....This is from a Rail Foamer Friend of mine! Pretty interesting! Bryant Petitt Cumming, GA --- MilesPost@xxxxxxx wrote: > From: MilesPost@xxxxxxx > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:42:03 EDT > Subject: Re: [Sky-1] RE: Delta announces up to > 7,000 job cuts > To: skyshirts@xxxxxxxxx, mgreenwood@xxxxxxxxx, > canadian_pacific_ry@xxxxxxx > > In a message dated 9/9/2004 5:22:47 AM Pacific > Daylight Time, > skyshirts@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > With U.S. military activities on the rise in recent > years, it seems like > there may be a new crop of pilots ready and willing > to work -- for less -- within > 1-3 years. Maybe Song could hire them as the new > bus drivers of the sky 'for > a song'. > > ************************************************************ > > We could extrapolate on that philosophy even more > and bring over a bunch of > pilots from India and China on extended work visas. > I'm sure they'd probably > be willing to fly a plane for one-one-hundredth of > the salary of your typical > Delta pilot. The concept of bringing cheap, > exploitable workers here to the > U.S. on extended work visas has already happened in > the Silicon Valley. The > place is crawling with people from India. > > If you can't relocate the factory (or airline) to a > country where there's a > limitless supply of cheap, exploitable labor, you > can always relocate the > workers to whereever the work is. > > Think how much fun it will be for the control tower > operators and air traffic > controllers to try and translate all those weird > foreign dialects! Listening > in on a radio scanner will be a riot! > > And just think how cheap airfares are destined to > become! > > We're witnessing the "Wal-Mart-ization" of our > economy. > > "Always the low price leader. Always." > > ~Miles Post > > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool