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How Free Market Ideology Killed hundreds in American Airline Industry.

Discussion in 'Economics & Trade' started by Kyklos, Mar 13, 2019.

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  1. struth

    struth Well-Known Member

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    struth, Mar 14, 2019
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    TRFjr Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    what's wrong with choice?
    if I want to pay for a cheaper ticket and take on the slightly higher chance of an unsafe flight that should be my choice
     
    TRFjr, Mar 14, 2019
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  3. AZBob

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    So Taco Bell managers make more than $130,000 a year? Because that’s the median income of pilots in the US.
     
    AZBob, Mar 14, 2019
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    Then you and I differ in our views. I want to live in a country where I know that the airplanes are safe. Period. I don't think we should have to make a choice between price and safety. Not if I'm living in what is touted as 'the greatest nation on earth'.
     
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    Sage3030, Mar 14, 2019
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    They must be "democratic socialists".....lolz!
     
    doombug, Mar 14, 2019
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  7. AZBob

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    Way to drama it up.
    You know how many aviation accidents have happened in this country?
    Around 240.
    Do you know when the first commercial airline started in this country?
    1914
    Do you know how many commercial airline flights there are in this country per day?
    Since 2013, it’s been over 100,000 on average.

    Just stop already.
     
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  8. Kyklos

    Kyklos Well-Known Member Donor

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    Nice fascist flag, Polydictes.:gop:
     
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  9. Kyklos

    Kyklos Well-Known Member Donor

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    Yes, that's problem...regulators...if they continued to ignore the Alaska Airline jackscrew maintenance schedule, the accident never would of happened.
     
    Kyklos, Mar 14, 2019
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    Kyklos Well-Known Member Donor

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    Yes, the dead in the Alaska Airline crash are really happy with the savings they made. Can't argue with a happy customer can we.
     
    Kyklos, Mar 14, 2019
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    Kyklos Well-Known Member Donor

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    I am sure the dead and their family take comfort in your statistics.
     
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    I doubt they are...but they were free to make the choice they did. That's what freedom is all about. There are risk in every day life. If you want to live a completely safe, controlled life....go to prison
     
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    Facts are facts. All you had was some nonsense emotional outburst, disguised as relevance.
     
    AZBob, Mar 14, 2019
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    The "point" you made in your thread title was a complete miss, but it makes for wonderful anti-free market/free enterprise propaganda, doesn't it? :roll:
     
    Talon, Mar 14, 2019
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    About 1,000,000 times safer than if you're on the same road as Mrs. BB. :(
     
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    if you want to fly on a known safe airline then best you check that airlines safety record and probably pay more for the ticket
    your problem solved
    you see that is how the free market works some airlines will opt to be the safest choice charge a little more but have a good safety record so to attract those consumers that safety is a priority
    and some airlines will opt to be the economy choice and will sacrifice not as good of a safety record for the consumer looking for the cheapest ticket
     
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    Honey, pushing a pencil around on a gov't form does not make anyone safer if someone is inclined to cheat like in the crash of ValuJet 592.
     
    BaghdadBob, Mar 14, 2019
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    TRFjr Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    typical liberal response when they have no counter to the facts the truth to reality
    play on emotion
     
    TRFjr, Mar 14, 2019
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    The left wanted the airlines deregulated so the “common people” (the lower class) could fly. They didn’t like it under regulation when only Republicans could fly.
     
    Texas Republican, Mar 14, 2019
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    Lol is fascism?:roflol:
     
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    China isn't communist?
     
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    Anyone who isn't a communist is a fascist. Thats how it works now.
     
    US Conservative, Mar 14, 2019
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  23. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    It seems like anybody who doesn't agree with me is there for fascist.
     
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    Thats the current democrat party play.
     
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    Thread goes down in flames faster than the worst plane crash in history... starts ignorantly "fascist hollering" user's avatars.

    Yep. Leftist.

    To the topic, already destroyed by other posters, a rare thread when I don't have to add anything.
     
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