Doom and gloomers in this forum will be most unhappy with this commentary.
When I posted it, they wouldn’t come out to play. :)
I think they forgot:
11. The US economy cannot survive without cheap, (illegal) immigrant labor. Beside, we can’t deport ‘em all, so lets make them all citizens. [After which, we will actually start enforcing the law. Really. Honest. No kidding. ]
The truth is that illegal labor is only cheap for the employer; it is very expensive for the rest of us, both financially and culturally.
Our strength is our diversity.
I've never heard of the Boyd Group, but their "analysis" is way off. Delays are most problematic at the terminal, not en-route. there are only so many runways, and no matter what you do to the en-route system, you're not going to have much more density of traffic on and off of the existing runways.
So who's to blame for the delays that start at the terminals? There is some government causation here, but it's not what you read in the article. Airlines have packed the schedules especially with more smaller aircraft. This consumes the *airport* or *runway* capacity especially at the airlines' peak morning and afternoon push. So how is it the gubmint's blame? If they auctioned off the peak slots and metered the arrivals and departures to what the system (runways) can absorb, then the delays would go away. Ticket prices would rise, but so be it - the current system has no market-clearing mechanism for a scarse resource.
While there are warts on the en-route ATC system, it is not the root of the problem.
Well #1 and #5 have their fans here. The culprits come slinking out of their holes to chime in and spam FR with pontifications on how the mortgage, real estate and credit crisis will all lead to a downfall of the US econonmy. How ChiCom supermen will take over the world with their bad haircuts and their particular accumen for making $1.69 straw brooms will buy out our 3/1 ARMS and make us all serfs. Conservatives have their miserable envious cranks also and #1 and #5 in particular seems to bring those bottom feeders out in droves here.
MSM idiots.
Except when there is a ‘RAT in the White House.
Then everything is reversed.
No, but in some neighborhoods as many as 15% of the homeowners are.
No, it is definately not in recession. It likely will skip right over that phase and straight into a depression. I am not optimistic.
Mythbusters should put the media on their show.