These two posts above make a good point. Stop sensationalising and the world is not as cut and dry as some want it to be. The Fox news mentality is dragging our country down and dividing us all.
To a certain extent I understand were AirCobra is coming from. There have been times when labor goes to far. But as far as Spirit goes, how much they are willing to take from management is their decision and if they are unified and have gotten to the point of a strong majority voting for a strike, than they are fighting the good fight and we all need to be supportive.
Keep in mind that's a long way from an actual strike, but if management, like so many others in this country has gotten way to greedy and is lacking in fairness to the employees, than the pilots are doing what has to be done. A strike vote can be a very effective tool in a negotiation.
AirCobra, when you throw out the "dirty coomie, socialist" crap you start to sound like a member of the lunatic fringe in this country that go around calling the President of the United States a "Socialist".
This country was built on the middle class and it was what made us great. We are slipping more and more into the haves and have nots with a few people at the top making way more than they should at the expense of the majority. I hope the President can start steering us back in that direction.
Not to sound like a first grader but "he started it" with the sensationalism about OJI and taking peoples jobs. I think is very divisive to lie and say you haven't done things that you have only to make a point at someone else's expense.
As far as the President goes I don't think he is a Socialist at all, and have stated so in the posts. As far as Rez goes, I separate the political Rez from the Rez I am talking to here. If Rez wants to post articles from Socialist websites, I don't really care, but I want him to be honest about it. Why? because the articles he posts he often doesn't source, so I believe he is misrepresenting them as news rather than what they are which are, opinion and left wing conspiracy most of the time. This is a dishonest way to try and influence people. I only became angry when he tried to affect the relief efforts in Haiti based on a conspiracy presented by a Socialist website. How would you have reacted especially of you had been lived in Haiti and understood what it was like there?
I asked a very simple question. If Spirit does strike, what will be gained? I didn't get much of an answer other if they don't can't have a decent pay and schedule and a strike bankrupts the airline, then good riddance. I asked if this was a good position and perhaps we should try a different approach? Well go back and read the responses. Did I ever call anyone a moron, did I ever threaten anyone? Yet I am the "hater" and I sound like the "lunatic fringe"? For what? Asking what we hope to accomplish, or saying maybe we are going about things the wrong way, not based on some lunatic notion of mine, but on our history.
So ask me what ALPA problems are, well it starts here. Too many people are willing to shout down and marginalize anyone critical of ALPA for any reason because of the fear it will show management some sort of disunity. I contend this attitude makes us weaker, not stronger. Don't you know people that have been turned off by this attitude, because I sure do. Am I asking too much for other peoples opinions to be respected , even if there is disagreement, to do away with all the damn defensiveness, and oh yeah stop with the threats and insults, since I have yet to find how threats and insults promote unity. Is that too much to ask?
