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For those having a hard time financially, don't forget Angel Food Ministries. $30 for a 30 day supply of food.
It's like the Bumber Sticker/ T-Shirt I want to make.Good point-
I love getting to line at Wal-Mart (or pretty much any other store,) and seeing some a-hole pull out one of those EBT cards and pay for crap I can't afford (nice, big steaks, etc.)
If I walk out of the store behind these people, they will invariably pull out a brand new I-Phone or Blackberry and start using in enroute to get into their $40K SUV.
-Real classy people.
altimaklr said:I guess it's ok to defend pilots, but if a walmart worker has kids and gets welfare, then they are selfish lazy mf'ers.
onewithwings said:I have a friend who is working 5 days a week as a research physician and the week end as an ER Dr. in another city (5 hour drive) to make enough money to support his wife and child.
jonjuan said:Are we supposed to feel sorry for a regional FO who decided to have 5 kids? What ever happened to having all debt paid off and then having a significant cash cushion/savings before taking on a mortgage and having kids?
I don't think Dr.'s makes as much as we think. I have a friend who is working 5 days a week as a research physician and the week end as an ER Dr. in another city (5 hour drive) to make enough money to support his wife and child. He is 35 years old. He says he takes a weekend off a month to spend with his family.
He was telling me how, when he was a resident they have to spend 36 hours on duty and how he envied pilots who have gov't mandated time and duty restrictions. He works 12 hour shifts in ER and that is crazy, crazy work. I was floored to hear his story.
My cousin who is a Dr. graduated with so much debt that he went into the Army because they offered to pay all his medical school debt. He is hesitant to go into private practice because of the huge overhead and malpractice insurance costs. For now, he's happy in the Army working a 90 day rotation as a surgeon out of Baghdad.
It's not all peaches and cream...
For those having a hard time financially, don't forget Angel Food Ministries. $30 for a 30 day supply of food.
Maybe this FO with 5 kids doesn't want to be an old man before he has kids. maybe he would like Grandkids one day. How long should we wait?
Then the solution is to get wages up, as you mentioned. But until that happens, yes, a pilot should be forced to make choices. Welfare's purpose is to get people on their feet when they fall on hard times, not to subsidize one family on the back of another. To take food off my table and give to someone who deliberately created a giant family he could not support is unconscionable.No pilot should have to be forced to never have a child just because they chose to become an airline pilot.