Pilot's Political Orientation

Jason Peterson wrote:
The local small airport near me was bought by the government to stop it from
being bought by a home builder. Now tell me that it is the free market at
work there. The land is worth millions, but the government wants to keep it
an airport. I guess government spending is not so bad after all!!!

Free markets are a good in a great many ways, but they are far from
perfect. Basic infrastructure is one area where they fall down. If we
only got roads and bridges from a free market economy, you would only
have paved roads between major urban centers and nothing in the country.
Likewise with power and communication services. Same with airports.
Another area where free markets would fail us would be pollution.

Government involvement is necessary in certain areas, but I believe we
have moved beyond those areas and that is the problem.


Matt

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

Am I? The last figures I saw had user fees covering about 85% of these

costs. Am I wrong?

Most of it comes from taxes on airline tickets.

The average G/A guy who flys a Cessna 182 100 hours a year doesn't begin to
pay for the system.

wrote:

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

Am I? The last figures I saw had user fees covering about 85% of these


costs. Am I wrong?


Most of it comes from taxes on airline tickets.

The average G/A guy who flys a Cessna 182 100 hours a year doesn't begin to
pay for the system.


But he doesn't need much of the system either. He needs a few grass
runways, and a good map and compass! :-)


Matt

You mean there is a difference between Democrats and Republicans besides
which state the accent is from?


"Chicken Bone" wrote in
news.com:

Flightinfo.com asked for pilots political orientation.

Results:

Democrat 22.97%
Republican 57.24%
Ind. 19.79%

http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthr...threadid=21699

Correct. They want to just take other peoples assets and keep them.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in
ink.net:


"Peter Gottlieb" wrote in message
et...

And the "conservatives" are different, how?


Conservatives don't want to take other peoples assets and redistribute
them.

in article . net, Steven P.
McNicoll at wrote on 4/17/04 4:34 AM:


"Pete" wrote in message
.com...

No, they want to tell you what you can and can't do in your
bedroom, and with your own body. They want to tell you who
you can marry, demand you go to church, but then you catch
them in a motel room doin' what they said not to do.

Conservatives are a bunch of lying liars.


You've bought the propaganda.

The basic difference between conservatives and liberals is their position on
freedom. Conservatives are fer it, liberals are agin' it.

I notice that Rush Limbaugh hasn't objected too strongly to the ACLU leaping
to his defense.

Then again, he may be high. lol

in article et, Steven P.
McNicoll at wrote on 4/16/04 10:04 PM:


"Peter Gottlieb" wrote in message
et...

And the "conservatives" are different, how?


Conservatives don't want to take other peoples assets and redistribute them.

Errr, then explain again how we're financing the current war?

in article , Dan Truesdell at
wrote on 4/16/04 6:32 PM:

I don't feel guilty. I feel fortunate. And I look at the whole
picture. I've worked hard to get a degree, develop a career, and have a
comfortable lifestyle (that fortunately includes a plane). However, I
also recognize that, due to the fact I grew up in a poor family in a
poor town, you all paid for half my college education. (I paid the
other half.) Thank you! That "Robin hood Government" you speak of took
a small piece of your hard earned money and invested it in me. Guess
what? I paid more in taxes last year than I received in 4 years of
financial aid. Sounds like a good investment to me. What did you get
for your money? A very productive member of society who recognizes
that, thanks to a government that believes that an educated populous is
critical, I am able to visit a doctor when I need one. And get a
plumber when I need one. DO you think that the oft-touted "Free Market
Economy" will generate all of the necessary services we all need and
use? Not likely. Only the ones that are profitable. Think of that the
next time you visit a government educated doctor. Or the next time you
kid goes to a government funded school. Or the factory in your town is
kept from dumping toxic waste in your backyard because a government
funded EPA official keeps them from doing it. I realize that there is
certainly waste in government, but let's keep the whole picture in mind.

Wow, a bit of calm, rational sense. Thank you.

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:34:05 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


"Pete" wrote in message
t.com...

Conservatives are a bunch of lying liars.

You've bought the propaganda.

Ha. No doubt about that. He's using Al Franken phrases, for goodness
sake.

Ricky

"Matthew S. Whiting" wrote:

The average G/A guy who flys a Cessna 182 100 hours a year doesn't begin to
pay for the system.


But he doesn't need much of the system either. He needs a few grass
runways, and a good map and compass! :-)

Matt

Well, although that may be true for you, there are lots of Cessna 182's that make
a lot of instrument approaches at airports with control towers. Or, even
instrument approaches at airports without control towers; all supported by center
equipment, controllers, FAA approach designers, expensive flight inspections,
etc., etc.