"B.H. Lazard" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Why do you call it a "horrible finish". Nobody got hurt and we got to
see
a
cool ejection sequence!!

You forgot the little smiley thingy. :-)

But assuming you're not joking, for a moment, there a zillion reasons to
call it a horrible finish. Hell, just from a taxpayer's standpoint I'm
****ed that we're out $20 million because the guy couldn't set his
altimeter
correctly.

I am not perturbed by a pilot making an honest mistake and wasting a $20
million airplane. That's a cost of 8 cents per person. There are a bunch
of
thieves running the country, deliberately giving your money to corporate
interests. Now THAT is something to be worried about.

Are you saying that the government should not buy things from corporations?
They bought that jet from a corporation. They bought its fuel from a
corporation. They bought its replacement from a corporation. They buy spare
parts for it from corporations. They also bought the pilot's flight suit,
helmet, oxygen hose, ejection seat, and even socks from corporations. It is
hard to imagine who the government would buy things like that from if not
corporations.

Or do you just have it in for certain corporate interests?

Really, I can understand being upset if the government pays too much for
stuff, but being upset simply because the government buys things from
corporations is simply childish. It evidences an extreme form of bigotry and
tremendous ignorance.

Who do you think owns corporations, anyway? Are you claiming that you have
never owned a share of stock, never bought insurance from a mutual fund,
never had a pension plan, never invested in a retirement account, never
deposited money in a bank or credit union, etc.? Because if you have done
any of those things, you have been an owner of those "corporate interests."

Really, if you want to get rid of corporations, you will have to return to a
pre-corporate economy -- basically an agrarian self sufficiency completely
incapable of producing airplanes of any kind, or much of anything else, for
that matter. Even communist economies are heavily dependent on corporations.
Trade would consist of whatever individuals could produce themselves and
distributed through local street fairs or something. It certainly would
increase the disparity between rich and poor and probably encourage the
re-introduction of slavery. The economy would be so anemic that billions of
people would starve to death, die of exposure, or be killed in ravaging
plagues.

Everything you see, touch, use, eat, wear or live in was probably produced
by a corporation and could be produced in no other way.