pilots? I've heard all the lame arguments about the level of training, the expense of training, whatever. But for pete's sake- there are irregularities like that all over our supposed free-market system and I don't hear us as a group addressing those at all.

Do you shop at Walmart? Do you not feel the least bit bad about buying that low priced microwave, knowing full well that thirty years ago some UNION worker at a GE plant lost his job, because Sam Walton thought it a good idea to get the stuff cheaper from China?

When was the last time you voted FOR a property tax increase in order to give school teachers a raise????

When was the last time you got on AMAZON and paid the highest price you could for anything? Knowing full well that it was your God-ordered duty to pay the highest price, thus enriching the lives of everyone in the supply chain!!!

Have you voted Democrat 100% of the time? Knowing that unions and the AFLCIO fully back the Democrats and their ideal of worker's rights.


Blah blah blah!!!!

Vote with your vote.

Vote with your feet.

Vote with your wallet.

Until you do all those, quit your whining and enjoy the ride on this magnificent wealth building innovative machine, we call the almost kinda sort've free market economy.

You can't have it both ways people!!!

Now go heat up your tears in that cheap made-in-China microwave and shut up!!

I agree with buscap for the most part. Free market forces at work here people...supply and demand. BTW, This is where ALPA has failed pilots miserably. They still use blunt force tactics that were used in a regulated era to accomplish their goals. This doesn't work any more. They should be using microeconomics to influence wage rates, not strikes.

I do agree that whining serves no other purpose than to display your character. If you don't like the pay then quit. In fact, if we refused to work for such measly wages then it would effect supply-side economics and raise wages. Assuming airlines can't lower their minimums anymore, because of bills going through congress.

I do realize this is easier said than done, because we all love to fly and couldn't imagine doing anything else. Right? We all love to do this job and some will take anything to do it...to a point. I say this because I have recently found myself at the short end of a furlough list. I have set certain minimum standards for my family, and if a flying job can't meet those standards then I'll find something else to do. That's what's great about this country, and what many of us take for granted...Liberty!!! It's just the name of the game, and I would take that over the perils of socialism any day.

 

[AvroJockey]

He's filing bankruptcy and no, he doesn't live outside of his means. He drives a 1992 Ford, she has a old Honda Accord.

Bankruptcy is design to eliminate unsecured debt...nothing more. If they are filing for bankruptcy then they have unsecured debt and were living beyond their means. The only exception is to this is medical debt, which is the major cause of bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy doesn't pay your mortgage or eliminate student loans.

 

[CessnaFan]

U need help.

Ya know what folks,

I am sick and tired of this whining. Why on earth are pilots entitled to some higher standard of living than the rest of the population, just because we're pilots? I've heard all the lame arguments about the level of training, the expense of training, whatever. But for pete's sake- there are irregularities like that all over our supposed free-market system and I don't hear us as a group addressing those at all.

Do you shop at Walmart? Do you not feel the least bit bad about buying that low priced microwave, knowing full well that thirty years ago some UNION worker at a GE plant lost his job, because Sam Walton thought it a good idea to get the stuff cheaper from China?

When was the last time you voted FOR a property tax increase in order to give school teachers a raise????

When was the last time you got on AMAZON and paid the highest price you could for anything? Knowing full well that it was your God-ordered duty to pay the highest price, thus enriching the lives of everyone in the supply chain!!!

Have you voted Democrat 100% of the time? Knowing that unions and the AFLCIO fully back the Democrats and their ideal of worker's rights.


Blah blah blah!!!!

Vote with your vote.

Vote with your feet.

Vote with your wallet.

Until you do all those, quit your whining and enjoy the ride on this magnificent wealth building innovative machine, we call the almost kinda sort've free market economy.

You can't have it both ways people!!!

Now go heat up your tears in that cheap made-in-China microwave and shut up!!