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06-08-2014, 12:56 PM
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So when do the big corporate CEO's start saying that their compensations are too high and that things need to change? Those are the articles I want to read, not the guy who is retired after 20 years nailing down a whopping 30K.
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06-08-2014, 01:09 PM
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So when do the big corporate CEO's start saying that their compensations are too high and that things need to change? Those are the articles I want to read, not the guy who is retired after 20 years nailing down a whopping 30K.
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I'd like to see the board of directors do the same about the low corporate tax rates.
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06-08-2014, 01:15 PM
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I'd like to see the board of directors do the same about the low corporate tax rates.
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Come on Bob, haven't you heard? The US has the highest corporate tax rates in the world. How would they pay their CEO's and stockholders if they had to pay more tax? 
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06-08-2014, 01:39 PM
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Come on Bob, haven't you heard? The US has the highest corporate tax rates in the world. How would they pay their CEO's and stockholders if they had to pay more tax? |
I know.... what was I thinking? We should go after the real money. Let's send the Marines to all of the offshore havens of the multi national corps and occupy them. 
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06-08-2014, 01:42 PM
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Actually it is not as easy to get those jobs as you think. And helicopter pilots generally do not fly once they are out.....just not enough demand in the civilians world for choppers.
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Au contraire mon frere. I know exactly how easy, or not easy it is and was to get a jetliner pilot job with one of the majors. I have two friends who are retired from the business, one from Northwest (L-1011's), and one from AA (737's and 757's - I think. And the former was a Huey pilot in Vietnam. I know its a tough job to land these days, buy that doesn't mean that a whole bunch of Navy and Air Force pilots don't dream about it and aren't going to take a run at it.
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06-08-2014, 03:29 PM
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Au contraire mon frere. I know exactly how easy, or not easy it is and was to get a jetliner pilot job with one of the majors. I have two friends who are retired from the business, one from Northwest (L-1011's), and one from AA (737's and 757's - I think. And the former was a Huey pilot in Vietnam. I know its a tough job to land these days, buy that doesn't mean that a whole bunch of Navy and Air Force pilots don't dream about it and aren't going to take a run at it.
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Worked for a major carrier and to fly with one you start out doing commuters. I was making more then those guys. They really have it tough the way the major carriers (mainline) dangle that carrot of a job.
Living away from home in an apartment with twenty or more other guys. Rent a bed that sorta thing. Having to commute from you home to the base for your trip. Then get in to late to get a flight out home and the airport authority makes you leave, can't sleep here! So they sleep in the break room on chairs. I even seen the airport authority make out of state pilots get there cars tagged if they park them in the employee parking lot.
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06-08-2014, 03:44 PM
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Worked for a major carrier and to fly with one you start out doing commuters. I was making more then those guys. They really have it tough the way the major carriers (mainline) dangle that carrot of a job.
Living away from home in an apartment with twenty or more other guys. Rent a bed that sorta thing. Having to commute from you home to the base for your trip. Then get in to late to get a flight out home and the airport authority makes you leave, can't sleep here! So they sleep in the break room on chairs. I even seen the airport authority make out of state pilots get there cars tagged if they park them in the employee parking lot.
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My old friend the Huey gunship pilot loved his job at Northwest. But he's been retired for probably close to 10 years now...so I'll buy that it may not be what it used to be.
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06-08-2014, 05:13 PM
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06-09-2014, 10:08 AM
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So much for all the benefits of airline deregulation, eh? Seems to me we need to decide if we want the safest possible air travel or cheap-ass fares.
And so, for a long time we got the cheap-ass fares, and now all we seem to be able to do is piss and moan about add-on charges and crap service.
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