It's a double-edged sword.

Post #264,061 by bionerd 8/7/06 11:36:31 AM Reply	It's a double-edged sword. Financially, I've never thought I could survive on the income I have now. Now, it's not the President's fault that I got divorced and changed jobs which resulted in a huge paycut. But the bulk of my income depends on the aviation industry, which has been tanking since 9/11. I blame the current administration for this. The other part of my income comes from the clinic. Health insurance benefits are decreasing. Out of pocket costs are increasing. Fewer insured people can afford the "luxury" of outpatient counseling, unless the situation is urgent/emergent. Our health care delivery system is a mess, and that directly impacts my ability to pull in a decent salary. When I look at having to manage my life as a single parent,though, I gladly accept the financial hardships for the opportunity to be available to my kids. It allows me to be the kind of parent I want to be, and that keeps me sane. Everything is a trade-off.
Post #264,062 by bepatient 8/7/06 11:44:48 AM Reply	Now wait just a minute But the bulk of my income depends on the aviation industry, which has been tanking since 9/11. I blame the current administration for this. This I gotta hear. The airlines are the worst managed industry segment...so much so as to be in a class by themselves. Their problems are NOT simply related to jet fuel prices...which is about the only thing you could remotely blame on the current administration. The fact that they actually made money once, in about 1993 (when fuel was at its lowest) and then gave all of their profits to the unions...thus sealing their fate when fuel went up would have nothing to do with it. The fact that 3 airlines run 12 flights per day between the same 2 cities...in a market that can only support 6 flights period would also have nothing to do with it. Your NEXT paragraph re: health benefits I could see blaming the current administration for well before I would blame the airlines on it. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #266,770 by mmoffitt 9/5/06 4:59:15 PM Reply	Hold on there, babalooey. Air travel is infrastructure. It is, in and of itself, an enabling service. As bad as the management of the hub/spoke system has been, it is the height of disingenousness to blame the collapse of airlines on unions. Jesus H, man, was the Kool-Aid from your Reagan Youth club that strong? The management teams have all (personally) done extremely well. As have all passengers (wanna go from ORD to MCO for $39? No problem). It's the flight attendants, pilots, mechanics and ticket agents who have taken it in the rear. And we all benefited - er, all of us that have flown commercial in that past 15 years. You'll love this Beep. While Dub & Co certainly have not helped commercial aviation, the true culprit, the man and the administration who more than any other began swinging the rope connected to the death bell for commercial aviation was Jimmy Carter. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #266,777 by bepatient 9/5/06 6:38:07 PM Reply	I didn't. I blamed it on MANAGEMENT. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #266,910 by mmoffitt 9/7/06 10:35:53 AM Reply	Last on this. gave all of their profits to the unions...thus sealing their fate when fuel went up Sure sounded like union bashing to me. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #266,921 by bepatient 9/7/06 12:04:46 PM Reply	2 sides in every negotiation. Mgt caved. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}

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