This Is Your Wake Up Call Part 2 (responses)When I wrote the "This Is Your Wake Up" I debated urging your support of the pilots running for Congress. Perhaps, my message was diluted by my suggestion that you support them? I would like to take this opportunity to say that the party affiliation is insignificant (to me) what is significant is that these 2 gentlemen understand the airline industry and how crucial it is to America. We have tried to educate people...... judges, politicians, press but they all seem to get stuck on the "you only work 80 hours a month". It would be nice to have some people in Washington that don't need tutoring before the discussion begins. editor@bigjetcity.com Some Responses: Great letter; who wrote it? It sounds like a plea for financial support for Democratic candidates, who will need to change the attitude of their Party leaders that are responsible for the fuel shortage, killing off so many airlines. The American people know there's a critical fuel shortage, and I will not call them or contact them to vote for more Democrats. If they can't figure out the problem when they pay for their gasoline, we sure aren't going to penetrate those rocks of brains. I would like to believe the new guys will make a difference, but there is no way I will risk supporting a Dem (or a Repub, for that matter). Their Party is controlled by wacko radicals who are killing this Country in any number of ways. Unintended consequences are the hallmark of Liberal ideas; they are never thought through to the inevitable disasters they cause. Bless you for your hope and fortitude, but the American electorate have to learn the hard way, and it is going to hurt us all, I'm afraid. Denis O'Malley Support Senator Byron D-N.D. and his Bill " End Oil Speculation Act" http://thomas.loc.gov/ He had an Editorial in USA TODAY June 30th.
Dan Davis Excellent letter. We may have to use a version of this for the florida today? Our country's middle class is under assault and are barely making it. If we continue down this path we will be 2 class society. I like your optimism, but my experience with the government is that 2 freshman congressman will have zero impact! Paul Things are changing for sure, but the answers are not going to come from congress. They are the people that are supposed to see these things coming, after all they have huge budgets for intellegence and committee meetings, etc, where they find out what is going on, listen to the experts, and decide what can best be done to help America. Only they don't do that, they help themselves their friends and their reelection chances. We are in all these crises because Congress is playing power games and they want their party to have control of the trough. It doesn't really seem to make a difference who the Representatives are or what party they come from. It is a horribly ineffective group. As for the airlines, we need a new idea again and it is probably not possible from the executives that are now running the companies. What I think will happen is a lot of the smaller cities will lose their service and when they get enough interest in Congress, air service to these cities will have to be subsidized to make economic sense and only one or two airlines will get that subsidy. In other words, reregulation. Airlines will no longer be mass transit, but will return to a premium way to travel as it had been in the past. Is that a good thing or bad thing? It will just be a change in the thinking and method and will run that way until someone else gets a new idea. Spontaneity is not a right. It may be fun at times and destructive at others, but having a reduction of it in many areas of our lives will probably be a good thing. I think hope is a good thing and have always had it, but to base political decisions on it without any plans is not a good idea. 70% of America's homeowners have good solid mortgages that they can pay. Drilling for more oil and producing Nuclear power will help with energy. Most people have health insurance and EVERONE can go to the Emergency room as needed. Starbucks and McDonald's are full. Gas prices are horrible, but the roads are still full and they are not all necessary trips for sure. Are you in horrible shape, probably not and that is the case for most people. They are convinced that although they are doing okay, there are poor people that must be saved. And our longevity just reached over 78 years in the US. Highest it has ever been. Without talking about crises what would you do to keep a 24 hour news channel busy? Without crises why would you need to have the government to gain more power, restrict our freedom and "take care" of us? What would the new guys talk about? Create the crisis and you can get some mileage from it. Sorry, but I can't respond to a "wake up call". Good luck with your friend's elections. Marc To fix our present problems with the airlines and our economy, it's going to take a hell of a lot more than two guys going to Washington to plead with our politicians. With third world countries advancing into the industrial age and a growing world population, we need vast increases in supply to reverse the run-up in energy prices. In other words, this is a real world problem involving supply and demand. The solution lies beyond simple declarations, new laws or law suites. The solution will not be instantaneous. What we need is a 'Manhattan' scale project to become energy self sufficient as soon as possible. Even the threat of such an effort would probably lower prices. The quicker Americans realize and face up to the fact that our modern economies are based on cheap, abundant energy, the better. What we really need to do is throw out every politician that is blocking the development energy supplies and power plants. That would be a worthy goal we could all work at. R.K. As usual a well written commentary on the sad state of affairs in the industry in which we grew old in and perhaps lost what was left of our innocence!-:) Rusty G'morning, LeAnne... Another cause, I love it! BigJetCity.com |
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