Deregulation and where it has gotten us.
03-04-2008, 10:10 AM
#21
A moment please...
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I will probably agree with you, BTW. JP
03-04-2008, 10:18 AM
#22
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03-04-2008, 10:30 AM
#23
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It really should come down to what is best for the country when voting, not what is best for me. Sorry to turn this into political, but just because McCain is anti-union shouldn't cause you not to vote for him. I don't agree with some of his positions, but for the country, I believe there is no contest between the socialists Obama/Hillary and McCain. Just to vote for Obama/Hillary b/c they are pro-union is kind of selfish. Just remember what Bill said, "shared prosperity". Shared prosperity is socialsim.
03-04-2008, 10:33 AM
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Che Guevara
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There's no solid answer on this but I lean heavily towards no. We talked about this sometime back. I went and pulled a table that showed the amount of flight operations per year by 121 carriers. The amount of operations increased at a pretty linear rate. There wasn't any explosive change. My opinion is deregulation did one thing and that's allow LCCs to lower the standard across the board. No more actual hot meals or real utensils. Now we're having to pay AA to get a blanket or pillow.
03-04-2008, 10:38 AM
#25
Che Guevara
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It really should come down to what is best for the country when voting, not what is best for me. Sorry to turn this into political, but just because McCain is anti-union shouldn't cause you not to vote for him. I don't agree with some of his positions, but for the country, I believe there is no contest between the socialists Obama/Hillary and McCain. Just to vote for Obama/Hillary b/c they are pro-union is kind of selfish. Just remember what Bill said, "shared prosperity". Shared prosperity is socialsim.
03-04-2008, 10:52 AM
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Ben Salley
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BTW. My statements are political, as is just about everything, but not partisan. I think deregulation's implementation was horrible. And mostly Ted Kennedy's baby with much assistance from Maxine Waters.
03-04-2008, 10:59 AM
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I agree with that, however, it seems most people get tunnel-vision. McCain is anti-union so I'll never vote for him. So they vote for whoever is pro-union without looking at the other baggage that goes along with them, ie: pro-choice, tax increase, health care, etc.
03-04-2008, 12:46 PM
#28
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Be careful. Capitalism ,unchecked, is just as bad as socialism my friend. Reference the Bush administration.
03-04-2008, 06:40 PM
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I wonder how the cal pilots (with families) feel about affordable health care...
03-04-2008, 06:47 PM
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Correct me if I,m wrong here but did we not have the same type of go=go mentallity in the 90,S?as we seem to have now!maybe I,m missing something here.Let me see we had the dot com scam and now we have a credit mess .
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