http://www.suntimes.com/output/outdo...spt-out31.html


It sure made ME mad. The writer proclaims: "Forget the nonsense spieled by the
Meigs propagandists. Airplane owners earn significantly more than the median
income (about $20,000 more, as I figure)."

Whoa, nelly! The median income, which includes all the janitors and
burger-flippers in Chicago, is 20 grand lower than the income of the average
person who flies? We must all be employed, and manage our money responsibly so
that 20 grand is available to pay our bills and spend a little on flying. What
a bunch of undeserving pilot-heads.
I, for one, am a bottom-of-the-food-chain pilot who scrapes up 70 bucks before
I get to go fly for one hour, and joined EAA just so I could give rides to
kids. And I'd hoped to plan a flight to Meigs someday with my flying partner
to add it to the delightful destinations I've enjoyed, after my years of study
and practice.

This bozo could go to Cabela's gun room and pick out a $3000 shotgun, and spend
as much as some of us do on our entire training. He probably spends hundreds
of hours sitting in a deer stand or duck blind or fish house waiting to blast
away at some wildlife, but reckons I'm in the same league as Harrison Ford
because I'd like one island preserved for a landing strip instead of a smelly
host of tobacco-stained carp fishermen.

I'd rant on, but he doesn't have a "email to the editor" function.