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I retired as a 777 captain. Almost everyone who flies tactical airplanes gets out and does the airline thing. Way more money, time off and no long deployments.

I have no idea what you mean or intend, but having thousands of hours in the A7E, and doing the Topgun Pacific Fleet Adversary thing for a couple of years, as well as fighting against the F-18 hundreds of times, I stand by what I said.

Really? I have 2000 hours in the A7E. Two cruises to Westpac in it. 300+ traps and every conceivable mission. I love the airplane. The capability of that airplane never came close to the F-18 in the air to air arena, I would love to talk to anyone who claims otherwise, but such an individual does not exist.

OK. Not sure where that comes from, but nothing surprises me here. I have flown with the F-14 countless times in carrier airwing strikes, and against it countless times as an adversary. I am extremely familiar with it, and it's weapons system. There was nothing I enjoyed more than fighting an F-14, but you believe what you want. Not my interest or issue.

Good luck on your aviation wishes. I flew against the F-14 tons of times, as a Pacific Fleet Adversary. The F-18 was multitudes better. Topgun is a cool move, but I never had any serious problem beating the F-14 in a close in "knife fight." Ever. It was designed and employed as a beyond visual range Phoenix missile launcher. I loved fighting it. Two turns and you had it. The FAA screwed up allowing visual operations along the final of runway 33 with civilian ops, who are not as good at looking outside.

Not sure what you are suggesting here, but the accidents are completely unrelated. If you have a point to dispute that, make it.

Really not a fan of Trump on this. It seems to me that he is more interested in getting recognition for a silly and ill advised campaign promise than choosing the best long term solution. Throwing a life preserver to Putin is a long term mistake. Not too long term, maybe a few years, but not a good idea. Squish the roach, along with the on life support Iranian regime.

Is there an actual competition on being world class stupid here? Trump fired exactly zero air traffic controllers. Zero. I wonder how someone could be stupid enough to make that claim, but I'm no longer surprised by what gets posted here. Buttigieg was a fiasco. And by the way, controllers have nothing to do with planes "falling our of the sky," per your idiotic claim that never happened anyway. Pilots do.

Among those who are familiar with this stuff, he was an undisputed failure. As he tries to resuscitate his failed political career, a strategy of claiming to have run the DOT well is ludicrous.

You are absolutely incapable of processing basic information in English sentence structure. I have absolutely never said that people fired from the VA were lazy, and there isn't a singly person who would ever consider me lazy. You are so corrupted by hatred that you have become totally irrational.

I heard some info today that the Social Security folks have about 3.5 million people between 120 and 130 years old, 3.6 million between 130 and 140, and lots more well above that, including a thousand or so well over 200 years old. No need for an independent look at that. Nah, just let 'em be and keep paying.

Pointless to expect any rational exchange. Trump did it as a real estate mogul in NY.

MCAS was well on its way prior to Trump. Further, I doubt you have any idea how certification is done, how competent Boeing or other aircraft manufacturers are, or their capabilities, or the test process prior to certification. How many US 737's have succumbed to MCAS? None. Know why? This crazy vector on this forum of assigning any degree of blame for this recent spate of incidents is bizarre and unjustified. The antiquated FAA air traffic control system should have been addressed years ago, and certainly under the four years of Buttigieg. No. He was too busy forcing adult professionals to attend pronoun training and changing the decades old lexicon to get the phrase man out of everything. Total waste, and despised by all with a stake. Just horrible.

More idiocy. I don't have any idea who is doing nothing. I simply expressed my viewpoint that if there isn't productivity from people, we shouldn't be forced to pay for them, and it happens all the time in the gov. Second, claiming that you know anybody, let alone Trump, is laughing at people hurt in an accident puts you at a new level. Just crazy assed, unbridled, irrational hatred.

More nonsense. The 737 Max issue was related to a system called MCAS. That system was in development well before Trump. The entire 737 issue goes deeper than any single administration and is completely based on money. Absolutely not Trump related. Want a clue? Here's one.........Southwest.

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Absolutely nothing to do with this situation. No surprise.

A disgusting post, and you have no idea.

No. No interest at all. You are the one who brought that up, but truth be told, I have done this trade over twenty times. But, you miss the point, if the discussion digresses to trading. It doesn't matter what a five year chart is. If you want to hold something, like ATT for instance, or a buy it and go fishing trade, so be it. Volatile stocks in emerging technologies present opportunities on both sides. I do that, and I like doing that.

I have absolutely no interest in what you speculate about my trades, and you have no idea. Emerging technologies lead to volatile, speculative trades. The overarching point, absent the trading aspect, which will fund college educations, is that we have no need to import foreign energy sources, unless we want to. End.

I have no interest in what you think about what I do. None. You don't have any idea about my timing. What I will say is that when you have an emerging technology that is delivering, people get interested. That interest leads to speculation. That speculation leads to trading opportunities, as the prices get speculative and more importantly, volatile. That speculative trading leads to opportunities in both the issue and its derivatives, ie., options. I love the technology. I really like the trading action.

Your entire post is absolute nonsense. You are in your own class of ignorance. Perhaps you don't actually read posts. I have never doubted that you cant comprehend them, but now I suspicious that you even read them, because nobody could be that stupid to post what you do. For those that do read, what I said was that I have no problem with getting rid of people who do nothing,

I am very cool will getting rid of people who do nothing, whether at the VA or the FAA. Like you.

More incredible, un researched nonsense. Does someone hand you this trash in the morning and direct you to post it?