The Other America
I spent three interesting months in the U.S between April and the end of June. I was last there in 1992. Post 9/11 there are a lot more American flags around on houses, buses, trains etc and my experiences of airline workers in particular was that they are much more stressed. One pilot I spoke to told me he had taken a $ 75,000 pay cut in one year last year, the justification being less people travelling post 9/11. Retirement could not come quick enough for the older pilots. In California, Big Arnie has united public sector workers in opposition to him and his policies. Lacking the guile of...