Thanks, America!

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
In the same vein, a story about the Revolutionary war ...

General Washington took a squad of 24 soldiers and went out hunting the
British. After a week in the field, Corporal Peters was picked off by a
redcoat sharpshooter. The squad went on for another week and ran out of
food, water, and were thoroughly exhausted when they came upon this lovely
mansion along the side of the road with a red light out in front.

General Washington knocked on the door and explained to the madam that
they
were American soldiers that were hungry, thirsty, tired, and in need of
comfort. The madam smiled and asked General Washington how many soldiers
there were. He said, "Madam, there are 23 soldiers with me without
Peters".

The madam said, "You've got to be $#!tt!ng me!!!!!"


I hope you didn't stay up too late working up that one. :~

"Matt Barrow" wrote:
you're full of ****... Parasite... go play with yourself...
kiss my ass... ****-for-brains... go **** yourself... Scumbag!

Matt, people who've followed this forum for the past several years know that
I rarely indulge in a post whose content is primarily ad hominem.

However.

You have quickly established yourself here as an abusive, blustering
buffoon. With almost comic reliability, anything you say without citing a
source can be presumed false, and can usually be *shown* false with just a
brief effort at fact-checking--as you yourself could easily discover if you
bothered to verify what you say before you go ahead and say it. But you
*don't* bother, because your contempt for the truth is breathtaking--rivaled
only by your contempt for civility. You'll apparently say and believe almost
anything if you think it helps promote your venal, puerile, cultish
ideology.

Nonetheless, I stand ready at any time to engage you in serious, respectful
discussion on any issue we disagree about, should you be interested in such
an exchange. I'm not holding my breath though.

--Gary

Jay Honeck wrote:
Hope all of you across America (and overseas) are having a wonderful Fourth
of July. Mary and I are soon to be off to the annual parade, where we will
once again be representing our Inn by posing as "Amelia Earhart" and "Fred
Noonan"...

Don't get lost on the way to the parade. We may not be able to find you ;-)


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Skylune lives!!!

Well, Medicare is NOT a subsidy (unless you consider seniors to be a
special interest group, like private pilots), but I won't quibble that
there needs to be more cost effective solution.

As far as aid to Africa. I totally agree, no subsidies that will get
wasted by politically corrupt regimes: We have domestic issues at
home, and a fairly large (about 4.5% of GDP) budget deficit.

Of course, none of this means (logically) that GA should be subsidized
by taxpayers. Of course, logic and reason are in short supply here.
Most of you talk like you are political conservatives, but that is
complete BS because you WANT YOUR TAX SUBSIDIES!!! And you come up
with the most convoluted, tortured reasoning to justify it. Total
hyprcrisy. Right Dashing Dasher, you weak minded hypocrite (kitty).


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"skylunelives" wrote in
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Skylune lives!!!

lol...

Did someone complain to this idiot's ISP enough to get his news posting
privileges taken away? I hadn't noticed, of course. Funny he'd go out of
his way to find an alternative route for his useless rantings.

Oh well...I still have lots of room left in my killfile.

*plonk*

Well, Medicare is NOT a subsidy (unless you consider seniors to be a
special interest group, like private pilots), but I won't quibble that
there needs to be more cost effective solution.

Medicare is not a subsidy? What planet do you live on again?

At $530+ billion annually, it's the biggest subsidy of them all -- and it's
threatening to completely overwhelm the federal budget. In the next ten
years, it will -- unless drastic measures are taken.

As for airport subsidies, I suppose you have the same objections to the
interstate highway system? Or the Army Corps of Engineer's work on
waterways? How about Amtrak?

All of these transportation systems receive government subsidies, because
they are rightly seen as essential government services.

Are you advocating tollways for all motorists? If not, it is you, sir, who
are the hypocrite.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Idiot!!? LOL.

Of course the thin skinned, irrational pilots get upset when I shine a
light on the nature of your heavily taxpayer subsidized industry, and
then get me booted.

I monitor many sites, but only post under certain names because many of
you have brains that have been damaged by all the noise, rattling, etc.


