Why our country is dying

[ocean_314]

Originally Posted by Mattedhead

Are top of the line business clothes somehow more prone to taking up space than the lower tier business clothes?

And yes I can agree with you on one thing...I will not fly united unless I have to. I have flown overseas with them 3 times and each time I landed without my luggage...sometimes on both sides of the trip, and nearly always at O'Hare. The only airline I dislike more is Continental...it is most convenient that these two are in bed together now.

For a woman? Top of the line business clothes have to be laid flat, they can not get wrinkled as they have to be pressed at a dry cleaners.

Now after the deal is done when she has to fly on the clients dime, her regualr work clothes can be in a carry on, United Airlines is the worst.

[fishouttawatta]

Originally Posted by jackpine savage

Is nanny really the right analogy. I always thought of government as a big, juicy tit to be sucked upon.

Typical american. Pull up your greedy mouth to the government tit that is just dripping with everyone else's money. F it if they run our country into the ground just as long as you get yours right?

Originally Posted by Bill McIntyre

I don't suppose either you or your echo, fishouttawatta, would care to address my comments on the difference between United and Southwest? Of course that doesn't fit into your memorized anti-union spiel. But just in case you really are that ignorant about one of the greatest Amercan business successes, Maybe its not a coincidence that Southwest was named the Best Place to Work in America while also having a great reputation for service. Kelleher may have been even better than you at managing a company, and it made a difference.

So now I'm ocean's echo? even though this is the one and only instance i have ever agreed with him?!?! And of course if anybody disagrees with you then they have a "memorized union spiel".... Your tactics are childish for a 70 year old.

The difference between the two is management and environment and Southwest has seen success DESPITE unions, not the other way around. If Southwests customer service is know as "excellent" our country is F'ed. We have become so accustomed to absolute crap service that even a hardly mediocre experience and we rant and rave like they gave us head. Southwest is TERRIBLE but cheap so we accept it. I have had just as many problems with lost bags, cancelled flights, overbooked flights, delayed flights missed connections etc. flying them as I have with any other airline in the US. The only reason they have remained profitable is they cut out every single amenity that makes a flight a semi decent experience. Now you have to pay extra for anything and you don't even get peanuts. Part of the reason we have to pay extra for bags or $5 for a beer is the extra costs brought on by terroristic union negotiation tactics and the higher wages they demand. If a company is run by decent management and offers a competitive wage and benefits package, then what benefit to your business is a unionized labor force? There is a reason they are dying out and businesses fight unions.

[jackpine savage]

Easy Alice, I pay a boat load in taxes and run my own business. I have no doubt I pay far more in taxes than I will ever see in government services. My comment is called sarcasm but that apparently escapes you. While I pay a lot in taxes I have no problem with how much I pay. I have issues over how it's spent but that is a whole different discussion.