ReformAlpa
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- Dec 30, 2005
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Another sell-out of the American Worker
Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning and read this:
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/politics/...s=dgo&psp=news
If I was filthy rich, I would open a flight school in Bangalore, India and train a ***tload of pilots at 10 cents on the dollar.
Hell, I might even call all the airline CEOs to pitch in. (Anyone have Arpey's number? Or that clown from Skybus?)
Imagine: A state-of-the-art pilot training center in Bangalore or Mumbai...with extremely motivated, intelligent, college-educated flight students getting type-rated on 737s, 757s, EMBs...you name it. We could churn out pilots by the THOUSANDS!
Those "GRADUATES" would just love to come over here and fly for 25k/year.
That's your future, boys and girls. Don't like it? Tough ****! You won't get off your lazy, collective a$$es and do something about it.
I know, I know. You pay your dues to SWAPA, ALPA, APA, Teamsters, NPA, etc. Sure, that's enough.
You're probably just gonna sit there and take it and make fun of all the Teamsters truck drivers who are losing their pay & livelyhood. After all....they're only dumb truck drivers. Anyone can drive a truck. You're special:
You are a highly-trained AVIATOR. Your job can't be outsourced. LOL.
I would lobby Congress to exploit the upcoming "pilot shortage". I would have all my minions in the news media force-feeding the idea that american pilots are overpaid and underworked prima-donnas.
"Hey, John Q. Public: Your airfare is waayy too high. It's because the average pilot makes $185,000 per year. AND THEY ONLY WORK 85 HOURS PER MONTH! Pass this law, and your airfare gets lower!"
THEN, I would be able to pass a law to allow those Indian-trained pilots to fly for all the US carriers under some bull**** 'special dispensation' clause.
It will all be sold to the gullible American public because it is good for the consumer.
If I can think of this plan, you know some Frank Lorenzo/Johnathan Ornstein-type is already working on it...and I'm just a dumba$$ pilot.
Why am I going off on this? Because you guys need to wake the ***k up! Some of us already have.
HAVE YOU?
Get off your collective a$$es and do something. Get involved. ****t, run for office. ANYTHING. Stop being a blind, helpless lemming letting the corporate henchmen, politicians, lawyers and the corporation-controlled media take you, me and the middle class for a ride.
Red state vs Blue state....D vs R...it's all BULL**** POSTURING. Divide and Conquer. Oldest trick in the book.
AMERICANS: WAKE THE **LL UP!
Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning and read this:
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/politics/...s=dgo&psp=news
If I was filthy rich, I would open a flight school in Bangalore, India and train a ***tload of pilots at 10 cents on the dollar.
Hell, I might even call all the airline CEOs to pitch in. (Anyone have Arpey's number? Or that clown from Skybus?)
Imagine: A state-of-the-art pilot training center in Bangalore or Mumbai...with extremely motivated, intelligent, college-educated flight students getting type-rated on 737s, 757s, EMBs...you name it. We could churn out pilots by the THOUSANDS!
Those "GRADUATES" would just love to come over here and fly for 25k/year.
That's your future, boys and girls. Don't like it? Tough ****! You won't get off your lazy, collective a$$es and do something about it.
I know, I know. You pay your dues to SWAPA, ALPA, APA, Teamsters, NPA, etc. Sure, that's enough.
You're probably just gonna sit there and take it and make fun of all the Teamsters truck drivers who are losing their pay & livelyhood. After all....they're only dumb truck drivers. Anyone can drive a truck. You're special:
You are a highly-trained AVIATOR. Your job can't be outsourced. LOL.
I would lobby Congress to exploit the upcoming "pilot shortage". I would have all my minions in the news media force-feeding the idea that american pilots are overpaid and underworked prima-donnas.
"Hey, John Q. Public: Your airfare is waayy too high. It's because the average pilot makes $185,000 per year. AND THEY ONLY WORK 85 HOURS PER MONTH! Pass this law, and your airfare gets lower!"
THEN, I would be able to pass a law to allow those Indian-trained pilots to fly for all the US carriers under some bull**** 'special dispensation' clause.
It will all be sold to the gullible American public because it is good for the consumer.
If I can think of this plan, you know some Frank Lorenzo/Johnathan Ornstein-type is already working on it...and I'm just a dumba$$ pilot.
Why am I going off on this? Because you guys need to wake the ***k up! Some of us already have.
HAVE YOU?
Get off your collective a$$es and do something. Get involved. ****t, run for office. ANYTHING. Stop being a blind, helpless lemming letting the corporate henchmen, politicians, lawyers and the corporation-controlled media take you, me and the middle class for a ride.
Red state vs Blue state....D vs R...it's all BULL**** POSTURING. Divide and Conquer. Oldest trick in the book.
AMERICANS: WAKE THE **LL UP!