And, trust me, it is no "trouble" at all to follow all of your inane
rantings on any website i choose, including i-pilot, student pilot, the
cessna site, etc.. Got to monitor what the opposition is doing, and
protect our communities and tax dollars from you flying socialists.

Yes, socialists: for all your disingenous talk of freedom and moaning
about liberal politicians just remember, you want taxpayers to
subsidize your hobby. It is an outrage, as is the total lack of
security at GA airports, the crashes that the NTSB pays to investigate
(several thousand investigations ongoing at all times -- this too is a
taxpayer subsidy), the corrupt nature of the FAA whose only mission is
to continously expand and support the industry, Phil Boyer (the
smirking punk), etc, etc.

I am a true conservative. I don't ask that my (boating, skiing,
hiking) hobbies be subsidized. I expect and am happy to pay full fare
(waiting for some moron to talk about the Coast Guard being a
subsidy...). Fly all you want, just don't make me pay for it (waiting
for the usual knuckleheads to equate Commercial aviaition with GA).

Be well. I am watching, voting, writing, and informing..... Call me
a troll if you wish. Most of you have the IQ of a snail, so I take it
from where it comes.

Good day, eh?


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Last thing Jay (who equates all federal spending with general taxpayer
subsidies that benefit a small minority): Norm Minetta gets it!!!

My regards, Dashing Dasher, who cannot win a debate and declares
himself "a hot stunt pilot." LOL.

Heeeere's Norm:


Remote towns may need to aid in airline subsidy
HEARING: Funds help keep prices down for 34 Alaska communities.

By RICHARD RICHTMYER
Anchorage Daily News

Published: July 6th, 2005
Last Modified: July 6th, 2005 at 02:34 AM


A 27-year-old federal subsidy for airlines that fly to remote
communities needs to be overhauled to catch up with changes in the
aviation industry, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said
Tuesday. The overhaul could include paring back the number of
communities eligible and making them bear some of the cost.


The Essential Air Service program, established in 1978, was one of
several topics discussed during a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee
hearing in Anchorage. Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, the committee chairman,
was the only senator at the hearing, which lasted just over an hour and
half and included testimony from Mineta, FAA Administrator Marion
Blakey as well as local aviation officials and experts.

The subsidy, established when the airline industry was deregulated in
1978, used federal money to lower air-travel costs to 34 Alaska
communities and 92 elsewhere in the country. Funding totals $102
million for this budget year. That's down from $113 million in 2003.

The program's aim is to provide a safety-net level of air service to
the smallest and most isolated communities. Given that air service
remains the only way in or out of many Alaska villages, the
Transportation Department regards them as a high priority, Mineta
said.

But the program hasn't kept pace with airport improvements and changes
in the way airlines fly, which calls for much-needed structural
changes, Mineta said.

Changes the Transportation Department is proposing include requiring
communities to kick in at least 10 percent of the subsidy.

"I am well aware that the proposed requirement of a local contribution
has not been well received by many," Mineta said. "But this is one of
the few federal programs that does not have any local contribution."

Under the Transportation Department's proposal, the amount local
communities would have to contribute toward the program would vary,
based on their proximity to the national transportation system.

Communities more than 210 miles from the nearest large or medium hub
airport would have to provide 10 percent. Those between 100 and 210
miles from a large or medium hub airport would have to provide 25
percent.


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Last thing Jay (who equates all federal spending with general taxpayer
subsidies that benefit a small minority)

Are you saying Medicare doesn't benefit a minority of Americans?

My regards, Dashing Dasher, who cannot win a debate and declares
himself "a hot stunt pilot." LOL.

???

Heeeere's Norm:

What's Mineta's statements against subsidizing airlines got to do with what
we're talking about?
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Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:lc2ze.142890$nG6.115534@attbi_s22...
Last thing Jay (who equates all federal spending with general taxpayer
subsidies that benefit a small minority)

Are you saying Medicare doesn't benefit a minority of Americans?

My regards, Dashing Dasher, who cannot win a debate and declares
himself "a hot stunt pilot." LOL.

???

Jay, don't reply to this person anymore. I'm putting him in my killfile and
so should you.

When you wrestle with a pig, you get very dirty. Problem is, the pig enjoys
it.

-Trent
PP-ASEL