Recent content by DavidWhite

I have a Benchmade CLA and I love it. Pricy, but you get what you pay for. I also sent a knife back to Benchmade that had been run over by a snow plow and they sent me what appeared to be a brand new knife back. Customer for life after that. As another endorsement for the CLA, I bought one for...

I carry a Leatherman and a Benchmade auto folder. I use one or the other every day; sometimes both.

RIP Sir. "Bury Us Upside Down" Is a great book featuring some of his exploits during the Vietnam war. He was a true American hero.

I think the only real assistance that AVIATE offers is an $18k stipend to get your private if you don’t have it already. Otherwise it’s just a flight school.

Hiring anyone based on anything other than their qualifications is absolutely ridiculous, especially for something as critical as pilots. Ron Schneider has a pretty good bit on this. I’d love to see the gender and race section go away completely on all apps. I have a friend who applied twice...

Apparently that particular pilot was quitted out of Atlas training, sued for discrimination, and was given a second chance to complete the course.

I think you suspect accurately.

On this we can agree wholeheartedly.

You mean "The father of capitalism"? The guy who would today be diagnosed with schizophrenia? Yes I am familiar with his "works". edit: I actually like a lot of what Adam Smith has to say, but the economic system he envisioned is not currently what we have implemented in the US. It would be...

Again, is McDonalds a necessity? Some reading comprehension may be in order.

So do I need to go through the entire New York Stock Exchange line by line? McDonalds is not the only corporation experiencing this phenomenon of increased net profit while squealing that they are having to increase prices due to the rising cost of labor.

Is McDonalds a necessity?

Corporations have figured out that the market will bear almost anything when it comes to necessities. The alternative is homelessness/malnutrition. The American dream is as dead as George Washington and we have no one to blame but Wall Street and corrupt politicians. It's not about party lines...

So if all the nice people that run these massive corporations are doing everything they can for us, the little people, then why are corporate profits (nearly across the board) soaring to record heights? Why do prices continue to rise? I agree with you that this inflation isn't transitory, but...

Okay so shouldn't prices be going down then?