Ethical Realism is another example of a neo-con trying to sound like the Iraq Study Group
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If you are one of the airline passengers that has spent 4 hours or
more sitting at an airport in an airplane or waiting on an airplane to
arrive, you can thank Ronald Reagan and the Republican majority in the
Senate in 1981 and Rep. Phil Gramm and the Boll Weevil Congress and
Supply Side economics and greedy airline CEOs with Harvard Business
School degrees who inherited a wonderful system of commercial
aviation and turned it to shit. If you have been held up by weather
while in the commercial airline system, you can be eternally grateful
to people who think like Ayn Rand and William F. Buckley and Dick
Cheney . If you are reading this while sitting in an airplane 10 feet
away from the terminal stuck in the snow, you are sitting in the shit
people produced by people who are embraced of conservatism.
Everybody who votes against the House resolution thinks like Dick
Cheney. Everybody who votes against the Senate resolution thinks like
Dick Cheney. Everything people who think like Dick Cheney touch turns
to shit. If you are stuck in ice in the American airline system,
always remember this: the Democrats put a man on the moon and the
people who think like Dick Cheney put Casey Sheehan in Baghdad. And
put you in your seat on an airplane full of people and bathrooms full
of shit and can explain why mercenary organizations are more cost
effective at anything the US Army can do, from peeling potatoes to
peeling sunburn from a child's nose at a civil affairs medical unit.
Nothing these asshole Blackwater bloodsuckers can do is worth the
price they extract from the soul of America. And the people who think
like Dick Cheney are the same people like Doug Brooks of the
International Peace Operations Association will tell you that
introducing outlaws into anarchy is in anywise cost effective. If you
are sitting in an airplane configured for Japanese school children
with shit flowing out of the bathrooms and into the galley and the
airport and airline cannot get your airplane out of the ice and you
out of the system, much less the airplane, the same people who agree
with Doug Brooks and Dick Cheney that mercenaries are cost effective
are the same people receiving Executive Compensation from the airline
of your choice.
There was a woman on NBC who is talking about organizing a passenger
bill of rights and, if she is serious about this, she and anyone
interested should contact David Stempler of the Airline Passengers
Association and take heed of his essential airline model. He worked
on the YaK-40 project with me and my partner and he started up APA
based on the aviation model we were working with at the time. Just
for the purposes, lets say that there are 3 operational models: the
true Legacy model, the FedEx model (which is a newer, better model)
and the Freddy Laker model, which is actually a supplemental system
designed to materialize synergies produced by either of the other 2
models (or a synthesis of the 2), but are not sufficiently capitalized
to generate their own dynamics in any useful economy of scale. The
object of the exercise of Airline De-Regulation, as developed by the
FAA professionals associated with Jim Dow and within the context of
Nixon's airline model, was to allow the Legacy model to transform
itself into a synthesis of the Legacy and FedEx model based on the
business traveler for its bread and butter and to optimize its return
to stockholders by optimizing the Freddy Laker element around the
tourist passenger.
Instead, people who think like Dick Cheney have converted the entire
system to the Freddy Laker model with a single tier of passenger:
tourists will to pay 1st Class passage for a banana boat experience.
I haven't talked to Stempler for 20 years and I don't know what he is
doing, but if you are serious about reforming the airlines, start with
him and hook up with Stuart Eisenstadt, who was Carter's domestic czar
and he is the one who made the Nixon-Moynihan Affirmative Action
agenda rock-and-roll and he was an important contributing architect in
airline deregulation, which was never implemented by Reagan and was in
fact pretty much abandoned with Patco.
Unless you enjoy smelling your own sweat and some baby with colic's
wrapped in napkins because its mom ran out of diapers 2 hours ago,
about the time you were supposed to have actually arrived at your
destination. In which case, vote for the people who vote against the
Resolution in the House and the Resolution in the Senate, because they
all think like Dick Cheney and the people who think like Dick Cheney
think things are going according to plan. When you're the boss,
keeping the boss happy means flying by corporate jet.
And that's the truth.